UnPossible
Well Known Member
I wasn?t sure if and when I would ever share this story, but after the recent ?Liquid Plumber? confession, I thought I would go ahead and share my most embarrassing build story in the hopes that others would share theirs as well?. Here?s my story.
A couple of years ago, before I moved my airplane to the airport, I was working late one night in my garage on the wiring for my wingtip position lights. It was really hot in the garage, and not wanting to wake my wife up at 2AM digging for a pair of shorts, I decided to ditch my jeans and just work in my boxers. I was using some of those sticky backed cable tie mounting bases to secure the wiring for my lights. However, I had some issues with the sticky failing, so instead I was scraping all the sticky off the bases and installing them with 3M automotive contact adhesive.
I had mounted a couple of bases when I decided to run into the house to get a quick drink. Instead of putting the lid back on my nearly full tube of contact adhesive and putting it in a safe and secure location, I took the easy way out and just sat the tube down on the low wheeled chair I was using while working on the wiring.
Feeling much better after a short break and a quick drink, I returned to the garage and started up on the wiring again. Not long after resuming work, I started to notice a ?burning? sensation in my neither regions? you guessed it - I had just sat down, wearing only boxer shorts, on a nearly full tube of high strength contact adhesive and my butt was now burning and covered in glue.
Not wanting to have to go to the ER and explain to the doctors how I had ?glued my butt shut,? I did like any other industrious builder would do and looked for a solvent that would remove the adhesive from my butt. Looking around the garage, all I could find was some acetone?. Well, it seemed like a good idea at 2AM, so I grabbed a paper towel, doused it in acetone and proceeded working on ?ungluing my butt??..big mistake. If you thought that contact adhesive might sting a bit, the adhesive/acetone combo burned like the fire from 1,000 suns. So here I am at 2AM running naked into the house, yelling at my wife to wake up and start the shower so I can try and get the nuclear combination of contact adhesive and acetone out of my butt as quickly as humanly possible.
At first she was steamed that I woke her up at 2AM, but once I quickly explained to her the urgency of the situation, she was able to get the shower started for me, with tears running down her cheeks from laughing at my latest building mishap. Fortunately, I was able to get all the glue out in the shower and was spared the indignity of having to go to the ER and explain my predicament. So please learn from my experience and never leave a tube of contact adhesive, open on a chair at 2AM, or disastrous results like those above may occur.
A couple of years ago, before I moved my airplane to the airport, I was working late one night in my garage on the wiring for my wingtip position lights. It was really hot in the garage, and not wanting to wake my wife up at 2AM digging for a pair of shorts, I decided to ditch my jeans and just work in my boxers. I was using some of those sticky backed cable tie mounting bases to secure the wiring for my lights. However, I had some issues with the sticky failing, so instead I was scraping all the sticky off the bases and installing them with 3M automotive contact adhesive.
I had mounted a couple of bases when I decided to run into the house to get a quick drink. Instead of putting the lid back on my nearly full tube of contact adhesive and putting it in a safe and secure location, I took the easy way out and just sat the tube down on the low wheeled chair I was using while working on the wiring.
Feeling much better after a short break and a quick drink, I returned to the garage and started up on the wiring again. Not long after resuming work, I started to notice a ?burning? sensation in my neither regions? you guessed it - I had just sat down, wearing only boxer shorts, on a nearly full tube of high strength contact adhesive and my butt was now burning and covered in glue.
Not wanting to have to go to the ER and explain to the doctors how I had ?glued my butt shut,? I did like any other industrious builder would do and looked for a solvent that would remove the adhesive from my butt. Looking around the garage, all I could find was some acetone?. Well, it seemed like a good idea at 2AM, so I grabbed a paper towel, doused it in acetone and proceeded working on ?ungluing my butt??..big mistake. If you thought that contact adhesive might sting a bit, the adhesive/acetone combo burned like the fire from 1,000 suns. So here I am at 2AM running naked into the house, yelling at my wife to wake up and start the shower so I can try and get the nuclear combination of contact adhesive and acetone out of my butt as quickly as humanly possible.
At first she was steamed that I woke her up at 2AM, but once I quickly explained to her the urgency of the situation, she was able to get the shower started for me, with tears running down her cheeks from laughing at my latest building mishap. Fortunately, I was able to get all the glue out in the shower and was spared the indignity of having to go to the ER and explain my predicament. So please learn from my experience and never leave a tube of contact adhesive, open on a chair at 2AM, or disastrous results like those above may occur.
