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Hey Buddy: I worked with C/A's (cyanocrylates) for many years, in repairing and restoring pianos. I got the worst burn ever, and unimaginable pain, when I tried to soak up some spilled super thin C/A in a rag, and the rag and glue stuck to my finger. In my 50's, I was diagnosed with COPD, and I credit a great part of my lung damage to using the C/A's and the accelerators that used with it. If you ever see a stream of vapor coming off the setting mixture, get away! Those vapors contain cyanide gas! Get yourself a NOSH respirator, and charcoal filters for organic vapors, and even with that, position a fan to blow the vapors away from your mask, and don't ever let that glue/soda mixture stick to your fingers, unless you want a hell of a burn. Same thing for the plastic fumes, different poisons, but same result! About your method--if you are protected (hands, too with rubber gloves) put a thin layer of soda on 1st (no more than 1/8th"), level it out nice and even, then drip thin C/A along the edges. It will run into the middle, and you get a nice even job with no filing or sanding (when it matters). You can also use metal screen (like rebar in a concrete pad) with soda on each side for high stress repairs. The local hardware guys call old retired me MacGyver-'cause I'm always fixing things and looking for weird things to repair things with. Another reason, besides saving money, is to get the maximum value of things we have taken from the earth to make things (raw materials don't last forever) but landfills will last forever, and we're keeping stuff out of them! Good on ya! Take care!
What he said! I am constantly seeking work-arounds, tricks and cheap or free fixes to common modern component failures and sounds like you, Sir, are a fountain of quality tips and insights. Consider documenting your wisdom for the benefit of posterity and to offset the cost to your health. I appreciate it even if it is just in the comments of another video.
Some say Apple's Steve Jobs got pancreatic cancer from inhaling the fumes of lead, flux, acetone as he worked soldering motherboards as a young tech. These fumes may kill/ cripple you. Plastic soldering may be even worst! If you dont have fan+ good ventilation, then dont mess with soldering. Peace.
I was thinking the same thing specifically about putting the iron on a cyanoacrylate glue joint. Cyanoacrylate and burning plastic are bad enough, but burning CA is terrible.
I'm older than the dirt around me and I've been fixing things all my life. Thanks for this video blog it gives me something to stash in my old brain and use when I need it.
Great video. I have use baking soda and super glue to build up a plastic nut on a banjo neck. I did this because two of the strings were sitting too low in the nut. The nut is the string guide at the top of the banjo neck.
Dudes like you and the ones that give constructive comments are what helps make the internet great. Thank you and the commenters for your time...well done!
oh man, when he dumps that baking soda on the superglue and then says, "that's probly too much" gets me every time. comedy gold man. I'm lovin your videos. and i have a ton of broken plastic shit to fix.
If you have to explain frugality, resourcefulness and a repair technique demonstration to some people, then they may be too far gone to educate. For the rest of us, we really appreciate your efforts to teach how to do things around our homesteads that would otherwise bleed us of our hard-earned money. Thanks for taking the time to enlighten us.
I've been using super glue and baking soda for awhile. I put the baking soda in a plastic squeeze bottle with a narrow tip, 3 for $2 at Harbor Freight. Allows you to apply it more accurately. Also, you don't have to put it on so thickly. Build it up in layers just where it's needed.
I used the plastic weld method that you used on your hair dryer on two items. I welded a speaker onto its plastic cover like it was from the factory. Also, I have a Craftsman edger with a plastic gas tank, which is mounted with screws into it. It had 2 long cracks in it and was leaking gas when it ran. I welded all of those cracks up and had no leaks. It saved me $65 on that tank. Thank you for the videos.
Brother you are so right... today we have become a throw away society... instead of being inventive and resourceful we simply become consumers. And you are right... a penny saved is a penny earned... Now if you are a mega wealthy person or part of the 1 percent then I guess you would not be watching this video anyways. I have an old saw that works perfectly but the ratcheting knob has a knurled or geared portion that tightens the angle adjustment .. the single lever handle turns but you can pull the handle out and twist or rotate the handle so you don't need to worry about hitting other parts of the saw. Well the geared section is plastic and seems to have snapped so I will try to repair with your system... Failing that I will replace with a metal ratcheting handle from amazon. Hey you have over 200K people who have seen this video so disregard the haters bro.
Back in 1970 I was i a remote area in the Philippines for the first time and saw an old man fix a cracked plastic bucket buy using a strong wire and a fire as his solder gun. He made holes on ether side of the crack. Then melted a bread bags in an old can and filled in the holes and wire like stitches. It was just as good as before it broke. Weird but he changed my life as I could fix many things after watching him fix the bucket.
