History of Duco Cement

[@phillippierce5974]

When I was a kid, we always had tubes of Duco cement. The only thing it was ever good for was sticking the tubes it came in to the bottoms of kitchen drawers. It never stuck to anything else.

[@lyrebirdinusa]

The bonds can be broken easily, which makes it the ideal glue for temporary fixes. We use it in our laboratory to temporarily stick lenses or other components in a setup.

[@goodun2974]

Duco cement is a "contact adhesive" which means you're supposed to apply a thin layer of the glue to both surfaces, allow them to dry and become tacky for 5 to 10 minutes, and then stick them together. If you just put a blob of glue on the parts and stick them together, you are bound to be disappointed with a low-strength glue joint. Today's E6000 glue is a somewhat similar contact cement.

[@lyrebirdinusa]

@@goodun2974 Ah... I probably should have read the instructions :)

[@goodun2974]

@@lyrebirdinusa , As the video mentioned, there have been a number of different chemical formulas for duco cement over the years and whenever they changed the formula and the packaging they didn't necessarily give you very good instructions. What you got, and what you still get from adhesives-packaging in general is ad copy: "this is our new, improved miracle product that will repair every broken thing you encounter in life; it's even better than our miracle product that came before!". Actual do's and don'ts of usage, and things that it does or doesn't adhere to well, and the best techniques for applying it towards specific types of repair often get glossed over, and whatever information they give you is mostly concerned with flammability, toxicity, and the possibility of personal injury, just to cover their butts so they don't get sued if somebody gets hurt using it. The other thing that really ticks me off about adhesives is that almost never do they give you an actual date code on the package that you can interpret without having to consult a Cray supercomputer; adhesives generally have a shelf life that varies from one type or formulation to the next, but you might be buying something that's saemt on a rack in the store for a year or two or perhaps longer.

[@bobbressi5414]

Forgot this stuff existed but as soon as this video popped up I remembered the smell. We used to use it to glue the rubber patches on punctured bike innertubes

[@ronz101]

Your right about the smell which has since been modified to keep the user from getting woozy. 🤪

[@andrewvelonis5940]

I was surprised, but glad that someone decided to do a history on this.

[@michaelavroom747]

Good video, thank for not wrecking it with awful music

[@eugenepolan1750]

Duco Cement was my father's go-to for hobby and around the home use.

[@Todd-o8n]

Never heard of it, but it looks familiar. My dad was a chemical/plastics engineer and made his own adhesives from sketchy looking glass bottles in the cellar. Probably why I never heard of Duco cement.

[@dazaspc]

Hardly a surprise they would be using these materials for paint and glue. They had been making explosives and gun powder with them for well over 100 years prior.

[@flashflame4952]

This product was always in my parents house!!!

[@catranger01]

It was a great waterproof cement for porcelain repair. Sadly you'll be hard pressed to find it in local stores today.

[@seadogharris2102]

I grew up with this glue. With my father at my side we built models and fixed (and sometimes repaired) everything at the farm. From what I remember, DUCO Cement did not work well.

[@robertrobert7924]

At first DUCO was a nitrocellulose glue that was highly flammable. Then it over the years it evolved into a safer product. I make reproduction combustible paper cartridges using flash glue and flash paper, like the ones made by Colt and other manufacturers for Civil War percussion revolvers. I shoot them in my reproduction percussion revolvers and they work great, leaving no char residue in the fired chambers. They can be purchased at magic supple shops or online. They are expensive and the shipping is costly, so not many shooters bother with making them. They just load the chambers with loose measured black powder and lead round balls of the proper diameter. There are many YT videos showing the use of coffee filter paper soaked in a supposedly nitrated water solution which does not have the same efficient properties as flash paper, and was never used during the Civil War. The same can be done with cigarette papers(which are nitrated to make the paper slowly burn the same rate as the tobacco) but they will leave charred paper in the chambers also. However cigarette papers are good to use for learning how to make the tapered paper cone shaped cartridges, before you make them with flash paper and flash glue (which are highly nitrocellulose flammable materials).

[@ivartillotson835]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue…

[@BeingRomans829ed]

You used up all the glue... on PURPOSE!🤬

[@doubledrats235]

Excelsior! (Seltzer bottle).

[@travisruble6873]

I had no idea the mane ingredient for smokeless gunpowder is found in paint and glue, NInitrocellulose is an amazing compound.

[@Daniel-79]

Never used this before…I must try it. I’ve always been a JB Weld guy

[@loridave1962]

What year did Duco Cement for household use get onto hardware store shelves?

[@kenmore01]

How about the evolution of the remote control? Loving your channel!

[@historyofsimplethings]

We'll cover this in our next video! Thank you :)

[@kenmore01]

@@historyofsimplethings Awesome! I'll look forward to it!

[@christophercripps7639]

Duck being used to refret a guitar reminds me that one of the two big guitar manufacturers used Duco into-lacquers as OEM finishes. I read some luthier acquired a supply of the original formulations. This could put this luthier in advantageous position of refinishing vintage but distressed relics. (One should think thrice before refinishing any vintage guitar of note lest the collector value is trashed.)

[@NCF8710]

4:29 This is exactly what I use DUCO cement for.

[@paulhelman2376]

Ambroidpreceeded it for canoe repair

[@Gertyutz]

Duco has been replaced with better glues, such as E-60000, which glues EVERYTHING, and cyanoacrylate (Super glue).

[@goodun2974]

At 3:55 , that's CA glue, cyano-acrylate or "super" glue, being used to glue guitar frets into the fretboard slots so they won't tend to pop up from changes in humidity. Not really germane to a video about Duco cement!

[@artworkbysteve1]

Dupont os no longer my brother used to sniff that stuff he never was the same after that.

[@christopherjunkins]

DuPont... the best worst company in existence... or among them.

[@malvinderkaur541]

From every mainstream product to taken for granted services commodities without even paying attention to, all of them are built by second third and so layers of products without which that main product wouldn't get created even a small nut bolt is important so their history can be choronclized with their useage

[@danielsee1]

Too I would for and patented shoes is always then.

[@Gertyutz]

Can you say this in English, so we can understand you?

[@blainerueckwald]

Never heard of it. must be an American thing only.

[@nikolay9584]

Commies had SuperCement glue. It's definitely bootleg version of that.

[@geneticdisorder1900]

How many people have died, thx in part to dupont !!! The Lawyer that Became duponts Worst Nightmare. Read this story.

[@Gertyutz]

They died using Duco?

[@REL602]

Y'all are old. Never heard of Duco.