The baking soda/super glue combo had me like "that's dope, I should keep that in mind (knowing I'll forget and never use it). Then I saw the gear mold and filling a drill hole and all of a sudden I have a handful of things I'm about to fix this weekend.
Things to note: Small amount of powder, small amount of glue, let it set and LET IT COOL, then add a small mount of baking soda, small amount of glue. This is a highly exothermic reaction. In large quantities it can get hot enough to melt or possibly ignite the material being repaired. The reaction between the bicarbonate (baking soda) and the cyanoacrylate (superglue) forms polymers, or chains of atoms, which is why the resulting solid is stronger than just superglue alone. These polymers can become brittle below freezing temperatures. Keep that in mind if your repair will be exposed to severe cold. A good way to add your powder is to put it into a salt shaker, This helps you add small amounts at a time and breaks up the lumps into a finer powder for a neater finish.
I saw a video where they said that this method was used for repairing helicopter blades (superglue and sodium bicarbonate). how far below freezing are you talking (becomes brittle)? have you heard this about helicopter blades?
After watching this video I'm considering constructing a house made entirely from baking soda and super glue. I will have poignant mood-music playing on site while I work.
I’ve used this for years as an RV Technician to repair damaged side wheel panels and anything plastic, except we purchased an actual product of the 2 mixtures! That showing in the fabricating the plastic gear was something I really learned from!!! Wow awesome!!!
In my 40s and I cannot believe that I am just now learning about this baking soda + super glue thing... definitely a nice lil hack that will come in handy someday. Thanks for sharing 👍
I used this on my guitar "nut" (the slotted part where the strings slide through on the head stock).The nut groove was too deep because I was going with a lighter guage string so I used super glue and baking soda it was hard as a rock when cured almost instantly. I then just cut a new slot with a razer blade an a file.That was 5 years ago still holding strong.
Yes! This is the exact sort of comment I was looking for. Ive played 23+ years....somehow. I do lots of mod work, repairs, builds ECT and this is interesting stuff. Glad to hear it's good for guitar work
Dont be a wanker pal. .....ithe bottle top thing was just an example of the strength of the "WELD".I have used this combo for about 6 yrs now and have been amazed how strong the bond becomes.I wish There had been super glue when I took safaris in Botswana and Zimbabwe in the 80 s .
As far as stripped/oversized hole in wood/composite materials, you can also use pieces of wood toothpicks and saturate the hole with wood glue. Takes longer to dry but wood glue is a lot more forgiving before it sets if you make a mistake.
Thank you for posting! Super glue plus baking soda seems like an incredibly easy and practical fix for so many shop and home projects. I can't wait to try some of these fixes!
This really is pretty amazing. If I had known about this long ago, there are so many things I could have repaired better. I had no idea these two ingredients could form such a strong material, and bond. And thank you for showing the broken gear trick, there has actually been several times I could have used that trick to fix my sons toys.
any normal wood glue with do the same on particle board, if you use wood glue to join 2 pieces of particle board together, it will break the wood itself long before the join will break under pressure.
@@notfiveo Yeah see there's tons of ways to repair holes that will last, but what I find most intriguing is the sheer speed with great durability. I was hearing someone talk about how a luthier swears by using baking soda and super glue, and that's what got me thinking about it.
You can buy this for yourself and it's already done it's called "Q bond" You dont have to be a hack and use baking soda... Trust me you think you're life is changed now... Go buy some Q bond, and fix literally anything from ceramic cook pots to water pumps, it ridiculously strong. Just do it trust me
Loved the repair for the gear, thanks!!! 💖 I discovered this powerful combo by accident when I was cleaning out a cluttered sink cabinet & found a spill turned into an unbreakable solid. I use it for so many repairs now, works great for so many different surfaces. A Dremel is useful for smoothing out sharp edges, getting even surfaces, buffing for a shine AND for sanding off accidental glue globs 😬. When repairing ceramics, if a crack will be large & noticable, I'll add the base pigment (of whatever it is I'm repairing) in powder form to the baking soda so that after it dries, all I have to do, if anything, is paint any small details with acrylics. *As a note, if you plan on using pigment, you'll likely need to double the pigment to offset the white soda. And always test your pigment/soda ratio for the right shade BEFORE applying superglue! All in all, in using this stuff & learning different tricks, I've got to point where even I have trouble finding where the repair was made!
