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[@sure5291]

Stick to the title. Where is your super glue making.

[@MaxBrix]

Title: Super Glue (How it's Made) video: shows everything but how super glue is made.

[@charlesseymour1482]

Here you go...

[@blaster-zy7xx]

Just FYI TEFLON is the brand name for PTFE

[@herbertshallcross9775]

So the bit of information the title promises isn't there. Super Glue (how it's made).

[@BrayTube]

You just weren't paying attention.

[@herbertshallcross9775]

@@BrayTube As I use CYA glue in a variety of ways, I was very interested in learning how it is made, what this video purports to show. Because of your casual and inaccurate comment, I just watched this entire tedious video over again, and I was right the first time. There is not a single word in the video about how CYA glue (Super Glue) is made .Thank you so much for wasting my time.

[@BrayTube]

@@herbertshallcross9775 So you missed it TWICE?!

[@78tag]

Congrats! - your production crew has figured out how to layer good background audio into the show (under the voices) without burying the quality of the primary voices. Very few shows are able to accomplish this. Oh yea, this was an interesting subject made even more interesting because the voices were intelligible. Great job and thank you. EDIT: I forgot to mention how much I enjoy this channel. We need more entertaining and enjoyable info like this in the world and a lot less of the depressing/fake media we get force-fed constantly.

[@Xanderbelle]

While at the same time dragging out a five minute subject to a 30 min video

[@78tag]

@@Xanderbelle In most cases I would agree Allen but this "5 minute video" managed to keep my interest. that is unusual.

[@andylewis7360]

@@78tag Do you enjoy being patronised? 🤣

[@cyy3793]

You DO NOT apply superglue INTO a laceration wound. You apply the glue OVER the opposed edges of the wound, forming a glue structure which bridges OVER the wound, which holds the open edges together. Glue must not come into contact with the wound at all, as this would in fact prevent the wound edges from meeting each other and therefore actually hinder the healing.

[@swicked86]

Done this many times as a mechanic, even better is afterward put glue over it and put a layer of tissue, do it a few times and you'll have a hard cast that'll fall off itself when the skin below releases.

[@terrykrueger]

I really didn't expect to be such a fan of the soundtrack of this documentary. Thumbs up!

[@neilhannay4976]

As far as epoxy resin glues are conserned, I stuck stone together using professional quality epoxy 40 years ago. The stone is outside weathering perfectly. So I tried a supermarket epoxy special marble. It didn't last a year.

[@akfarmboy49]

Lots of good scientific information on key building blocks I liked every minute of it.

[@willclayton9909]

JB WELD !!! good for metal best glue of all time

[@tawangsinghthingujam1295]

"How many frying pan is that? Let's calculate it. ". "No, let's not" XD

[@br45entei]

After I heard him say that I was like "ooh that sounds interesting" and then she said "No, let's not" and I was like, "aw, dang" xD

[@pavlekocbek]

exactly, man ...mawahahahaha!

[@pavlekocbek]

I believe most of us watching it had in that moment an epiphany of one sort or another. Probably a subject of some deep doctorate dissertation in psychology @@br45entei

[@PENFOLD1962]

It worked for me... I was GLUED to the screen!

[@zahracummin5325]

Omg

[@soulergy1soulrgy1]

Yes, but we all know how you were made!

[@madrush24]

Wow, this show didn't skip on their soundtrack budget!

[@brendangilmore4297]

That's exactly what I thought too 😄

[@benjaminjones5029]

Bi-Carb..Looks like the powder you'd find on a BBC producers dresser.😃

[@zyxw2000]

The only glue I've found that works on EVERY material except polyethylene and polypropylene is called E-6000 (brand name,) a high-grade polyurethane adhesive. (I CAN use it on polypropylene if I roughen the surface.) I go through one tube every few months. I don't know if there are other brand equivalents.

[@mikecavell8283]

Thanks brilliant video, but wait, the title was how superglue is made, you told me what it is and how to make glue from milk but nothing about how any of it is made except paint, sorry but not what it says in the title!

[@paulbyerlee2529]

Sad this series has been dumbed down so much.

[@halfrhovsquared]

And even after being told how to say it correctly, she still mispronounces cyanoacrylate.

[@Programm4r]

@@halfrhovsquaredwho cares how she pronounces it. She’s the average Joe having it explained to her.

[@halfrhovsquared]

@@Programm4r - She's presenting a science channel. Teach shit, people learn shit. She is not an average Joe. She is being a science presenter and is held to a higher standard than some dipshit talking crap over a pint with his mate in a pub.

