This sent an endless cascade of memories of old experiments by folk lacking basic knowledge of electricity... The fried guitar amp when the player decided to double the power by reconnecting the transformer (burnt transformers smell
bad!), the farmer who replaced the broken power cables to his tractor radio with baling wire (insulation is helpful, too bad baling wire has none), an inexhaustible supply of audiophile tweaks over the years (the green pen on the edge of CDs is just the tip of the iceberg, with things like the Tice Clock up to modern "sonic dots" to improve acoustics providing endless fodder).
Specific to superglue, for a while there was a (perhaps just local) fad of using it to fix in place internal components from capacitors and resistors to wires and fuses. People were buying 10-20 little tubes of the stuff and applying it to everything they reach inside their components. And using solder, epoxy, whatever on the stuff super glue would not stick to. What a mess! It did provide a number of interesting repair propositions, making me some money in the process, but was largely not worth the effort. A standout was a guy who managed to glue
all the potentiometers (volume, balance, bass, treble), switches, and the radio tuning knob on his receiver.... He was sharp enough to realize the front part with the knob attached must move, so his solution was to squirt the glue into the
back of all the controls.