I've used this for many years but recently came across someone who uses graphite or a graphite and baking soda mix (sodium bicarbonate or bicarb in the UK). The results of using graphite are even more astounding ... stronger and harder than without! Fixing cogs the way shown is ingenious though as it saves any post op filing or sanding to shape of the teeth. I must try it on metal cogs using graphite to check just how strong that can be! 👍👍👍
I did this trick when working on a craft project. Things to note: first, the glue dries almost immediately when mixed with the baking soda, so you have to work fast, and second, it is very hard to get a smooth surface. You will have to heavily sand, to the point of using a Dremel tool, go get it close to smooth.
I reattached my severed fingers after a tragic milk carton accident this morning and have already fully recovered thanks to this video! I only wish I'd added some cinnamon or mint to the baking soda for a pleasant post op scent.
Actually, 😌 Apparently if you break a china plate or chip a cup, and realign the pieces while soaking it in milk (buttermilk 🤔...i forget) ... The porous ceramic edges will 'mend' back together!
@@RLaraMoore So what you're saying is if you never want to chip a china cup, only drink buttermilk because it will instantly mend itself the moment it's dropped! 😂
The gear being repaired was very poignant to me. All that effort in a throwaway world goes largely unappreciated by the largely unappreciative population. I liked it lots!
I had an electric pencil sharpener in which the nylon drive gear disintegrated. I found a 3d-printed replacement for ten bucks on eBay that let me keep a cool old bit of office supply out of the landfill.
I didn’t realize this was such a life changing experience for 27million people. I and others have literally used this for miniatures repairs and other things for decades.
my life has been falling apart but thanks to this video I can finally put it back together. I will build a monument out of super glue and baking soda in honor of super glue and baking soda. I want to share this with the world. It is truly life changing. thank you my friend
Hobby train enthusiasts and miniature painters commonly recommend superglue and baking soda for bonding because the baking soda also fills in the gaps! Thanks for the video!
I’ve been doing this for years, and it works every time. Also you can also bond metals if you aluminum power as media instead of baking soda for metals.
Most everyone has super glue but few people have wood putty and liquid steel handy, let alone so quick drying. I mean instantly drying. Much faster drying than a puddle of super glue alone and the strength is amazing.
I've seen this done in toy car restoration. It actually works really well for particular purposes. You can sand it into shape, much like plastic. And it does paint up well too. Has the consistency of hard plastic
@@TomatoTomato911 Yes, as Mr. Manuel said. You can collect some from either sawing, filing, sanding, or drilling from the same wood piece you're repairing. That's why when I'm wood crafting, I collect some debris just in case of repairs or filling in some holes/cracks.
Nice video man and great idea! I like the practical use of this. Who would have thought that combining baking soda and cyanoacrylate would create such a strong substance for use as a replacement for various parts-stronger than cyanoacrylate alone. Going to try this to fix some drawers and as an underlying layer in a wood door, which hole became stripped, to place screws in. 👍🏻 Keep up the novel ideas and the great work 👍🏻
I used this trick to put a base on a D&D monster mini once. I had to use some thin cardboard, but I also used this technique to build up the base a bit like it was terrain under its feet. :-) Looked really good actually.
I used to do the same, only with extra thick CA and store bought CA accelerator to assemble the minis, then the glue plus grass or sand from model railroading for the terrain. A well painted miniature deserves a nice base.
@@soundspark "Chemically, the bicarbonate molecules in baking soda react with cyanoacrylate to create a reactive ion that more easily bonds with other cyanoacrylate molecules. These bonds establish long, polymer chains that are stronger and more resilient than cyanoacrylate-water bonding. The resultant substance is a super glue and baking soda plastic with a cement-like consistency that creates stronger, exceptionally durable bonds." Was wondering the same thing.
