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Re: I shoulda gotta patent.
By:Mark Kanzler
Date: 5/4/1998, 3:49 pm
In Response To: fast epoxy for gluing strips (Paul Jacobson)

I have used superglue as a bandage. When you're in a hurry it makes a quick and durable replacement for skin. It contains a form of cyanide, which I wonder about, but I discovered it by accident while building models.

>Baxter International Inc. won Food and Drug Administration clearance to
> sell the first fibrin sealant approved in the U.S. to help stop bleeding.
> Baxter's Tisseel is a kind of biological glue. It mimics the body's natural
> process in blood clotting The technology long has been used in Europe and
> even in some cases in the U.S., where doctors literally mixed up their own
> versions using variations of superglue.

> I guess you could spread this stuff on one strip and sweat (or
> bleed) on the other to get enough moisture to activate it. I did not
> see any comments on whether this stuff is compatible with being encapuslated
> in epoxy.

Messages In This Thread

Re: Gluing the strips
Nick Schade -- 4/30/1998, 7:42 pm
Re: Gluing the strips
Don Beale -- 5/1/1998, 11:55 am
Re: Gluing the strips
Paul Jacobson -- 5/4/1998, 12:58 pm
Re: Gluing the strips
Mark Kanzler -- 5/5/1998, 11:40 am
Re: Gluing the strips
Mark Kanzler -- 5/5/1998, 1:09 pm
Re: Gluing the strips
Mark Kanzler -- 5/6/1998, 12:59 am
Re: How about this...
Don Kerr -- 5/5/1998, 1:35 am
Re: How about this...
Nick Schade -- 5/5/1998, 5:13 pm
Re: How about this...
Mark Kanzler -- 5/5/1998, 6:06 pm
Re: Gluing the strips
Nick Schade -- 5/2/1998, 10:53 pm
fast epoxy for gluing strips
Paul Jacobson -- 5/2/1998, 12:11 pm
Re: I shoulda gotta patent.
Mark Kanzler -- 5/4/1998, 3:49 pm
Re: Gluing the strips
Mark Kanzler -- 5/2/1998, 12:15 am
Re: Gluing the strips
NPenney -- 5/1/1998, 6:40 am