the is a solvent.... we keep it in the medical kit. There is also an activator..... super glue is then instant.... great for repairs...not for fingers, with activator on.... hence the solvent!
We use Acetone to clean the inside of refrigerant system pipes to remove all traces of the oils. Very important when switching refrigerant types. Not cheap, £100 a drum, but still 10,000% cheaper than the wife's nail varnish remover.
Heat apparently works. You could try running the tip of a hot soldering iron between the tube and your thumb. Text us from A&E to let us know if it did the trick ....
Blue disposable gloves are your friend. Unless you regard the skin on your hands as disposable. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bodyguard...hash=item2c82f6ce32:m:mlbmPGHqyEY8hAsi1DmaGtQ
or just use a really sharp knife and carfully cut the tube away leaving just a sliver of aluminium from the tube on your thumb it'll wear off eventually, and what an opener for chatting up the burds down the boozer
As a nipper, I fell and split my head open against the edge of an open door, my mother poured a load of sugar from the sugar bowl into the wound. As the sugar coagulated with the blood, it pulled the skin tight together and by the time I got to hospital, the medics were amazed that a wound they reckoned would have required 6 stitches, had closed up... Sugar!
Use a bench grinder. Just place fingers on wheel as it spins round. Great for sharpening your fingers if you enjoy poking people in the sternum like my old biology teacher.
When I have been bricklaying or concreting, my fingers and thumbs (the tips mainly) split leaving really sore open areas - after a while I get fed up and use Supaglue to close them - - but bloody hell, it doesn't half sting for several seconds - - particularly if I get another finger stuck on or near a split and I have to get them apart.
I worked in a test lab for a few years in the early 90's where we used to superglue sensors onto things and also cut elastomers with a scalpel. Often I'd nick my finger with a scalpel and superglue was an easy fix. That was about 15 years before I heard of medics using it. Still first choice for me in the garage when needed...