[@TheFalconJetDriver]

This is the very first video of you I have seen! I have to say I am stuck on following you! I subscribed! 😁🛫

[@Vidyut_Gore]

Just discovered this account. Brilliant!

[@leonvanderlinde5580]

Pratley in South Africa have a caterpillar hanging on a few square centmeter plates for over 30 years outside their factory.

[@brendangilmore4297]

Bags not eat my lunch under it....

[@georgelovesnopain]

Fantastic! Thanx a ton..

[@outoppie000]

❤ the soundtrack!

[@Grunchy005]

Good work going down that mine, I applaud your bravery!

[@dogwalker666]

Why going down a mine is no big deal its working down there that's hard.

[@bizobloka8872]

very informative

[@lancebon2931]

toughest glue known in the 1960's/70's, was the glue that stuck Playboy pages together. Every parent of boys in those years will verify this.

[@gyrgrls]

Nice to cum together like that.

[@darrencorrigan8505]

Thanks, Banjay.

[@jeromejooste3493]

What a great soundtrack.

[@WoodoakWilderness]

If PTFE doesnt stick to anything, how does it stick to the pan???

[@wolfsommer1767]

50% introduction 48% word not worth listing to 2% information now doesn't that mirror our society?

[@chuckufarley8158]

liked the back ground music :)

[@mrgcav]

18:10 Another British attempt to take credit for something they did not invent. PTFE or Teflon was invented by the American corporation Dupont, Roy J. Plunkett (June 26, 1910 - May 12, 1994) was an American chemist. He discovered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), better known as Teflon, in 1938. The visdeo does not answer its own question. How is superglue made ?

[@peterszar]

Excellent video. I really enjoy these Wonderstuff vid's, very informative. It doesn't hurt that Ms. Moore is easy on the eyes, what a cutie.The occasional background music sure brings back memories.Wow man, my hand is making waves in the air...far out man, ha ha.

[@turtle7792]

CLICKBAIT TITLE!!!!!!

[@gyrgrls]

"It doesn't hurt that Ms. Moore is easy on the eyes, what a cutie." I bet you'd really bond with her.

[@RJ-qh2px]

11:23 - Asbestos is a polymer built from carbon? Is this one of those words that means something different in the UK vs the US?

[@moronicpest]

There are exceptions to everything. Even super glue and epoxy glues won't work well on polyethylene. Teflon coatings mainly stick to pans in a mechanical way, as the coatings themselves don't stick all that well to metal without having having the surface been made rough in some manner first. In paints, zinc oxide costs more but had certain advantages over titanium oxide like in UVA resistance and corrosion resistance. Titanium dioxide gives better opacity at lower cost though.

[@ObservationofLimits]

Telfon coatings are done in multiple layers. There's an etch/primer layer with a small teflon content bonded to the metal, which the final teflon coat is able to bond to.

[@Jonathan.D]

​@@ObservationofLimits Too bad they didn't mention anything about how toxic Teflon is. It's is harmful to both your health and the environment. According to a large body of research, C8 disrupts normal hormone function and lowers T levels in men. It has also been linked to various cancers and birth defects.

[@cyy3793]

@@ObservationofLimits exactly, that's exactly how dentists apply composite tooth filling too, otherwise the filling will drop off or fracture from the tooth cavity easily.

[@pr9039]

Muse Uprising? Nice for music lol love it.

[@petergambier]

Thanks for the interesting topics covered in the program and the journey down into the Blue John Caves and the fluorite mineral. Also the section on paint and Titanium dioxide. I work with the mineral calcium carbonate most days in my work as a lime plasterer and was taught that the faster something dries the more brittle it becomes whereas the slower it dries the harder it becomes and the lime mortars dry back to being a rock again, unlike a cement, lime allows water vapour through which is why lime putty mortars are preferred for old ancient buildings and homes, they are softer than cement. Cement dries very rapidly and if used in an old building it will break up soft rock and clay bricks making them crack and split up. Lime mortar will dry back to rock which takes many years if done properly and no nearby vibrations like heavy traffic. Casein is also added to lime paint to make lime paint more durable and hard. The capital W in Wow is reserved for the fluorite green gas that was so reactive it was kept it in 2 containers.

[@fiskrond9212]

try explaining this to a renderer who has only ever worked on new-build and/or blockwork that you simply DO NOT use plasticiser in the mix when going onto stone!

