A warning about copper sheilding tape!!

[scottyd]

*Shielding Tape*
Apparently the edges on the copper tape are sharp enough to cut you! This is proven by my newly lacerated right hand pointing finger...It could have easily took 4-5 stitches which brings up my next point.........Praise CA glue!!

[Mr.Chucklebunny]

+1 to the max.

That crap is like flexible razors. I was shielding a bass once and suddenly noticed that blood was pouring from one of my knuckles. Didn't even feel it.

[WarriorJoe7]

Wanna play frisbee with a copper disc?

I throw first

[mutedeity]

Any pics?

[eleonn]

Did you put CA on your bleeding finger???

[jrfrond]

Originally Posted by scottyd

*Shielding Tape*
Apparently the edges on the copper tape are sharp enough to cut you! This is proven by my newly lacerated right hand pointing finger...It could have easily took 4-5 stitches which brings up my next point.........Praise CA glue!!

Most people do not know that CA adhesives ("Super Glue"), were developed for suture-less surgery. CA is made from organic compounds that will eventually breakdown when exposed to natural body enzymes.

It was back in 1988 when I was trimming/scraping binding on a guitar with a new #11 X-Acto blade, and I slipped and cut the tipof my left index finger pretty bad. Remembering what I had read in (I think) an AMA Journal, I reached for the Super Glue. It burned like HELL, and I had to keep reapplying it, but I healed without a scar or stitches.

So...glue up, dudes!!!

[WarriorJoe7]

Ah yes but are you sure that it is the same compounds nowadays? Hope so. Someone whould find this out. Do they still use this suff for surgery or not?

[amacintosh]

Super Glue is definetly safe to use on cuts nowadays, I know dozens of people who use it, I haven't cut myself badly enough to need it since I was informed, but I plan to use it if I do

[FanOfAlice]

i stuck a razor in my knee (slipped while cutting something) and superglued it it shut with regular superglue. it worked pretty good since it was in a very hard place to bandage.

[cricketfever32]

i feel your pain scott copper cuts make paper cuts look weak

[Dirk Diggler]

Yep copper cuts suck, but people scare me when they use Ca on and open wound. I have a friend that does that and I'm surprised he's still alive. The thing that scares me is what if some liquid glue decides to travel to the hmmm let me think here, the HEART!
Yikes it's enough to scare me.
By the way the CA we use and CA medical staff use have to be quite different, after all I think they charge at least $500 to use it on you.
Dirk

[keyboardguy]

From Google:

"cyanacrylic acid (krazy glue, super glue) was in fact developed for use in Vietnam. It is often used in emergency rooms and is called Dermabond. Same difference, except it costs alot more to have it applied there. $1.09 at the hardware store or $300 at the ER. I keep a tube in my first aid kit.You're close, except it's not "cyanacrylic acid," it's "cyanoacrylic acid." "


Mike

[sublime0bass]

oh man, interesting read. ive been putting superglue on my paper cuts (thanks mom) for a million years

[eleonn]

CA isn't mean cyanoacrilate which came from cyanure (not sur about the spelling one more time!!) which is poison?

[eleonn]

Originally Posted by cricketfever32

i feel your pain scott copper cuts make paper cuts look weak

Just remembered the Jackass TV show whenthis guys start tu cut themselves with paper between their hands and feet fingers!!! I was hiding my hands and feets just looking at that as if those guys would came off the tv and start to do that to me!!!

[scottyd]

I had a much worse cut on my hand got cut with a utility knife that laying carpet. I glued it and its fine now. I think the thing to do is wash it good, disinfect it, and use glue that has not been opened before. I can't imagine germs living in the stuff anyways but I would not use a bottle if it had already been opened.

[scottyd]

Originally Posted by eleonn

Did you put CA on your bleeding finger???

I had to apply pressure and stop the bleeding first. It was kinda tricky, because just when I thought I had it stopped enough it would bleed a little more and I had to start over.

[anechoic]

We use copper tape at work all the time for shielding things or bonding test equipment to the ground planes in the lab. I always warn people not to use their fingers to press or rub it down - use a screwdriver, pen, etc., because I really don't have time to be driving people to the emergency room.

I don't know that I'd be too keen on dumping industrial grade CA glue into an open wound, regardless of whether it was originally developed for medical applications. Krazy Glue probably isn't sterile, and it's not going to be held to the same sort of purity standards as a medical product. If I couldn't close the wound with normal basic first aid, I'd be heading for the ER. The only way I'd ever use industrial adhesives on a human would be in the event of a life threatening injury where it's the only way to get them to the hospital alive.

[jrfrond]

CA is inherently sterile, so there are no worries, and it is WAY too viscous to be snatched up by open capillaries to wind up elsewhere.

Medical-grade comes in guaranteed sterile bottles, and is, of course, way overpriced because of it's destination and end use.

I wouldn't worry about using it. After 19 years of using it regularly, it hasn't killed me. I'm sure that the inhalation of CA curing fumes and the accelerator, plus the lacquer thinner, acetone, CFC solvents, xylene, solder fumes etc. have done me more harm over the years.

[derrellvis69]

"Super Glue" rocks, after working through high school and college a couple of times... as a night stocker in grocery stores, that stuff saved many trips to the ER, due to "Slasher Movie" rated cardboard cuts. I of course always made sure my tetanus shot was up to date.....