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The World's Strongest Glue
missing_myself writes "Yahoo news reports the world's strongest glue is made by bacteria. "The adhesive can withstand an enormous amount of stress, equal to the force felt by a quarter with more than three cars piled on top of it." Time to get rid of the duct tape? "
I recall (from my Dungeons n dragons times) that there was some kind of super-glue and some kind of super-oil. You needed the super-oil to apply it into the superglue bottle so it wouldn't stick.
Taking into account that the researchers are having problems with getting the glue off the instruments they use to fabricate it, perhaps we do need a super-oil in this case.
(And fact is stranger than fiction once more!)
An Idea I just came up with is that the superglue could be embedded inside small (nano? hmmm) particles that can be disolved with water or something, kinda like M&M's (melts in your mouth, not in your hands).
Yes, and the bonding technique is fairly costly, I understand. I read about a new process a few years ago that used high voltage arcs to bond teflon to metal. Supposedly it was substantially cheaper but I don't know if they ever went anywhere with it.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I remember when Eastman 910 was sold at retail back in the mid-seventies. That stuff was incredible (it was eventually diluted and sold as Crazy Glue) all you had to do was got a tiny drop of it on your hands and touch something and the only way you'd get it off was to lose skin. I accidentally glued my left index finger to my forehead ... not funny. No, not funny at all. We eventually discovered that acetone would dissolve it but in the meantime I had my goddamn hand stuck to my head for several hours. A friend of my mothers' glued her hand to her nose. Now that was funny. And it happened instantly, you didn't get a chance to pull it loose.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Actually, I read or saw something last year that said the best way to get rid of warts to put duct tape over them. Worked better than all the OTC medicines.
The only thing duct tape seems to have a problem sticking to is duct work in my attic.