[@everTriumph]

And if the dome burned down, the PTE would present a very nasty hazard, releasing HF acid into the atmosphere.

[@mrgcav]

This series is so limited to Britain it ignores the larger picture and the truth.

[@donaldolin4616]

Nice.

[@-Chooka]

Growing up with the name of 'Richard Barcock' must have been interesting.

[@chrisleon27]

Wonderful episode, hello from China

[@biggestgerbil]

Allvery well but how does the PTFE coating stick to the frying pan???

[@halfrhovsquared]

By making the surface of the pan very rough. The PTFE coating fills in the gaps in the rough surface and bonds, mechanically.

[@biggestgerbil]

@@halfrhovsquared Ta.

[@bencapobianco2045]

How do they get the PTFE to stick to the pans??????

[@bobsoft]

Gore Tex is PTFE

[@jasminh4448]

Im here because of a Twitter meme, so where are the melted horses at 😑

[@kevinwilson8328]

E171 is in toothpaste, and your polo mints. And for those who don't appreciate the hole, it is in Trebor mints as well!

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

And tea mints and scurvy candy and toilet mints.

[@heenaha3124]

Can we use any milk

[@sh4835]

I would love to be a subscriber if you had captions.(hard of hearing and very curious)

[@Rob-fc9wg]

What a grouse sheila she is! Cheers from Oz 🇦🇺

[@Wizz5m]

any 1 here from my online class mr.robinson

[@Wizz5m]

@Nathaniel Yegres-Ambroziak u didnt have to expose it like that in front of other ppl but yes i am

[@Choom2077]

13:41 Man's soul was crushed here... lmao.

[@a0cdhd]

So..... How do you get PTFE to stick to the frying pan. Hmmmmm?

[@andytipping70]

If PTFE is so non stick, how do they get it to stick to the frying pan? please tell us

[@johno9507]

PTFE is stuck mechanically to the surface. The surface is bead blasted then a light coat of Teflon (PTFE) seeps into the small cavities in the metal and is dried. Then another few coats of Teflon is added as the only thing to stick to Teflon is more Teflon.

[@andytipping70]

@@johno9507 thanks

[@mrgcav]

PTFE is Teflon. Roy J. Plunkett (June 26, 1910 - May 12, 1994) was an American Dupont chemist. He discovered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), better known as Teflon, in 1938. The same reason melted wax sticks to Glass. PTFE is a wax and it is melted onto the surface of the pan at around 425°F.

[@bobsoft]

@@mrgcav Also Gore-Tex

[@andyroid7339]

This series has "BBC One Show" syndrome: a "clever" quip every few seconds, not too much science to baffle the viewer and a recap and tag words for the complete idiots. I learnt nothing. And to think, the BBC used to produce QED, Horizon and programmes with James Burke. Where's the chemistry of the molecules involved? Where's the history of these discoveries?

[@Road38910]

Yeeeep, stopped listening to the One Show years ago. Basically it's gibberish for the feeble minded.

[@ayanshyadav9650]

Jol jol mp mp

[@ayanshyadav9650]

Kl

[@andylewis7360]

Hard to believe people actually make a living pumping out this lowest common denominator crap. Bring back Tomorrow’s World!

[@brendangilmore4297]

BBC1 subscribes to the 'Let's Reduce The National IQ' narrative

[@MattGriffin1]

"Oh goodness me you are such a boff, and I'm such an idiot!, but I do love my PFTE coated frying pan"...This programme is made for thickos who are too distracted with juvenile giggles at those people who have studied hard to make a difference in humanity

[@mmamaccamamm8640]

Who knew glue was made from milk

[@grumblycurmudgeon]

Amen. I grit my teeth through this. "Let's do a science show!" "Okay, on two conditions: one, we pander to the lowest common denominator," "...of course..." "...and two, we find a passing-obnoxious middle-aged woman that same demographic can readily identify with, and who's neither interested in the subject matter at hand, and who will offend and demean the experts and specialists - the lot of which outclass her intellectually by several orders of magnitude - that we pay to interact with her." "Cor, that's a tall order... how many is 'several'?"

[@andylewis7360]

Considering we’ve gone from Tomorrow’s World to this in only a few decades I now understand how Boris persuaded us that he was “Following The Science”. And the really incredible thing is that there are more highly qualified specialists working now than at any time in history. Gotta say, if I was “strange little man” Mark I’d have rammed that bench down her patronising throat.

