This "white" glue/CA thing has disturbed me since it was first reported, as it seemed to be missing a sensible rationale for how it worked. For whatever it might ultimately prove to be worth, or not, I have a take on the water based/CA thing. Aliphatic resin (pva) glues are largely RF curable. The RF dose heats the glue (microwave), and accelerates the set. Heat supplied by another method ought to rationally do something similar, in any world I want anything to do with. Since the addition of moisture to CA glue triggers an exothermic reaction from the CA, it looks to me that this produced heat is what is accelerating the cure of the wood glue, and the CA has no other realistic function than producing said heat. Bruce Clark (WNG) tells me that the Franklin Assembly 65 glue that they sell is very responsive to heat curing, which would make it an ideal candidate for RF cured assembly processes. So... Being so heat cure friendly, it might well be an ideal symbiote to CA as a quick cure PVA glue field repair. Just a passing thought. Ron N
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