Since I am the Official Keeper of the Household Adhesives, I have a small stash of Crazy Glue in my office. I seem to be Crazy Glue Challenged, so I rarely use it. Jack doesn’t seem to have the problems that I do with it. Each time I try to crazy glue something, I end up with it all over my fingers, and frequently without even having fixed the item that I was attempting to repair.
This time, my goal was to stick a pin back to a pedometer since the clip had broken. The contents of the tube exploded as I punched a hole in the end. (This may have been a result of the altitude. A lot of things packaged at sea-level expand at 7200 feet.) I frantically wiped the glue off the items on my desk with a paper towel, and transferred a great deal of it to my hands. I then attempted to fix the pin back to the pedometer, and succeeded in gluing the item to the desktop instead. At that point, I gave up, and went and sat in the corner. I would have sucked on my thumb but it was covered with Crazy Glue.
I knew from past experience (lots) that Crazy Glue would wear off in a day or two, as the skin cells shed off my fingers, but decided to use Google and see if there was a quicker way to rid myself of it. At How to Clean Anything, I learned that Crazy Glue can be removed by finger nail polish remover or acetone, its active ingredient. I keep acetone on hand to transfer laser jet printing for my eraser carving, and sure enough, it works like a charm to get rid of that unique dead skin feeling.
I threw away the pedometer after I pried it off the desktop. I can’t face taking its mangled little corpse back for a refund at this point.
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March 11th, 2005 at 6:06 am
*chuckling* The smell alone keeps me away from it!
March 18th, 2005 at 3:56 pm
Been there, done that! I don’t keep it in the house anymore since I usually end up gluing myself to the tube!
December 3rd, 2005 at 1:33 pm
My tube just exploded all over my hand. Acetone only removed a bit. Help!!!
December 16th, 2005 at 11:48 am
My bottle just leaked all over my fingers, and I did a search and came to this page. This is the first time I read anything useful on a blog. Thanks!
December 27th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
I just used acetone to get it off my wifes index and thumb. she got it all over her hands and her fingers were stuck to the tube. Thanks!
January 18th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
I Wish I had used disposable gloves .
I tried nail polish remover and other things…….nothing worked all that well….some still remains. I like it better than Super Glue.
January 29th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
….what linux said. thank you
February 2nd, 2006 at 1:10 pm
Wow!! Same thing just happened to me. Trying to fix a little 50 cent nik-nak from mexico and ended up with a tube exploding all over both hands. I figured Nail polish remover would work but it did a poor job. I am back in the office now and my hands look like I have some sort of disease. Can you buy pure acetone?
~d
February 19th, 2006 at 10:53 am
Use nail polish remover with a file or heavy duty scrub brush. Worked like a charm, although I am not going to be a hand model anytime soon.
February 26th, 2006 at 9:42 am
Krazy glue is aptly named.
I’m using an exacto knife and my teeth. I’ve already thrown the stuff out.
March 9th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Thanks for the advice… very helpful… we are trying to removal our hands that are glued to a snowboard binding….
March 24th, 2006 at 9:44 am
Husband just glued himself yesterday, and today I found in a flyer an ad for a new keazy Glue that takes longer to bond to skin, to be able to go back in time and buy it…. The whole incident gave us a lot of laughs, oh and the item he was gluing is glued too well, the switch is now glued in place. Oops
July 11th, 2006 at 4:16 am
Where can I buy some of this stuff? I live in the UK.
November 7th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
I tried warm water and it didn’t work. I just soaked my fingers in some nail polish remover. All I was trying to do was open the damn thing. I poked the little aluminum seal and it went all over the place. The nail polish remover helps me peel off some of my skin. >.
November 17th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
I hate krazy glue. It never works like it promises to. It’s just junk.
December 17th, 2006 at 10:01 am
The last time I bought Krazy Glue, I found it in a bottle with a brush, similar to bottles of white out. It works great, and no glue anywhere except where you want it. Plus, it doesn’t dry out after one use or glue the cap on so it can’t ever be used again.
January 24th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
I know how to remove crazy glue from the skin with a acetone but will that ruin my kitchen counter?
March 4th, 2007 at 12:57 am
Yikes.. just crazy glued and it exploxed all over my hands…thankfully all digits are intact- but no acetone in home; Must get somet tomorrow. My hands are covered… what is with this stuff!
March 11th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
thanks a billion, its got all over my step-dad
April 29th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I just found you blog on the web. Apparently, your method is working great. I cleaned up my crazy glue mess on my table. Thanks a million.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:38 pm
if you glue your fingers or any other part of your body together with crazy glue, place a pencil in between the two glued surfaces and slide it thru the glued area.
the glue has excellent shear and pull strength but no peel strength
December 14th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
i hate krazy glue i am suing the fucks that made it tommorow is my wedding day and my hands are covered with krazy glue and popcorn kernels ( dont ask)
December 20th, 2007 at 12:52 am
An emery board rubbed on the areas of skin will take it off with no ill effects. It make take a little while, but the results are great.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Sand paper (I used coarse) along with nail polish remover (acetone) worked for me. The acetone by itself wasn’t really working, so I put some on a sheet of sand paper and rubbed my finger{s) on it. Because the acetone evaporates pretty quickly you may have to apply more. It didn’t take long at all. Yay!