Limiting amount of CA or Thin cement

I use photo-etched applicators. And I also bought a bunch of different ones. After use, I anneal it with a lighter. I apply a drop of glue to plastic bottle caps (if you need a little) or to medicine blisters, of which I have a lot.

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Step outside and use a lighter, works pretty good too, same thing I do w my GluLoopers. I stress step outside and stay upwind as the fumes are pretty toxi, hold well away from your face etc.

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Being a retired crime scene tech, I used super glue fumes to find latent prints on objects. Works fantastic, but the fumes can glue your contact lenses to your eyeballs. Don’t ask me how I know

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OUCH!!
I’ve heard about fingers getting glued to eyeballs (glue on finger, need to remove foreign object from eye …) but this was new.

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Honestly, I was able to get away from the fumes before it firmly set on my contacts. I could feel the super glue holding the contacts to my eyeballs and quickly backed out and tore out the contact lenses before it got fully set. Lesson learned, don’t stand with your head over the object you are fuming.

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