@@viper1431 Great explanation! Question... is this the similar type of liquid glue created that uses UV light to quickly harden instead of the baking soda? Or are they the same thing?
I can think of at least a dozen times that I could have used this idea in the past and I am sure I will be using this method in the future. Great to the point video.
This is great to know. I liked how you fixed the cogwheel. But I found it especially helpful to know that it's possible to use this method as a hole filler 👍💕
Another way to repair holes in wood is to drill it to the size of a dowel, glue the dowel in the hole with wood glue and then trim… once it’s dried the repair is stronger than the chipboard as dowels are made of hardwood
I’m seriously going to try this on a drawer knob that keeps falling out. I’ve tried everything else, couldn’t hurt might help. Thanks for posting this!
I just used Loctite Super Glue to fix a bathroom nightlight, and the superglue didn't work. I was regluing a shell to the plastic switch. I was very disappointed! I decided to do a search for glue that would adhere a sea shell and plastic together. I found nothing, but I found your channel. I said, what do I have to lose? I tried it and it worked wonders. That shell's go'in no where! What a wonderful gift from above. I thank the Lord, and I thank you!
This is way stronger than any consumer 3d printing... they use this kind of fix on helicopter rotors.. it's insane how durable a usually brittle substance (acrylic) get when it bonds with a proper filler
A lot of us nerds have known about the baking soda trick for quite some time. Chemistry is awesome. Thank you for sharing this super cool trick for the masses!
Is chemistry involved here? I thought it was simply adding some structure like when you add sawdust to wood glue to fill a hole or imperfection. It works well for low strength structural repair like as seen in this video. Is there something more complex going on here at a chemical level?
Done this on multiple laptops for hinge repairs. Useful when you have such narrow parameters to work with. it can also help to use less glue initially and do several applications, or mix the powder in.
I learned this trick years ago. A Super Glue bond is pretty brittle, but if you mix it with just a pinch of baking soda (no need to dump it on like in the video) it hardens like concrete. You'd have to saw the bond apart once it's hardened. But you have to be very quick because you only have a few short seconds once they mix.
Use a drinking straw to place the baking soda in hard to reach places or when you just want to add small amounts at a time. Great way to build up fine gussets too.
Wow! I am absolutely amazed … the very thought that you can repair and mend almost anything with super glue, baking soda and sawdust. Who knew? Thank you so much for your insightful content. Keep em’ coming. Subscriber for life. Btw the gear repair… bravo.
Thank you so much for your video. I dropped a delicate glass Christmas ornament and tried using it crazy glue, which didn’t work . Then I remembered your fabulous videos and brought out some baking soda and it works perfectly !!! So wonderful, my husband is amazed and re-thinking all sorts of problems!! Thank you!!!
I have been telling people about this very thing since the early 90s. After my grandfather fixed one of my plastic childhood toys I never forgot about it.
After watching this video I've used this trick to permantly bond my pointer finger and thumb pad together and its held up for 5 years and counting despite my best one handed efforts to undo it. 👌
I believe this will work with any fine powder. I had a piece of wood with a screw hole in it....but didn't have any baking soda. Opened up a "BC"powder ( powdered aspirin) and filled the hole, then the super glue. After it hardened, I was able to sand it and paint over the area.
This is actually a pretty well known trick in the hobby/modeling community for creating extremely durable snow/ice model bases and terrain, though I didn't realize that it was an actual chemical reaction or just how durable it was
All it does is speed up drying and it actually makes the end result considerably weaker than just super glue on its own. If you want a more durable base for your models mix sand with super glue, it is a lot stronger. Baking soda is only used to speed up hardening, nothing else.
Only thing I would have added is a comparison of plain super glue vs super glue plus baking soda on the weight holding test. Otherwise great video looking forward to more 👍
I agree, without a comparison we can’t even tell if the baking powder really does anything at all. We could be wasting baking soda because of this guy, for all we know.