Your video was very helpful. The plastic water dispenser lever in my Samsung fridge broke. The manufacturer stopped manufacturing this $5 part and none of online parts shop has it. Since this was a lever where some pressure was put, I was going nuts fixing it. Also there was not much room to hold my band-aided supports. The super glue + baking soda compound is like a rock. Thank you so much for posting this video to share your knowledge. Really appreciate it.
This is amazingly good doublewide6. This saved me a fortune today. I had a plastic rod broken in one of my instruments. Never thought I could fix. But this did the impossible!!!! Many Thanks again.
You're a life saver! I'm swapping dashes in my na miata and the one I'm swapping with has one crack on the plastic heater vent up top. Used this and painted it to match and you would've never known. Thanks!
Just wanted to drop a line and thank you for this post- had a broken throttle control on a riding mower- the metal carb cable sliding across a plastic hole in the handle eventually etched out. I found a replacement on ebay- but will see how this holds up and keep new one for a spare--glad I saw this before I went out to get epoxy---always had issues with broken plastic parts- now I'll almost look forward to them!
great video, I’ve used the baking soda trick numerous times and it does what you say it does. I’ve heard that fiberglass reacts much like the ‘super glues’ to baking soda BUT I’ve yet to try it. Fiberglass cloth then adding a superglue to it is worth a test (for me) it might give the part some added mechanical stability (both are EXOTHERMIC reactions which can give off A LOT of heat) or even carbon fiber cloth(??). Note, I ALWAYS have some parchment paper around the shop because NOTHING sticks to it (just steal it from your wife or grocery store). Also, a sanded/rough surface gives you better results...it gives the adhesive something to grab onto
Oh my gosh!!!! Thank you so much for sharing this method. I have so many broken plastic things I want to fix and was hoping they weren't a lost cause. My kids are going to be so happy that I can fix their beloved plastic dress up helmets
what an incredibly useful video. I came on here looking for a solution to repairing my cracked white plastic bath panel - I've got that now, I've also got the know-how to fix SO many other things now, from cracked AV equipment, the kids toys, garden equipment and furniture - thanks fella, you're a thrift superstar in a world of consumer waste.
I like to thank you for show everyone how easy that can be. I just finished fixing the hood scoop on my Mini Cooper. Yes I could had bought a new one. But after spending the money on a paint job. I figured I save some money for now. AGAIN THANK YOU!
Broke the plastic locking mechanism on my RV Refrig. Used the super glue method Doublwide6 showed and it worked perfectly!! Thanks for saving me about $40-50!!
Good to hear from you again. You're Good People.and that's what we need today. Good people looking out for each other and supporting each other, Teaching each other and sharing our strengths and knowledge. That's the America I remember.
I admire your skills & resourcefulness. Don't pay any attention to the throwaway & buy new people who are filling our landfills with stuff than can easily be repaired & put back into service. One of them threw out a 42" lcd tv for garbage pickup and I fixed it for $3 in electronics parts - works just fine for me now. Took an hour of my time fix it. So I'm with you on learning how to fix things myself instead of just running to the mall and waving a credit card around. Thanks for teaching & passing on your knowledge!
THANKS FOR THIS!!!! I used this trick to fix my headphones! There was a crack on one side, I used super glue on the crack and every time I'd try to wear it it'd keep on cracking. So I used your trick and applied baking soda on the super glue and it worked!
Thanks for the baking soda tip. One thing that can be acheived is to take some small band of tissu & put it around the piece to be repaired & then put the glue. It does the same exothermic reaction, u can even see sometimes smoke getting from it. after that ! As a matter fact, I repaired the plastic piece, which was litterally splited in 3 pieces & which is joining the motor to the middle axe stick in my washing machine, with some '' Scott Towel '' bands & instant glue. As you said strong as concrete! Any how, I' m now gonna look for ur other vids! Thanks again!
THANK YOU! My problem was way sophisticated but I must say it worked perfectly! I had to fix an old laptop Acer TravelMate 5320. My laptops screen/monitor broke and I was unable to open and/or close it without falling apart and losing screws because they were attached through plastic nut and by applying your method I have managed to fix it...
Thanks for making the video. My old man used to weld plastic a lot but I was usually busy riding bikes or catching frogs. Don't mind the naysayers. Here are some good words to live by: "Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without."
A little advice on the fumes when touching super glue with the soldering iron are pretty toxic, its better to do first the plastic weld n then the superglue/baking soda, but actually both ways work great. You can even reinforce the plastic weld with pieces of wire or paperclip perpendicular to the crack pushing the wire inside the plastic.
Excellent video from another guy that repairs all kinds of things from old appliances to what looked like trash old under counter hot water dispenser (Incinerator even told me it was so old they didn’t have records of the serial number). Keep up the great work and you’re absolutely correct in saying it’s how much one saves!
Had an expensive fry pan years ago that stopped working,took control apart, filed down contacts, saved $50.00 bucks. Pays to try to repair then replace. Good vid..
