I don’t think it’s a case of the glue being corrosive at all, it’s the fact that over the years, these statues “breathe” a little bit. Tiny, tiny, tiny amounts of expanding and contracting due to the temperature and humidity. Because of the backing on these old eyes, sometimes the glue held them so rigidly in place that they couldn’t move properly, even those minuscule amounts, and so they cracked, or the color separated from the glass of the eye. To this end, superglue would be just as bad (if not worse).
Even the best glues that are flexible will become brittle over decades, so that’s why Windstone went with fired eyes instead of enameled.
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