Anyone else have problems with the spout drying shut 3/4 the way down so you can no longer use the glue with any kind of precision.


I swear, I am about to throw two bottles that are both 99% full in the trash.

A bottle with disposable tips would be so much better. you could leave the odl tip on the bottle until you were ready to use it again, then just put on a new tip, and throw away the old one!

Epoxy here i come!!!

Take your bottle and tap the base of it on your work bench after you use it and get the glue out of the spout. You can disolve ca glue with acetone so soak your spouts in some. You can heat a needle and stick down the spout but DON"T BREATH THE SMOKE. I use a small dremel drill bit and just drill it out. I know alot of people don't use ths caps for the bottles once they open them. I know from experience you can store an UNOPENED bottle of ca glue for at least nine years in the freezer and it still be good when opened. Hope this helps you.

I had about 20 bottles I got from military surplus, I've got two left. I used to make alot of pens but I haven't made any in a few years. I use to take the perfume pen kits and modify them and make tooth pick holders, man I sold alot of them. If you give swmbo a little of the profit they are a little more recptive. Hey she even bought me a few kits one time. I had a place here in town that would lased ingrave the pens and I made custom boxes and had people's names lasered onto the top, if you do it upside down then while setting on a desk with the lid open it is a name plate. It looked pretty cool. I had some router jigs I made for the boxes.

Thats pretty much the same thing i got from the manufacturer's website.


I understand the concept of glue, and even instant glue.


I build alot of model cars, and the glue for these cars is activated simply by air. The makers of the glue dealt with the same problem with awesome results. cheap, removable tips that dry up and act as a lid until you need the glue again. then you simply pop the old clogged tip off, and apply a new clean tip and go to work.

It seems the CA glue manufacturers would rather just tell us why the problem happens as opposed to actually doing something about it. Luckily for me, I have learned early in my turning life how lousy their probuct actually is. I have switched to epoxy, and have no plans on going back to CA glue!

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That would be too easy!

I am sure it helps to store upside down, just make sure you have the cap on good and tight.  Believe it or not I have a bottle of 2 OZ CAthat the little cap is missing off of and has ben for almost 4 weeks and the glue is still good.  It is thin glue, I am wondering if the stuff you are having problems with is thin or thick stuff?

One of our club members never caps his CA, and he says that he has no problems with it. I have been to his shop, and there were four 2oz bottles of it on a shelf, without caps. Maybe the spout openings are too narrow to cause a problem??
I do cap mine, but first I let it set for a few minutes to let the spout drain down into the bottle (so no blockages). Soaking in Acetone will fix plugged spouts if needed.

As usual, when i post here, I learn a ton about whatever it is I am posting about!!! you guys are some of the most knowledgeable (sp?) people I have ever known. Thanks guys!! maybe i won't give up on CA glue just yet!!