Quick question: When will my cyanoacrylate glue dry?

[widmer]

Hey-

I just glued some PVC fittings onto the pipes with some cyanoacrylate super glue I bought, when do you suppose I can count on it to be dry? 1 hour? 24 hours?

I'm just curious because I just filled up a new tank that's going to be a reef (yay!) but my DIY overflow has a super super tiny leak, maybe a drop per hour? I'd like to go to bed and sleep easy, so I want to start up the pump that will be pumping water back from the refugium, But that means my superglue needs to dry....

Thanks!

 

[plyr58]

why did you use super glue instead of plumbing glue?

 

[widmer]

Well the cyanoacrylate was what I had lying around, I knew it was reef safe, and I had FANTASTIC results when I had to glue some plastic to some glass in another application...

This stuff does dry underwater doesn't it? I could have sworn I have heard of people using it to glue frags down...

 

[corals b 4 bills]

Do you have gum?

 

[widmer]

lol thank you for your contribution. In case anyone was on the edge of their seat, I've got the sump up and running, and its working great. Who knows, if I hadn't gotten it going the drip might have drained the entire aquarium in ten years. Can't wait till I've got the corals in...