I've discovered that super glue needs a bit of moisture to set properly. Often the plastic frames on my cheap reading glasses break and shrink. I tried super gluing them to the plastic lenses and they always broke again. Now I wash and rinse the glasses first which leaves enough moisture in the frame groove to "set" the super glue. So far this holds much better. The Krazyglue hard hat commercial didn't seem to add moisture or water to the test. Before my discovery of the moisture trick I found super glue to be weak and unreliable, and often resorted to epoxy. It has always seemed to work well when gluing your fingers together! There is a commercial plastic repair product that consists of a tube of super glue and an amount of black and white powder. On-line critiques were that it was just baking soda. I wonder if there is any relevant chemical reaction between the super glue and the added powders, or if they are just aggregate like the sand and rocks in concrete, or the sawdust with wood glue?
You are incredible!!! How you repaired that little yellow ?? and you made new ridges etc. what a MIND YOU HAVE !!!!!! WISH I Could BORROW it for a while !!?? ❤
Enjoyed the video, great practicality on something I've had in my house forever. Who knows how many things I've thrown out because of a broken plastic gear/piece. Wish i knew about this old school 3D printing before... Just used this to swap window caster/rollers, couldn't find the originals and had to paste the new rollers to old frame, didn't look pretty but works better than new (1 week in at least)
Saved me from throwing out a cheap drone with a broken gear wheel. I'll try fixing it tomorrow while the thunderstorms rumble outside here in central Texas.
👍I just watched this because (based on the thumbnail) I thought something was going to catch on fire or explode... Instead - I learned how to fix the exact problem I have with the hinges on one of our cabinet doors. Bravo.
Thank you so much for making and sharing this video!!! Now i can repair a hole that I drilled in a piece of plexiglass that was a little too large. ❤❤❤
Actually, cellulose works better, Cyano-acrylate reacts with wood and paper better than baking soda. Save dryer lint from cotton t-shirts or bed linen, no polyester blend. or . . use fine wood sawdust. . . Baking Soda is nice if you want "white", like on a repaired guitar top nut. But you need the fibers inside to prevent the new amalgam from cracking when it gets older.
I was wondering about this. He shows super glue with various materials such as baking soda, cotton and cement. I was curious about the advantage of each one.
How about charcoal powder (from health food store)? Would that work as well as pencil-graphite which is supposed to be super-duper? I mean, someone else mentioned Ash in these comments, so i guess charcoal is basically ash.
Impressive!! I can never get super glue to hold. I am definitely going to try this. That gear though... I wasn't sure where you were going with it at first but I was blown away with the end result. Great video!
Wear safety glasses when using super glue. It's no fun to get super glue in your eye. I was using a thin tube to apply super glue. I had the work close to my face in order to accurately place the glue. As I squeezed the bottle, the small tube popped out and the glue went into my eye. The thin tube was curved in a way which caused the tip of the glue bottle to point at my eye. Another time I had a brand new bottle of super glue. When I attempted to cut the tip of the applicator open, the super glue shot out of the tip into my eye. The glue had been packaged at lower altitude than where I live so the bottle was pressurized. Both times I managed to pry my eye open and flushed my eye with water for as long as I could stand it. I didn't have any permanent damage to my eyes but I now make sure to always were safety glasses when using super glue.
Great tips. I did the last one recently with pva and cocktail sticks and is holding up well. Blackmorph is my go to for plastic reapir but for small jobs the superglue+baking soda looks excellent.
For the last repair (the cabinet door) I probably would've used sawdust and Titebond. The gear repair was DARNED clever, esp. the hot-melt as a mold. Guitar techs use CA and baking soda for filling in nut slots that are too deep so that they can be re-cut slightly shallower to keep the strings from buzzing against the first fret.
@mrz80 - For the cabinet door alternative you suggested... Same basic method of application? Just using the different materials? I ask because I have the same cabinet hinge issue.
@@TheVoxbox13 Yep, fill the cavity with Titebond wood glue, and use your fingers to pack bits of sawdust and ends of toothpicks down in the hole. Let dry, re-drill, and run the screw back in. The baking soda and CA would work, but I think it'd be more brittle and thus likelier to break out again over time than wood glue and wood chips (which is basically what particle board is).
