Super Glue - Dollar Store

theyangman

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Is this what you guys use?

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If not, can you guys post up photos of what you use? I just want to know what I am looking for and which dollar store in London has it.
 
theyangman

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If there is a general consensus on a brand that is safe, I would like to find it is all and where to get it. If I don't get a sense of general agreement I will just try and find one that works.

If I recall it has to be a Cyanocrylate base?
 
Salty Cracker

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I bought a bunch of the little tubes from the dollar store once, like 5 or 6 packs worth, and every tube was almost all air, I got -maybe- one coral glues per tube... I may have just got a bad batch, but I went back to the brs superglue.

That said, the gorrila brand glue is pretty good too, I do find it doesn't hold as well though. 
 
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Salty Cracker link said:
[quote author=theyangman link=topic=6481.msg63478#msg63478 date=1381246183]
You buy glue to stick things with? I thought you were just in it to sniff em.
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can't sniff coral, some of it is toxic
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No point in driving to the dollar store everytime you want to glue a frag. I like the ecotech glue as when I want to glue something I know my bottle won't be empty.
 
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As mentioned in all the other super glue threads...cyanoacrylate is what you are looking for. I buy a bunch of bottles each time I go to the dollar store, so typically I am never empty. But I prefer the loctite stuff that I get from Canadian Tire.
 
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The gel superglue from Dollarama is the best bang for the buck in my opinion.  I usually pick up 5 or 6 packs when I'm in the area of a Dollarama, which usually lasts me quite a while.  I can glue quite a few frags with just one tube.
 
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jroovers link said:
The gel superglue from Dollarama is the best bang for the buck in my opinion.  I usually pick up 5 or 6 packs when I'm in the area of a Dollarama, which usually lasts me quite a while.  I can glue quite a few frags with just one tube.
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i find the brs glue excellent...
its only 7$? for a bottle and ive done over 100 frags with the the thing and its still not empty...
 
theyangman

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BRS costs more than the ecotech

1 oz tube is 5.49 if you buy 3 or more and for our example we will be so lets use that price.

1 oz = 29.573 ml

10 oz = 295.73 ml.

so 10 bottles of BRS is 54.99 vs one large bottle of ecotech (295 ml) which is 49.99

~10% more expensive.

Ecotech is more expensive on the smaller scale, but becomes a better deal on the larger scale. Wierd.

*Edit*: There is no difference in price between thick, and extra thick.
 
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Your going to see ecotechs prices going up ;) it will be about same as BRS after update.
 
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Don't forget the shipping cost on glue ... Blows me away that you wouldn't just use the dollar store stuff. I think 5x in this thread it's been mentioned that its the best bang for your buck. The ecotech and brs stuff is crazy expensive,
After buying 50$ frags the last thing I need to do is spend 50$ on a bottle of glue lol
 
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