[@halfrhovsquared]

@@andylewis7360 - I winced every time that vacuous air-head butchered the name, cyanoacrylate.

[@andylewis7360]

@@halfrhovsquared awww! Give her a break. Script writers and Drama students don’t use words with more than 3 syllables. 🤣

[@heheboi7443]

I love this series... Just the right mix of science and fun! Don't care about the negative comments.. I totally ship Mark and the reporter (•‿•)

[@johnsmith7676]

Ghey.

[@alext8828]

I got me bangers in the pan and they ain't stickin' worth a farthing. Ah, the important things in life.

[@andylewis7360]

You could tell that frying sausages isn’t something she has much experience of

[@gyrgrls]

@@andylewis7360 We had four of them on the outdoor grill, and man - they were sssss-ssiziln'!

[@andylewis7360]

@@gyrgrls Damn! Ya got me cravin’ some Lincolnshire links now! 😁👍🏻

[@richardbennett8268]

So, How does the non-stick coating on the frying pan stay stuck to the metal underneath?

[@uploadJ]

Oh - you've stumped them!

[@brendangilmore4297]

Damn - I'm not going to be able to sleep now....

[@johnsmith7676]

Black magic. Kabbala stuff, ya know.

[@Jonathan.D]

What you should be thinking about is getting rid of that nonstick pan. Actually PFOA's are in so many things that it doesn't really make a difference by getting rid of that old pan. Teflon is harmful to both your health and the environment. PFOA's contain C8 and according to a large body of research, C8 disrupts normal hormone function and lowers T levels in men. It has also been linked to various cancers and birth defects. The use if it is so wide spread that every human over the age of two has it in their body. Once there it can't be removed.

[@halfrhovsquared]

The surface is roughened so that the coating fills the gaps and bonds, mechanically - Think of dovetail joints in woodwork.

[@alexrXX]

Wanted to watch how superglue is made. Wasted 30 minutes and didn't see how superglue was made.

[@KJ6EAD]

Exactly. I knew after three minutes of hype and repetition that this was going to be one of those low information shows best avoided.

[@philliplopez8745]

Take a piece of acryilc and melt it with the proper solvent and you have super glue , same thing with lexan .

[@KJ6EAD]

@@philliplopez8745 No. That's not how cyanoacrylate adhesive is made. Your proposed technique would result in something like old style model glue.

[@Deadmau5l]

and be told they glue a wing on a plane with it. You mean they use it too stick the lining on the inside of the plane lulul

[@gingersam851]

thanks

[@terry_willis]

How do they get teflon to stick to the pan??

[@mrgcav]

PTFE is Teflon. Roy J. Plunkett (June 26, 1910 - May 12, 1994) was an American Dupont chemist. He discovered polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), better known as Teflon, in 1938. The same reason melted wax sticks to Glass. PTFE is a wax and it is melted onto the surface of the pan at around 425°F.

[@robinclifton4182]

I was hoping that the ultra violet curing adhesive would be explained, move on , nothing much to see here sadly

[@emilyrln]

I don't think I've ever heard this many needle drops outside of a movie. Wonder what the licensing fees added up to…

[@khanzeb3263]

Madam what is the formula of supper glue

[@leejamestheliar2085]

What is in the stuff that "they " have been spraying from airplanes for the past decade or so????? That's what I wanna know. Thx for the ROXY MUSIC. You obviously have good taste.

[@catnium]

its water vapor dumb shit

[@leejamestheliar2085]

@@catnium F off.

[@Jonathan.D]

Those nonstick pans seem great but Teflon is one of the most prolific human made toxic substances found on earth. PFOA's are used in so many things that it doesn't really make a difference if you get rid of that old pan. Teflon is harmful to both your health and the environment. PFOA's contain C8 and according to a large body of research, C8 disrupts normal hormone function and lowers T levels in men. It has also been linked to various cancers and birth defects. The use if it is so wide spread that every human over the age of two has it in their body. Once there it can't be removed.

[@baseddino]

Haven't finished the video yet but you only taught us to make wood glue not make super glue

[@alessiopiantanida2042]

all good, however, asbestos is not a polymer nor is carbon based

[@IIGrayfoxII]

Not all brake pads are glued. Some use spikes in the backing material to hold the friction material.

[@kennypool]

Locktite super glue, best all around.

[@allysons3554]

I wondered how it was made

[@philliplopez8745]

The thinner the joint the stronger the bond .