Great video! I'm super critical of some of the bozos out there making videos. You gave very good information in a quick, simple and straight forward way and got directly to the point without wasting time. Thank you.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I had a piece of plastic tube on my car crack and almost brake, and dealer wanted like $120.00 after seeing your video I fixed and made the piece 2x as strong now. Thank tip of the crazy glue and baking soda was ingenious.
very good video, good clear up-close graphics and i like your logic-"anyone can buy, but fixing is an art" i use a a flexible heated knife to weld, easier to even-out, but i didn't know about the super-glue /baking soda combo......thanx!
Here because my £150 studio lamp base (holds the stems for the movable bulb) broke. Thank you very much, saved me getting rid of it after 5 great years using it during late nights working.
I'm going to attempt to use this method on fixing a pair of lawn chairs I have that have broken. I believe this is the only method that is going to work! Thanks for the Lesson!😉
Just stumbled onto this video and I'm glad I did. Had no idea that super glue and baking soda could be used together to fix plastic. While I'll certainly consider doing this in the future, I'm going to pay heed to what Nek Nosnaws mentioned in his comment regarding the fumes and use this in a well ventilated area.
Good job! In todays throw away society I'm not surprised you got flak over fixing that hair dryer. Kudos to you...I couldnt agree more with you....I fix or repair EVERYTHING I can. God bless your boy...hes in my prayers.
Thank you so much man .I cant define how much worried I was for my car panal its vintage thats why I cant find its new panal. I watched your video it really helped me Thanks again.....
Awesome video! I was waiting for years on how to repair my hand sander ends-made of plastic that cracked in the middle and highly stress points-for years! If I could post a pic of it I would.
Thanks heaps. i completely forgot about plastic welding,my headlight bracket snapped and was wobbling when i drove at night so this was very helpful cheers
Thank you so much I have been looking for a body part for 85 Suzuki GS1150e couldn't find it so tried to repair but the gluing the gap on a stick out plug kept breaking off. This looks like a permanent repair Thanks
ok, that's a nice repair video.. nice job. I never would have thought to use Super Glue and baking soda. I've seen it used to repair the "Nut" on a guitar neck.. but not seen it used like this...
This baking soda and super glue technique is used frequently on guitar necks, especially in cigar box guitar building. It works very well. I have a Craftsman powder coat gun that is made of plastic and is broken in half at the handle area. I plan to try out this technique to try to put it back together and stiffen the handle so I can salvage the gun. I am not so sure that the soldering iron would work so well on my broken gun, as the plastic is so very thin in that area which is broken. Since I really do not care as to how nasty the final produce may look as long as it works to effectively put the parts back together, and hold them rigidly, I don't mind the glob look of the baking soda and super glue technique. Thanks for posting this video as I had almost forgotten about this technique. On my project, duct tape just won't do to fix it and the Gorilla Glue or other glues probably would not hold up to the strength necessary for the gun to be put back into service. This may not either, but I won't know until I try and the gun is essentially useless as is. I wanted to cut a piece of 1`/14" pvc pipe into a section and then split is so it could be pushed around the handle and glued in place to make it into a brace for the gun. I may still do that after applying the super glue and baking soda trick though. I believe there is a weed eater spindle laying on your work bench in your video. Can you take some of that plastic weed eater string and melt it into the channel you in the cracked plastic part you showed in your video. Would it act as a fill agent by doing that?
Not sure if weed eater line works but I know a lot of people use zip ties as filler plastic. My best results are when I can use a little bit of plastic from the item I'm repairing. Same types of plastics mend together well. Also, for a stress crack I try to use staples across the crack, melted into the plastic. Or, window screen laid across the entire seam and heated until it sinks slightly into the plastic.
I agree with you about not being wasteful. But I must say this. The landfill thing is a myth. You could take all the garbage that America produces in 1 year and fit it in a square mile 1 foot deep. We have plenty of space for land fill.
Nice work man. I'm in the middle of fixing a speaker mount that looks just like this. Although I used super glue, I didn't use baking soda. I'll try that on the other side.
About to do a superglue baking soda combo on my Sony Home Theatre style headphones (usage torsion crack on the camber angle right speaker arms). Done this before years ago for other things. And you're right about the exothermic reaction. BTW plastic fumes are up there with second hand smoke so avoid that stuff. I usually use chlorine bleach instead of isopropyl alcohol when I prepare to work with plastic. I find the chlorine slightly scars the outer surface of plastic making it better to work with compared to alcohol. For those attempting this with lighters, you could burn what you're working on. You need to use an iron like method so if you have to use a lighter to heat up a piece of metal into a makeshift iron, that makes it significantly safer and easier.
Wow, what a great tip about using the super glue and baking soda! Actually, also about the soldering iron, which I've used to cut plastic with, but never to "weld" it! Thanks for the great tips!
