Quick question: When will my cyanoacrylate glue dry?

widmer · 04/27/2008, 11:07 PM

Hey-

I just glued some PVC fittings onto the pipes with some cyanoacrylate super glue I bought, when do you suppose I can count on it to be dry? 1 hour? 24 hours?

I'm just curious because I just filled up a new tank that's going to be a reef (yay!) but my DIY overflow has a super super tiny leak, maybe a drop per hour? I'd like to go to bed and sleep easy, so I want to start up the pump that will be pumping water back from the refugium, But that means my superglue needs to dry....

Thanks!

plyr58 · 04/27/2008, 11:08 PM

why did you use super glue instead of plumbing glue?

widmer · 04/27/2008, 11:12 PM

Well the cyanoacrylate was what I had lying around, I knew it was reef safe, and I had FANTASTIC results when I had to glue some plastic to some glass in another application...

This stuff does dry underwater doesn't it? I could have sworn I have heard of people using it to glue frags down...

corals b 4 bills · 04/27/2008, 11:54 PM

Do you have gum?

widmer · 04/28/2008, 12:33 AM

lol thank you for your contribution. In case anyone was on the edge of their seat, I've got the sump up and running, and its working great. Who knows, if I hadn't gotten it going the drip might have drained the entire aquarium in ten years. Can't wait till I've got the corals in...

04/27/2008, 11:07 PM	#1
widmer Drug Enthusiast Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Rochester, MN Posts: 2,958	Quick question: When will my cyanoacrylate glue dry? Hey- I just glued some PVC fittings onto the pipes with some cyanoacrylate super glue I bought, when do you suppose I can count on it to be dry? 1 hour? 24 hours? I'm just curious because I just filled up a new tank that's going to be a reef (yay!) but my DIY overflow has a super super tiny leak, maybe a drop per hour? I'd like to go to bed and sleep easy, so I want to start up the pump that will be pumping water back from the refugium, But that means my superglue needs to dry.... Thanks!

04/27/2008, 11:54 PM	#4
corals b 4 bills Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Belmont). Posts: 2,381	Do you have gum? __________________ Reefkeeper - (ref-ke-per) n: Individual obsessed with placing disturbing amounts of electricity and seawater in close proximity for the purpose of maintaining live coral reef organisms. Current Tank Info: 29 gallon Bio Cube, HQI 150 watt Nanotuner~Vortech MP10W ES~Arctica Chiller~AC II~Tunze Osmolator ATO~ Tunze 9002 skimmer W/In Tank Cup~ Korallin Reactor W/PH Monitor~ Korallin Denitrator~APC Back-up~Phosban/Carbon Reactor.

04/27/2008, 11:08 PM	#2
plyr58 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 747	why did you use super glue instead of plumbing glue?

04/27/2008, 11:12 PM	#3
widmer Drug Enthusiast Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Rochester, MN Posts: 2,958	Well the cyanoacrylate was what I had lying around, I knew it was reef safe, and I had FANTASTIC results when I had to glue some plastic to some glass in another application... This stuff does dry underwater doesn't it? I could have sworn I have heard of people using it to glue frags down...

04/28/2008, 12:33 AM	#5
widmer Drug Enthusiast Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Rochester, MN Posts: 2,958	lol thank you for your contribution. In case anyone was on the edge of their seat, I've got the sump up and running, and its working great. Who knows, if I hadn't gotten it going the drip might have drained the entire aquarium in ten years. Can't wait till I've got the corals in...