A tip on using activator. I see this all the time on YouTube - people spraying the activator on the wood with the bottle of CA still sitting there.
Anything that you spray mists all over and floats all through the shop. I found this out the hard way when I made some home made WD40 by mixing light machine oil with mineral spirits. I put it in a spray bottle and used it one time squeezing gently to just get it on what I wanted to oil.
Wood all the way across the shop was covered with that oil. You could see where the droplets landed and then spread as it soaked into the wood.
Anyway, that activator will set off the whole bottle of glue. If you use a lot of it and go through bottles pretty quickly you're probably fine. But it will significantly shorten the shelf life of CA. I put my bottles inside a larger plastic bottle with a lid before I use activator. And I try to avoid activator anyway. It makes the glue more brittle. The faster a glue dries or cures the more brittle it is.
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Originally Posted by George Adams