Great work! Thanks for the tips! Learned a lot. Not a waste of time at all in my opinion. It would take about 10 minutes saves you some money and variable costs for buying new one is more than fixing one if its just 10 minutes generally for most of us.
Yup, whenever I use a zip tie and cut it shorter I always keep the part I cut off to use as a plastic filler rod... Also whenever you buy tools like a ratchet socket they almost always have some kind of antitheft device made of black plastic, keep that plastic too for plastic welding.
Thank you so much for your POST!! i used this baking soda - super glue technique to fix the door on my mini fridge (like the kind in a trailer/camper. Great !!!! I never would have figured this out.
That was pretty slick lol, I'm gonna use the technique with more attention to aesthetics lol I'm gonna control the glue and backing soda more with barriers and forms to mold the shape of the fix :) Thanks for posting.
Used this video's recommendation and repaired the very thin plastic liner on the inside of our old (28 years) refrigerator where I had cracked the screw holes all around it. Now the door closes firmly and stays!
I don't think you wasted any time fixing the dryer. Thanks for explaining the save money concept. We are in such a throw away society. It's just wasting money and resources left and right.
Thank you for making your informed videos and Thank you even more for continuing to make them not listening to the idle comments of others. I have even more respect for you! Just subscribed!
This is awesome. Im going to try both ways of repairing....that is, superglue and BS or soldering iron. I have a shallow plastic pool which I purchased for my ducks (its a kids paddling pool shaped like a scallop shell). Somehow, when I emptied the pool I cracked it when I lifted it full of water. Its quite hard plastic, but quite thin, so I need to build up upon the crack rather than try and solder it together. Thanks for this. Very helpful.
I think you sound like Kevin Costner. Seems like most items have a weak part - which breaks making the consumer go out and buy another one - for it, also, to break. Always good to learn how to bet the system. Thanks, DW6.
I like this dude. He kind of sounds like Thomas Hayden Church. I didn't see the other video but I'm assuming the commenters were young people that grew up in the disposable era. I will be using this on a $500 Thule Cargo box. So just going out an buying a new one wouldn't be an option. Plus I like fixing things.
Best tip of all, "Not what you make, but what you save!" Great vid. I haven't used super glue for years, hate the stuff, but after seeing your vid, I'm going to try this!
Where you went to welding with your soldering iron, Bondic would have worked nicely as an alternative. If you decide to give it a shot, would love to see a video.
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Hey Buddy: I worked with C/A's (cyanocrylates) for many years, in repairing and restoring pianos. I got the worst burn ever, and unimaginable pain, when I tried to soak up some spilled super thin C/A in a rag, and the rag and glue stuck to my finger. In my 50's, I was diagnosed with COPD, and I credit a great part of my lung damage to using the C/A's and the accelerators that used with it. If you ever see a stream of vapor coming off the setting mixture, get away! Those vapors contain cyanide gas! Get yourself a NOSH respirator, and charcoal filters for organic vapors, and even with that, position a fan to blow the vapors away from your mask, and don't ever let that glue/soda mixture stick to your fingers, unless you want a hell of a burn. Same thing for the plastic fumes, different poisons, but same result! About your method--if you are protected (hands, too with rubber gloves) put a thin layer of soda on 1st (no more than 1/8th"), level it out nice and even, then drip thin C/A along the edges. It will run into the middle, and you get a nice even job with no filing or sanding (when it matters). You can also use metal screen (like rebar in a concrete pad) with soda on each side for high stress repairs. The local hardware guys call old retired me MacGyver-'cause I'm always fixing things and looking for weird things to repair things with. Another reason, besides saving money, is to get the maximum value of things we have taken from the earth to make things (raw materials don't last forever) but landfills will last forever, and we're keeping stuff out of them! Good on ya! Take care!
What he said! I am constantly seeking work-arounds, tricks and cheap or free fixes to common modern component failures and sounds like you, Sir, are a fountain of quality tips and insights. Consider documenting your wisdom for the benefit of posterity and to offset the cost to your health. I appreciate it even if it is just in the comments of another video.
Thank you for your respose regarding the safety concerns with (cyanocrylates) .Nasty shit.
This comment is underrated, thank you sir for sharing your personal knowledge and safety.
Some say Apple's Steve Jobs got pancreatic cancer from inhaling the fumes of lead, flux, acetone as he worked soldering motherboards as a young tech. These fumes may kill/ cripple you. Plastic soldering may be even worst! If you dont have fan+ good ventilation, then dont mess with soldering. Peace.
I was thinking the same thing specifically about putting the iron on a cyanoacrylate glue joint. Cyanoacrylate and burning plastic are bad enough, but burning CA is terrible.
I'm older than the dirt around me and I've been fixing things all my life. Thanks for this video blog it gives me something to stash in my old brain and use when I need it.
