Satellite City Super T Medium Instant CA Glue, 2oz HST-4

Perfect. Exactly what I needed to build this balsa wood airplane.

Like most Satellite City customers, I use this glue for producing a fine finish on woodwork. The glue is great! It produces a tight bond, cures quickly, and is crystal clear. It responds well to the aerosol accelerator that I use, and the adhesive properties aren't affected by the boiled linseed oil that I apply to my work before applying the glue. It sands and polishes to a perfectly clear, glasslike coating. The bottle seals well, and although I do not use the product but once a week or so, I feel that I will be able to use all of this glue before it sets in the bottle and becomes unusable. This has happened with several other brands. The tip has not once clogged. I wipe it down after use, and it has not ever bonded to the cap. It is all around a great product. If I had to make a change, I would rename the product with something more intuitive than "Super T." I don't know what the hell that is. The only clue that there is medium CA in this bottle is the tiny words "gap filling" on the label. How about taking the guesswork out by just calling it "medium thickness?" Odd name aside, the Satellite City glues are the best that I've used--and I've used a lot of different brands. It's not the cheapest brand available, but it's already outlasted the longevity of other brands many times over. If paying a little more means that I don't have to throw half of the product away, then that's an easy call to make.

I bought this after attending a woodturning course. It works great for fastening on a bowl blank to a wooden face plate, for repair of cracks or voids in wood burls and for general gluing when used with the proper accelerator. The biggest problem is that the nozzle clogs pretty often. It is possible to buy new tops/caps for them. You can also buy steel pins designed specifically for leaving in the hole at the applicator. My solution is to use a metal stick pin of the type that is used on bulletin boards. It gives you something to grab on to so you can pull it out of the hole. Some of the dried glue will go with the stickpin. Then I take a pliers and crush the glue which then just flakes off. Make sure that the glue is dried before you do this or you might just glue the pliers shut. As a note, I much prefer the Satellite City Accelerator to the Bob Smith Accelerator. The former goes on in an invisible mist and dries instantly. The Bob Smith Accelerator goes on wet with much overspray. It also does not seem to set as fast. I suspect that it takes much less of the Satellite City Accelerator.

While this glue didn't quite serve the purpose I ultimately wanted it to, it certainly was an improvement over what I had been using. I had been using Gorilla brand superglue to glue the brass tubing to the inside of pen blanks and while it worked it was a tedious chore to use. It was much too thin and it would run all over the place and get form layers of glue scab on my fingers. Not nice. I got the memo on using disposable gloves but it was still messy and it dried much too quick for my liking. I went a looking for a better solution and got my hands on a bottle of this stuff. Boy did my quality of life improve! It stays where you put it, has a less than instantaneous open time, more like 10 or so seconds, and when shoved into tight places it doesn't seem to spill out so much which I really do like. It also has much better gap filling properties. There are two reasons for me not giving it 5 stars. One, it doesn't have any special method to keep the tip from gluing shut whenever you use it. Currently I have it cut back to a point where it doesn't do this but I preferred the finer tip I had cut into it when it was new. The Gorilla CA glue bottle beats this one in that respect and while it may seem trivial I prefer not to have to fiddle with glue bottles when I could be getting work done. Second, and more importantly, it isn't quite strong enough for use on a pen blank in my opinion. Most of the time it isn't a problem but I'll always have that one blank that comes unstuck from its tubing, even having roughed that up with coarse abrasive, and I'll have to dismount my work and re-glue things to get them turning properly. I've been using a small drill press for boring holes that doesn't quite make it all the way to the bottom of a blank, so I have to re-drill from the other side introducing a little bit of slop that maybe make the glue less effective at what its doing. I think I'll try quick-set epoxy next. When I fix the situation with the drill press I'll probably come back and give this product another go and see if with accurately drilled holes it fairs better. Overall, I must say that the Hot Stuff Super T Medium CA Glue has more or less everything I was looking for in a CA glue and I'm satisfied with its performance. If I needed more CA glue I wouldn't hesitate to but this again.

