Neat trick to repair O-Rings

[pro10is]

Years ago I was at an auto show. A vendor there was selling cyanoacrylate (i.e. "super glue"). He was selling high concentrate cyanoacrylate not usually sold to the general public because it can glue skin even faster and harder than regular super glue. He was putting on quite a demo showing uses for it I never knew about. One thing he was doing was cutting an o-ring and then gluing it back together. He'd then hand the o-ring to you and ask you to pull it apart. It would break but never at the glued area. Neat trick. Well the other day I was installing the BRP Billet Rear Axel Cap Kit. It uses an o-ring as a friction mount to hold the billet cap on. Of course the very thin o-ring broke and I didn't have another but I did have a bottle of Locktite professional strength super glue. Well the trick worked, it glued the o-ring back together perfectly. I never like super glue much but for once it saved the day. I wouldn't use it on a critical o-ring but for this purpose it did the trick.

 

[ulflyer]

Pro10is..........thanks for tip....I'd never have thought of doing that.

 

[Ga Blue Knight]

Not to hijack the thread but once I cut my thumb really badly andnwentmto the emergency room. Instead of stitches they used high tensile strength superglue and glued my thumb back together. It healed fine. I now carry some in my bike medical kit, just in case.

 

[NancysToy]

Not to hijack the thread but once I cut my thumb really badly andnwentmto the emergency room. Instead of stitches they used high tensile strength superglue and glued my thumb back together. It healed fine. I now carry some in my bike medical kit, just in case.

The difference is that the medical superglue is sterile. I have done the same thing when I cut myself, but it can cause an infection. Between staples and superglue, nobody gets many stitches anymore.

 

[epiphysis]

not true, Nancy....I recently stitched a friend up!!!! depends on the person fixing the cut!!!!