Totally agree with you! Why buy when you can repair as it also gives you experience for more complicated & expensive items. Thank you, Colin
Great video. I have use baking soda and super glue to build up a plastic nut on a banjo neck. I did this because two of the strings were sitting too low in the nut. The nut is the string guide at the top of the banjo neck.
Dudes like you and the ones that give constructive comments are what helps make the internet great. Thank you and the commenters for your time...well done!
Thanks for the video ! Ignore those who are wasteful, REUSE, REDUCE,RECYCLE, REPAIR!
oh man, when he dumps that baking soda on the superglue and then says, "that's probly too much" gets me every time. comedy gold man. I'm lovin your videos. and i have a ton of broken plastic shit to fix.
If you have to explain frugality, resourcefulness and a repair technique demonstration to some people, then they may be too far gone to educate. For the rest of us, we really appreciate your efforts to teach how to do things around our homesteads that would otherwise bleed us of our hard-earned money. Thanks for taking the time to enlighten us.
I've been using super glue and baking soda for awhile. I put the baking soda in a plastic squeeze bottle with a narrow tip, 3 for $2 at Harbor Freight. Allows you to apply it more accurately. Also, you don't have to put it on so thickly. Build it up in layers just where it's needed.
Totally saved me $46 in buying a new part for my fridge. Thank you for this video! Super simple, everyday household items, and it works!!
I used the plastic weld method that you used on your hair dryer on two items. I welded a speaker onto its plastic cover like it was from the factory. Also, I have a Craftsman edger with a plastic gas tank, which is mounted with screws into it. It had 2 long cracks in it and was leaking gas when it ran. I welded all of those cracks up and had no leaks. It saved me $65 on that tank. Thank you for the videos.
Brother you are so right... today we have become a throw away society... instead of being inventive and resourceful we simply become consumers. And you are right... a penny saved is a penny earned... Now if you are a mega wealthy person or part of the 1 percent then I guess you would not be watching this video anyways. I have an old saw that works perfectly but the ratcheting knob has a knurled or geared portion that tightens the angle adjustment .. the single lever handle turns but you can pull the handle out and twist or rotate the handle so you don't need to worry about hitting other parts of the saw. Well the geared section is plastic and seems to have snapped so I will try to repair with your system... Failing that I will replace with a metal ratcheting handle from amazon. Hey you have over 200K people who have seen this video so disregard the haters bro.
well sometimes trying to get the matierials and know how is worth more than just getting a new one
So you know I did fix the item which had a serious crack in the racket socket and this baking soda and crazy glue worked really well. thanks again
Back in 1970 I was i a remote area in the Philippines for the first time and saw an old man fix a cracked plastic bucket buy using a strong wire and a fire as his solder gun. He made holes on ether side of the crack. Then melted a bread bags in an old can and filled in the holes and wire like stitches. It was just as good as before it broke. Weird but he changed my life as I could fix many things after watching him fix the bucket.
Your video was very helpful. The plastic water dispenser lever in my Samsung fridge broke. The manufacturer stopped manufacturing this $5 part and none of online parts shop has it. Since this was a lever where some pressure was put, I was going nuts fixing it. Also there was not much room to hold my band-aided supports. The super glue + baking soda compound is like a rock. Thank you so much for posting this video to share your knowledge. Really appreciate it.
Great video eh, I used this baking soda trick last week on some white plastic that needed gluing, it worked very well.
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This is amazingly good doublewide6. This saved me a fortune today. I had a plastic rod broken in one of my instruments. Never thought I could fix. But this did the impossible!!!! Many Thanks again.
You're a life saver! I'm swapping dashes in my na miata and the one I'm swapping with has one crack on the plastic heater vent up top. Used this and painted it to match and you would've never known. Thanks!
Just wanted to drop a line and thank you for this post- had a broken throttle control on a riding mower- the metal carb cable sliding across a plastic hole in the handle eventually etched out. I found a replacement on ebay- but will see how this holds up and keep new one for a spare--glad I saw this before I went out to get epoxy---always had issues with broken plastic parts- now I'll almost look forward to them!
great video, I’ve used the baking soda trick numerous times and it does what you say it does. I’ve heard that fiberglass reacts much like the ‘super glues’ to baking soda BUT I’ve yet to try it. Fiberglass cloth then adding a superglue to it is worth a test (for me) it might give the part some added mechanical stability (both are EXOTHERMIC reactions which can give off A LOT of heat) or even carbon fiber cloth(??). Note, I ALWAYS have some parchment paper around the shop because NOTHING sticks to it (just steal it from your wife or grocery store). Also, a sanded/rough surface gives you better results...it gives the adhesive something to grab onto
Oh my gosh!!!! Thank you so much for sharing this method. I have so many broken plastic things I want to fix and was hoping they weren't a lost cause. My kids are going to be so happy that I can fix their beloved plastic dress up helmets
what an incredibly useful video. I came on here looking for a solution to repairing my cracked white plastic bath panel - I've got that now, I've also got the know-how to fix SO many other things now, from cracked AV equipment, the kids toys, garden equipment and furniture - thanks fella, you're a thrift superstar in a world of consumer waste.