[@abhishekb2063]

Lets calculate it! Lets not Ok..

[@vanhetgoor]

Where are the old horses?

[@johnjones4825]

13:43 it's easy, 600 000 pans...

[@philcook9967]

Please add closed captioning if possible.

[@zyxw2000]

Hit the "CC" button.

[@RaffaelloLorenzusSayde]

They use asbestos? Where dies cyanoacrylate or its ingredients come from?

[@Ofthe7thSon]

What bothers me is how she sniffs everything. As a chemical specialist I know you should never ever stick your nose into anything chemically related....

[@andylewis7360]

She’s so insufferable I was hoping she’d have a good honk on some Chlorine

[@alext8828]

DuPont Lucite was at the '64 World's Fair. Are these guys kidding?

[@andylewis7360]

Apologies from the UK for this crap

[@fourwheelingforgems5940]

In frame 16:46 you have what looks like a statue of a lady opening up her dress about 20 feet tall. Actually, it looks like two figures one standing behind the other with her head tipped to the viewers right.

[@bowlweevil4161]

a mortician told me that cynoacrelate glue revolutionized putting people back together and making them so much more viewable after distructive ocasions

[@gyrgrls]

nothing like reconstructing the bond

[@benjaminjones5029]

I imagine before that they used pork skewers? Ah staples I think. I think you can get hand sewing machines?

[@nicodesmidt4034]

Fokker airplanes used to be glued way back in the 60’s

[@ss-pw4zj]

Vinyl records went out, the vinyl industry had to come up another use

[@businessaks]

Someone can send me this Super Glue formulation ??

[@andylewis7360]

Cyano - Of, or relating to cyanide Acrylate - Of, or related to acrylics

[@businessaks]

@@andylewis7360 I need both formulation process please

[@blaster-zy7xx]

But this video was about getting things to stick and not stick , so the obvious mystery to solve is: if PTFE (Teflon) is so non stick, how do they get the PTFE to stick to the pan?

[@SianaGearz]

Often not very well. Once you scratch through the Teflon and to bare alu in one spot, it might just lift up the rest of the Teflon sheet. So it doesn't as much stick to the pan as just hugs it tightly. Still there's a few ways they try to improve adhesion. One is etching the aluminium surface with lye so it's porous, letting applied layers bite into it. Other is that there are several layers and the one touching the metal directly isn't exactly PTFE. It might be PTFE that was previously pre-degraded by intense heat or plasma to break some molecular bonds and make it sticky, but it's still sufficiently similar to Teflon that the rest of PTFE sticks to it. Or it might be a mixture of PTFE and a different polymer entirely, so the two types of molecules are intertwined into each other, but the next layer of PTFE still sticks to the PTFE molecules.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

@@SianaGearz Thanks. That would have been a good bit to include in the show. I'm sure I'm not the first to wonder that.

[@SianaGearz]

@@blaster-zy7xx This whole video is a lot of showmanship and little information, all the scientific/engineering facts and explanations that it delivers could be compressed into barely a couple minutes.

[@Wayzor_]

So, it's not from super-horses after all.

[@evanfehr3819]

Cyanoacrylate is super glue!

[@MrTandtrollet]

Really odd choice of presenter. She seems completely disinterested and keeps cutting the experts off with "let's not" etc. =(

[@brendangilmore4297]

True that...

[@godsarecool8835]

Did anyone's siri also go off during the intro?

[@brendangilmore4297]

🤣

[@ZeRoeSports]

GLUE

[@symphonyofdistraction]

change the name to something like "stuff that sticks, or doesn't"

[@bellyacres7846]

Super GLUE (How it's Made) is this answered in this ad?

[@biffrude4981]

Im stuck for real😅

[@zaran1]

Never forget, folk, you MUST wear safety glasses whenever you are near milk, water, baking powder and vinegar...

[@caitlinwalker7663]

lamo the first 4 seconds

[@turtle7792]

HMMM.... so how is super glue made?

[@brendangilmore4297]

Yeah they never actually explained that...

[@ayanshyadav9650]

I guide semoene

[@philliplopez8745]

She blinded me with science and that english accent .

[@andylewis7360]

She knows nothing about science. Or treating people with respect

[@shawnmoler2551]

Classic British intro

[@AllMostOliver]

Horses And a bench press, Do the math.

[@creeib]

00:56 Careful you don't grow a second nose.

[@Look_What_I_Did]

Nineteen seconds is all the time it took to know this is rubbish.