Building a device to filter the isopropyl alcohol I use for stripping paint from models, and reinforcing some joins with string and superglue.
Remember that cyanoacrylate reacts exothermically with cotton!
Reason that nothing has happened so far, so presumably the cheap string I’m using doesn’t contain cotton.
Shrug and continue.
Five minutes later, smoke starts seeping from the joins.
“Oh, son of a…”