I like to thank you for show everyone how easy that can be. I just finished fixing the hood scoop on my Mini Cooper. Yes I could had bought a new one. But after spending the money on a paint job. I figured I save some money for now. AGAIN THANK YOU!
Broke the plastic locking mechanism on my RV Refrig. Used the super glue method Doublwide6 showed and it worked perfectly!! Thanks for saving me about $40-50!!
"HEY DOUBLEWIDE" you got a knack for plastic repair & nothing bad bout fixing stuff for the ole lady either ! THANKS-4-GOOD-VIDEO
Good to hear from you again. You're Good People.and that's what we need today. Good people looking out for each other and supporting each other, Teaching each other and sharing our strengths and knowledge. That's the America I remember.
Awesome! Got some broken parts that are no longer available for sale. This is going to be my first thing to try.
I admire your skills & resourcefulness. Don't pay any attention to the throwaway & buy new people who are filling our landfills with stuff than can easily be repaired & put back into service. One of them threw out a 42" lcd tv for garbage pickup and I fixed it for $3 in electronics parts - works just fine for me now. Took an hour of my time fix it. So I'm with you on learning how to fix things myself instead of just running to the mall and waving a credit card around. Thanks for teaching & passing on your knowledge!
THANKS FOR THIS!!!! I used this trick to fix my headphones! There was a crack on one side, I used super glue on the crack and every time I'd try to wear it it'd keep on cracking. So I used your trick and applied baking soda on the super glue and it worked!
thank god for guys like you willing to share stuff like this and.. for you tube.
Thanks for the baking soda tip. One thing that can be acheived is to take some small band of tissu & put it around the piece to be repaired & then put the glue. It does the same exothermic reaction, u can even see sometimes smoke getting from it. after that ! As a matter fact, I repaired the plastic piece, which was litterally splited in 3 pieces & which is joining the motor to the middle axe stick in my washing machine, with some '' Scott Towel '' bands & instant glue. As you said strong as concrete! Any how, I' m now gonna look for ur other vids! Thanks again!
THANK YOU! My problem was way sophisticated but I must say it worked perfectly! I had to fix an old laptop Acer TravelMate 5320. My laptops screen/monitor broke and I was unable to open and/or close it without falling apart and losing screws because they were attached through plastic nut and by applying your method I have managed to fix it...
Thanks for making the video. My old man used to weld plastic a lot but I was usually busy riding bikes or catching frogs.
Don't mind the naysayers. Here are some good words to live by:
"Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without."
great ideas and application bro, keep em coming! "A Penny saved is a Penny earned!"
Love your attitude and comments about the hairdryer!!!! Why don’t people get that?
A little advice on the fumes when touching super glue with the soldering iron are pretty toxic, its better to do first the plastic weld n then the superglue/baking soda, but actually both ways work great.
You can even reinforce the plastic weld with pieces of wire or paperclip perpendicular to the crack pushing the wire inside the plastic.
Excellent video from another guy that repairs all kinds of things from old appliances to what looked like trash old under counter hot water dispenser (Incinerator even told me it was so old they didn’t have records of the serial number). Keep up the great work and you’re absolutely correct in saying it’s how much one saves!
No bullshit, No blabbering bla bla crap, Straight on topic.
Thanks a lot man.
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Had an expensive fry pan years ago that stopped working,took control apart, filed down contacts, saved $50.00 bucks. Pays to try to repair then replace. Good vid..
Get to learn why trying.
Thanks, you saved me alot of money, your fix was perfekt for a cracked water tank in my dish washer. I owe you one.
Great video! I'm super critical of some of the bozos out there making videos. You gave very good information in a quick, simple and straight forward way and got directly to the point without wasting time. Thank you.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I had a piece of plastic tube on my car crack and almost brake, and dealer wanted like $120.00 after seeing your video I fixed and made the piece 2x as strong now. Thank tip of the crazy glue and baking soda was ingenious.
very good video, good clear up-close graphics and i like your logic-"anyone can buy, but fixing is an art" i use a a flexible heated knife to weld, easier to even-out, but i didn't know about the super-glue /baking soda combo......thanx!
Thanks for the info!! I appreciate your approach of trying to fix things, not just junk them and buy a replacement.
This is brilliant, I just used the superglue/breadsoda combo to fix a stroller!! Saved me > $100!! Boom!!
