Pro tip, Cyanoacrylate

    

Crazy Glue, Super Glue, Quick Set, Super Bonder, Eastman 910. Cyanoacrylate is great stuff by any name. It was originally discovered when trying to develop a clear bombsite during World War II(1942). It stuck everything to everything else. Scientists at the time decided this was a useless feature and discarded it. Rediscovered in 1951 by two Eastman Kodak(There used to be this stuff called film. You would put it in a camera, take pictures with it, then pay some guy in a drugstore ten bucks to develop the film so you could see how terrible they were). These guys, Harry Coover and Fred Joyner, realized that people did, in fact, like to stick many things together. So in 1958(It took seven years?) Eastman started selling Eastman 910.
   Cyanoacrylate reacts, and sets, to the presence of water in the air(Pretty cool). That is why you need to put it on thin, so it can all react. This is also why a bottle of it becomes unusable about ten minutes after you open it. When applied to cotton, it can have an exothermic reaction producing enough heat to catch fire(Also pretty cool). Acetone will loosen cyanoacrylate as will a couple of other chemicals that sound like they may cause instant cancer.
     Cyanoacrylate is used for building models, fletching arrows, capturing latent fingerprints, and putting on fake fingernails. Guitarists use it to make their fingertips tougher. During the Vietnam war, a spray on version was used to close wounds and reduce bleeding until soldiers could be evacuated to a medical facility. It is used in place of stitches with reduced incidence of infection. It is used by college students to glue their sleeping room mates hand to his weiner, creating hilarity(Don't do this).
     In the shop, I use cyanoacrylate for a couple of things. Gluing little broken bits back together of course. And it works great if I slice open a finger or rip back a cuticle, just glue it closed and keep on working. Way better than a band-aid.
     But my favorite use for cyanoacrylate is gluing the wires of a cable end together. Sometimes after installing and cutting a cable you need to pull it back out. Getting it out is pretty easy, pushing a cut cable back thru the housing without it fraying can be tough. And some cables are pretty pricy, so you don't want to just replace them(And eat the cost) after trimming to soon. With the cyanoacrylate you can clean the cable end with solvent, apply the glue wait a few minutes and then easily remove and reinstall the cable. Even with a twisty routing the cable will stay un-frayed.
     You can also solder the cable end. This used to be a popular pro move and I still do it if someone wants me to. The problem I have found with soldering is that it makes the last half inch of the cable rigid. With modern routing, especially in frame, this can keep you from getting the cable back thru the housing and makes it near impossible to route thru a shifter.
     Go get a bottle of this magical stuff and glue a quarter to the floor in a high traffic area, it is good for hours of entertainment.