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Dog with an injured claw

One of our Leonberger dogs was licking its right hind paw for a while 2 weeks ago. A closer examination showed that a claw was splintered the long way. The rupture reached even as deep as the living part of the claw. A phone to the animal doc resulted that she was a a twin birth of horses. So my wife desinfected the pow and did a bandage. But the splinters stuck to the bandage when the dog moved and it seemed to do some pain. So my wife wanted to try out instant glue on a cyanoacryalte base but feared that it won't help because of the big rupture and the long hardening time it would result too.

So I went to the garage and got an UV-hardening glue from the garage. Costed like 100 euro one and a half year ago, main cost then a UV-light with a spot focussing, I saved the money by repairing some hard to glue stuff already. Yesterday evening we used a file to bring the paw in shape again. The UV-hardened glue was harder than the paw, so the natural part was more used up by running than the glue one.

 

Seems all is healing well. When the dog of my brother had a similiar wound it costed like 150 euro, the claw removed, bandaged for like a month and the dog had still pain in the meantime.

 

UV_hardening glue a few year back the UV-light costing thousands of euro

 

and this morning at shop: the UV-glue is now at only 20 euro, with glue, file and UV-lap. Laser diods makes this technique eally cheap it seems. No longer an extra UV-lamp, all made into a handy glue pen.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k32iM97Unvk

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Great read Chattius. Macgyver!

 

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That UW hardening glue is interesting. I just had some work done on my teeth a few weeks ago, and I remember there coming a blue light out of my mouth when he was setting the filling. He kept beaming over and over.

 

This the same concept?

 

:)

 

gogo

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Yes, dentists use it a lot. But they are forced to use the high expensive UV light source with a carbon fibre flexible hose her in germany. Filters added and other stuff - it is a difference if you just use it only seconds every so and so days or if you use it minutes each day.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_composite

 

A hand-held wand that emits primary blue light (T-ENERGY?) (λmax=450-470nm) is used to cure the resin within a dental patient's mouth.

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Google search shows also UV-dental glue for 15euro which normal people can buy to glue ornaments to teeth (wonder how anyone with a clear mind want to damage a tooth).

 

What I liked most is the possibily to glue 3 dimensinal, do a TINY drop, move parts still you think the proper 3-dimensional direction is okay, and then harden it in 5 seconds. No hardening without UV-light so you can work slowly and carefully. Nice if your daughter is the district champ in the all schools compedition for indoor flying. All flying modells had to be build with a 5 euro budget and in front of the eyes of the teachers/judges in an afternoon. High quality rubberband was 60 cent, 12 drops of glue (12 cent), bird feathers were considered free... Only help I gave was to tell her to use bird feathers and in slaughtering a quail, oops. Was needed for symmetric wings and a good soup.

 

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German book about bird feather models and indoor flying

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Was sold in the plastic model scene for 2 years. The pen for everyone is at Bauhaus (german hardware stores company) for a few weeks now. Might have a different name in other countries. It is really nice: you can move parts without any hardening - till you use the light and then it hardens in seconds.

 

Mine old one looked like this:

 

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Hmm, searched a bit and the manufacturers site says patent pending. Perhaps there is no other patent in the european community but the patent search in america is not finished yet.

 

Disadvantage of this glue/3D-modelling-mass is that you can't glue parts which block the UV-light totally.

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  • 2 years later...

My wife said that she watched a surgery at the local hospital where UV-glue was used to repair bones which suffered from bone cancer. Another usage should be to fix bones of old people where inserting a nail for fixation would be too much risc.

 

Last bigger thing I did with my uv-glue was a glass terrarium for breeding slowworm(?) eggs I found in the compost which I had to remove sadly to have access to a wall of the barn I had to repair. Slowworms are legless lizards.

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Slow worms: you learn something new every day. I just watched a clip on BBC about them. I never would have thought that there were legless lizards, had I seen one I would have just thought "snake"

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  • 1 year later...

The genius is in the family it seems. Allone at house our 11 year old was washing the tricots of her soccer team and put too much clothes into the washing machine. The rubber seal ruptured because an arm piece was caught she said. She cleaned the mess done by the water running out. Then she tried her bicycle repair kit on the rubber seal because the tricots were needed,

100 washes later it still works and I start to feel stupid because I ordered a new seal for 35 Euro 3 month ago ;)

 

After 100 washes:

 

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