David Hannon Great happy I could help. Check out my son't Leukemia paypal donation on my channel page. Thanks
Here because my £150 studio lamp base (holds the stems for the movable bulb) broke. Thank you very much, saved me getting rid of it after 5 great years using it during late nights working.
Great video! I have never seen the baking soda & super glue trick. It is rewarding to be able to do repairs yourself.
It's not just saving money, when you repair something. You are also saving e-waste
Or keeping things out of the landfill.
It's also extremely satisfying! And it helps hone your skills.
I'm going to attempt to use this method on fixing a pair of lawn chairs I have that have broken. I believe this is the only method that is going to work! Thanks for the Lesson!😉
Just stumbled onto this video and I'm glad I did. Had no idea that super glue and baking soda could be used together to fix plastic. While I'll certainly consider doing this in the future, I'm going to pay heed to what Nek Nosnaws mentioned in his comment regarding the fumes and use this in a well ventilated area.
Good job! In todays throw away society I'm not surprised you got flak over fixing that hair dryer. Kudos to you...I couldnt agree more with you....I fix or repair EVERYTHING I can. God bless your boy...hes in my prayers.
Thank you so much man .I cant define how much worried I was for my car panal its vintage thats why I cant find its new panal. I watched your video it really helped me
Thanks again.....
Awesome video! I was waiting for years on how to repair my hand sander ends-made of plastic that cracked in the middle and highly stress points-for years! If I could post a pic of it I would.
This works so well, its hard to believe. Had packed my cereal dispenser for disposal. But now i fixed it in seconds. Thanks a million for sharing
I always repair my stuff and seeing you do this wonderful video for plastic gave ideas on what to reinforce my stuff so thank you!
Thanks heaps. i completely forgot about plastic welding,my headlight bracket snapped and was wobbling when i drove at night so this was very helpful cheers
I fixed my broken hard-side luggage like this - worked like a charm. Thank you!
Thank you so much I have been looking for a body part for 85 Suzuki GS1150e couldn't find it so tried to repair but the gluing the gap on a stick out plug kept breaking off. This looks like a permanent repair Thanks
Wonderful technique. Will definitely try this
AWESOME ! I knew there had to be a way to weld plastic.... you are my new SUPER HERO !
thanks a bunch. the soda and the super glue works like a charm. saved me a lot of trouble. thanks again
ok, that's a nice repair video.. nice job. I never would have thought to use Super Glue and baking soda. I've seen it used to repair the "Nut" on a guitar neck.. but not seen it used like this...
Thanks so much for this video It really saved me this morning fixing my son's toy!!
Great video. Any tips on how to do this on clear plexiglass? I’m trying to repair an old windshield.
Cracked dash board panel here I come. Thanks for the instructional video, once I repair the dash board i will post the pictures
This baking soda and super glue technique is used frequently on guitar necks, especially in cigar box guitar building. It works very well. I have a Craftsman powder coat gun that is made of plastic and is broken in half at the handle area. I plan to try out this technique to try to put it back together and stiffen the handle so I can salvage the gun. I am not so sure that the soldering iron would work so well on my broken gun, as the plastic is so very thin in that area which is broken. Since I really do not care as to how nasty the final produce may look as long as it works to effectively put the parts back together, and hold them rigidly, I don't mind the glob look of the baking soda and super glue technique.
Thanks for posting this video as I had almost forgotten about this technique. On my project, duct tape just won't do to fix it and the Gorilla Glue or other glues probably would not hold up to the strength necessary for the gun to be put back into service. This may not either, but I won't know until I try and the gun is essentially useless as is. I wanted to cut a piece of 1`/14" pvc pipe into a section and then split is so it could be pushed around the handle and glued in place to make it into a brace for the gun. I may still do that after applying the super glue and baking soda trick though.
I believe there is a weed eater spindle laying on your work bench in your video. Can you take some of that plastic weed eater string and melt it into the channel you in the cracked plastic part you showed in your video. Would it act as a fill agent by doing that?
Not sure if weed eater line works but I know a lot of people use zip ties as filler plastic. My best results are when I can use a little bit of plastic from the item I'm repairing. Same types of plastics mend together well. Also, for a stress crack I try to use staples across the crack, melted into the plastic. Or, window screen laid across the entire seam and heated until it sinks slightly into the plastic.
Anyone who's advancing my own learning is not wasting my time. Thanks
No, fix what you can friend. Our land fills are full of things that could be fixed you did the right thing fixing the hair dryer i saw that video
I agree with you about not being wasteful. But I must say this. The landfill thing is a myth. You could take all the garbage that America produces in 1 year and fit it in a square mile 1 foot deep. We have plenty of space for land fill.
Excellent video not too much chat. Just straight to it.
Awesome video was wondering could I use this technique on a cracked clamcase for my iPad?
This...... This is genius! Wow! Great video! I never knew about the baking soda and the super glue. Looks like it works great.
