I was doing a bird took it out of the saw dust used a hair dryer to clean and fluff and instered the head. Simple enough then this happened. I used zap a gap to start and glue the head into place a ferebee pheasent flxiable neck with the head attached. after one side was done I started to let it dry when my eyes started to burn and a strong smell started to come from the bird. It started to smoke and became very hot to the touch. Have done many birds this way and this is the first time this ever happen. Anyone know what might have caused this. Don't want it to happen again one mad customer is more then enogh for me. Thanks
Bill
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CA's sometimes react with synthetic materials. I tie flies and some threads react with CA when a drop is placed to anchor the head. The effect is as you stated, fumes rising, eye burning and heat. CA will also react with some chenile materials and a number of other plastics. I don't know why it would do that in the circumstances you outlined, unless there was some foreign material present.