Microtips Extension Applicators for Nozzles (50 pieces)

Microtips improve my bowl turning by allowing me to “chase” cracks. When a crack appears in a bowl blank I use Starbond Medium Thick CA Glue with a microtip to deep-fill the crack before I continue. I can then turn ‘through” that layer to clear wood without a chunk flying off the lathe and damaging the bowl’s (or my own) profile. Highly recommend Starbond Microtips. FIVE stars.

I needed these tips for a very slight and hard to reach crack in a ceramic piece. They worked perfectly hitting the crack and allowing just the right amount of Starbond Thin CA needed for the now, invisible repair.

Starbond CA glue is a fine, consistent product. But I got more than that.

This is a “gluing system.” It’s great to have extra nozzles and fine-tip applicators. Don’t have to compromise my work in that regard.

I make a lot of small decorative boxes and precision gluing is a big part of it. I love these applicators for delivering exactly the right amount of glue where I want it. Great product for a great glue.

As a recent user, I have been impressed by Starbond's products. The glues are high quality and the service is great. But more than that, Starbond has recognitized that clogged tips and the need for precise delivery points are critical parts of efficient use of their glues and proactively include new caps and tip extensions when you buy bottles of glue.

These Starbond tip extensions are very effective in every way, but I do question their cost effectiveness. Just a quick scan on Amazon shows that many sources are providing 100 - 200 extension tips at $3 - $4 per 100 tips. I've even tried one that sells 600 tips for $10! Some of the bulk tips are a bit thicker and stiffer but, in all those cases, the tips work just fine on Starbond, Zap, and Bob Smith bottles. The cheaper ones can be marginally more difficult to put on the bottles, but they work just fine in my experience and just warming in the hand for a minute softens them all enough to use without issue.

I do recognize that tips can be cleaned in acetone. But at half a cent each for the bulk supplies, it's less messy and less dependent on handling volatile solvents to just toss them out than trying to recycle them when I'm done with a gluing session.

So, that's a long-winded way of suggesting I do think Starbond should consider larger packages at lower costs for its extension tip customers.

Love them! Gives me the ability to control where and how much

I have a wood project that requires a small tip when filling holes/cracks with Starbond Superglue. This is the perfect applicator tip. When the project is completed. Just toss the tip because I have 49 more!!!

Easy to use. Fantastic results