Nice work man. I'm in the middle of fixing a speaker mount that looks just like this. Although I used super glue, I didn't use baking soda. I'll try that on the other side.
This guys is clear and informative
About to do a superglue baking soda combo on my Sony Home Theatre style headphones (usage torsion crack on the camber angle right speaker arms). Done this before years ago for other things. And you're right about the exothermic reaction. BTW plastic fumes are up there with second hand smoke so avoid that stuff. I usually use chlorine bleach instead of isopropyl alcohol when I prepare to work with plastic. I find the chlorine slightly scars the outer surface of plastic making it better to work with compared to alcohol.
For those attempting this with lighters, you could burn what you're working on. You need to use an iron like method so if you have to use a lighter to heat up a piece of metal into a makeshift iron, that makes it significantly safer and easier.
Dude! I just want to say thank you for this video. This seriously worked! I've fixed two things since then. Thank man!
Wow, what a great tip about using the super glue and baking soda! Actually, also about the soldering iron, which I've used to cut plastic with, but never to "weld" it! Thanks for the great tips!
Great work! Thanks for the tips! Learned a lot.
Not a waste of time at all in my opinion. It would take about 10 minutes saves you some money and variable costs for buying new one is more than fixing one if its just 10 minutes generally for most of us.
That's great man! Good info. I'd always rather fix an expensive part than buying a new item or expensive part that can be repaired.
Use a plastic cable tie/zip tie to weld and fill in the void.
Glenn Dutton Good tip. Thanks.
I thought he was going to use a spool of weed wacker material. Would that work? Kind of like plastic solder?
Yup, whenever I use a zip tie and cut it shorter I always keep the part I cut off to use as a plastic filler rod... Also whenever you buy tools like a ratchet socket they almost always have some kind of antitheft device made of black plastic, keep that plastic too for plastic welding.
I agree with what you said in the beginning, great video.
It's not about the money you make but how much you save...... subscribed!
Thanks Doublewide6, that was an awesome tutorial. Hopefully I can repair the cover for my ice machine now.
Thank you so much! I accidentally cracked my teeth retainer, your plastic + baking soda method fixed it right up!
Thank you so much for your POST!! i used this baking soda - super glue technique to fix the door on my mini fridge (like the kind in a trailer/camper. Great !!!! I never would have figured this out.
Will try on my walkman hip clip . Cool video .
This is really cool. I wonder if I can apply this on a super small scale. Like game controllers, children's toys and what not. Hmmm. Gonna try it.
What an amazing hack - just what I needed to repair the leg of an electric fireplace - THANKS!
Will use this to fix my cracked four wheeler plastics. Thanks for the great tips
That was pretty slick lol, I'm gonna use the technique with more attention to aesthetics lol I'm gonna control the glue and backing soda more with barriers and forms to mold the shape of the fix :) Thanks for posting.
At the beginning, you talk about fixing a hairdryer. I'm watching this video just for that. Thank you.
Used this video's recommendation and repaired the very thin plastic liner on the inside of our old (28 years) refrigerator where I had cracked the screw holes all around it. Now the door closes firmly and stays!
I don't think you wasted any time fixing the dryer. Thanks for explaining the save money concept. We are in such a throw away society. It's just wasting money and resources left and right.
Its not just the money its the fact u can stand back and say i fixed IT.
Thank you for making your informed videos and Thank you even more for continuing to make them not listening to the idle comments of others. I have even more respect for you! Just subscribed!
This is awesome. Im going to try both ways of repairing....that is, superglue and BS or soldering iron. I have a shallow plastic pool which I purchased for my ducks (its a kids paddling pool shaped like a scallop shell). Somehow, when I emptied the pool I cracked it when I lifted it full of water. Its quite hard plastic, but quite thin, so I need to build up upon the crack rather than try and solder it together. Thanks for this. Very helpful.
I think you sound like Kevin Costner. Seems like most items have a weak part - which breaks making the consumer go out and buy another one - for it, also, to break. Always good to learn how to bet the system. Thanks, DW6.
I like this dude. He kind of sounds like Thomas Hayden Church. I didn't see the other video but I'm assuming the commenters were young people that grew up in the disposable era. I will be using this on a $500 Thule Cargo box. So just going out an buying a new one wouldn't be an option. Plus I like fixing things.
NO SHIT!!! I was just about to post the same thing, couldn't remember Lowells real name though.
Best tip of all, "Not what you make, but what you save!" Great vid. I haven't used super glue for years, hate the stuff, but after seeing your vid, I'm going to try this!
Great video! This is exactly what I need and can't wait to try it!! Great job!!
Where you went to welding with your soldering iron, Bondic would have worked nicely as an alternative. If you decide to give it a shot, would love to see a video.
Awesome thanks for the video. Cracked headlight bracket gonna do this