- I saw this recommended on a couple of websites for Luthiers ((people who hand-craft guitars and other stringed instruments)). I'm working on making some kalimbas, which are not stringed, but are wooden, and are musical instruments, so there ya go ;) - The *quality* of this product is high, which is why I gave five stars. It's exactly as described, and seems to be to hold like, er, dare I say "crazy"? LOL! - For better or worse, I also do like that it's a US product and that the company helps our Veterans. - Interestingly, this does not seem to me to have much of a "smell", which I consider to be a good thing, since it indicates that the glue contains fewer volatile chemicals. - I do keep it in a tightly-closed jar with 2 dessicant packs ((10 grams total of silicon granules)), but not in the fridge, because I use it too often. It seems to still flow as it ought to, although the tip does clog a bit, probably because I only snipped off a tiny part of the tip so that the opening is *just barely* large enough for me to insert a slender pin. But that's the trade-off when one works on a small scale. - On the Plus side, all I have to do is give the pin a very slight twist and pull it out, and Presto!, there is glue flow ;) - I like that this sets rather slowly - it gives me time to make adjustments and be sure things are fitting together as I want them to. I'll eventually try mixing it with powdered substances ((I'll try wood bits first ;) )) for gap-filling and, with luck!, decoration, but I haven't yet gotten around to trying that. - I *personally* haven't adapted to using this glue, though, so I make sure I have my work surface covered, and sometimes I wear lightweight nitrile gloves. But all in all, this medium-thick consistency is MUCH preferable to me than the super-thin CA glues I've previously bought locally.

I have been using this glue mostly in woodworking for about 4 years. It is reliable, strong and fast setting. It is too expensive to use as a general wood glue but when gluing pieces of wood together, if you spread the regular wood glue and then space dots of the Super T and hold the pieces together for about 20 seconds, the Super T will set and effectively "clamp' the pieces allowing the regular glue to set. It will repair and join just about anything. I have glued stone to wood, plastic, ceramic, metal and used it to replace failed stitching on a leather wallet. I have not had that success with regular department store versions of "super glues". Warning - Do not use on anything that you don't want permanently joined!!! (However, it can be removed with the company's "Super Solvent)

When you saw super glue used on TV and movies the product always instantly glued things together. I mean putting super glue on the handle of a broken coffee cup then reattaching it and it almost instantly bonds, is bogus, right? Super glue takes time to set.. so in my experience, holding something while the glue sets wasn't reality. Putting "super glue" in someones shampoo and having their hands stick to their hair is totally fake. Again, that's with products generally sold as "super glue". The super glue never really was "super". With this glue, applying it, then pressing the to-be-glued parts together and having them actually bond, it a reality. Accidentally gluing your fingers to something can actually happen or god forbid, putting this into someones shampoo probably would be horribly effective. This glue is that instant and that good. This product should be called Super Glue. Tips for Use: Somehow, this glue gets even better when combined with the insta-set activator. it's amazing to watch it bond even faster. Also getting some Pro-Tips (PT-100) is a must have so you can be accurate in your application. I was speaking from experience when I mentioned gluing your fingers to something. If you over apply this, it can happen. I also keep a few Hot-Tip (HT-600) replacement tips around because the tip can clog easily. I build helicopters so I use glue almost daily. I've tried many brands and this one, with its size, it a great deal because 2oz is a crapload of glue.

I love hot stuff glue. Whether you are building a balsa airplane or a plastic model, this is the glue to use. The only complaint I have is the tip clogging frequently. They sell spare tips. You can bring the tip back to perfect condition by soaking it in acetone (fingernail polish remover). It will come out clean as new after a soak in acetone. Don't use on painted or clean styrene plastic. It will fog the joint and ruin the plastic. You might want to keep some debonder around just in case! LOL Have fun with your models!