I have seen videos of people using cotton and super glue together to make dioramas and miniatures, it seems to do a really incredible job holding things together
I’m amazed with your talent. This takes all the fun out of making a gear on a 3-D printer, only to have it fail to stick to the heat plate. Thanks for sharing!
that's basically how epoxy glues work, but if you only have superglue and baking soda, then it works too. basically any powder works that turns into smudge when liquid is added. I've used toilet paper + superglue, works good too. cotton is also good, it depeneds what you're repairing or glueing. toilet paper is good if you need to get the glue around awkward areas, you can just spread bit of glue on surface and then cover it with toilet paper, then add more glue and make sure paper is wet enough from glue. once it cures, its rock solid.
My wife's family sail wooden square riggers and use marine epoxy to fix everything. It's become a running joke among my friends that when anything breaks we look at each other and say "you know what will fix that?...Poxy."
Wow. Great video. I love the one where you replaced teeth on the gear. As a copier technician years ago you would run into a problem with broken plastic gears which I didn’t have in my inventory and I’m three hours from the office. Or worse, the customer may have to wait what why are you order one.
Why order replacement parts when you can fix the gears with just a tube of super glue, some baking soda, a vise, hard plastic tubing the same diameter as your gear, a saw, a block of wood, some screws, a drill, aluminum tape, and sandpaper?
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what happens if you dissolve the baking soda in water and add it to the super glue, instead of using the powder form?
@@bikedawg Try it and report back.
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So, polymerization?
How does this method compare to 2 parts epoxy glue?
I'm actually extremely impressed with the gear repair hot glue mold, and the hole filler. Pretty genius.
That gear repair was genius.
I used a similar method to repair the gearbox in my Ford Focus, 45k miles later it's still shifting nicely and never misses a gear! ⚠️😲👍
The baking soda/super glue combo had me like "that's dope, I should keep that in mind (knowing I'll forget and never use it). Then I saw the gear mold and filling a drill hole and all of a sudden I have a handful of things I'm about to fix this weekend.
I would prefer to glue a wood dowel into the damaged cupboard door. But the gear repair is genius hopefully it sticks in place.
I wasn't getting it until he filled in the missing part. blew my mind.
Things to note: Small amount of powder, small amount of glue, let it set and LET IT COOL, then add a small mount of baking soda, small amount of glue.
This is a highly exothermic reaction. In large quantities it can get hot enough to melt or possibly ignite the material being repaired.
The reaction between the bicarbonate (baking soda) and the cyanoacrylate (superglue) forms polymers, or chains of atoms, which is why the resulting solid is stronger than just superglue alone.
These polymers can become brittle below freezing temperatures. Keep that in mind if your repair will be exposed to severe cold.
A good way to add your powder is to put it into a salt shaker, This helps you add small amounts at a time and breaks up the lumps into a finer powder for a neater finish.
Massively under appreciated comment - thank you!
THANK YOU! last thing i need is to start a fire in my room or i’m getting kicked out for sure
Thank you!
I saw a video where they said that this method was used for repairing helicopter blades (superglue and sodium bicarbonate). how far below freezing are you talking (becomes brittle)? have you heard this about helicopter blades?
That is absolutely correct. As a copier technician it's got me out of jams numerous times in the last 25 years.
After watching this video I'm considering constructing a house made entirely from baking soda and super glue. I will have poignant mood-music playing on site while I work.
Haha, super glue - baking soda is the new ramen?
Try super glue and cocain. It will increase the home value :)
Same!
all you rilly need is a set of redundant gears
Hahaha!
I’ve used this for years as an RV Technician to repair damaged side wheel panels and anything plastic, except we purchased an actual product of the 2 mixtures!
That showing in the fabricating the plastic gear was something I really learned from!!! Wow awesome!!!
The gear repair was genius!
Yeah, that's thinking like 5 steps ahead. Impressive.
Takes an engineer's mind & bit of work but when parts are needed but can't be found
@@paulaball8725 so true. Too often can't find the part
I was impressed by that too
I consider myself pretty good at things like this but that gear repair 🤔 I'm a dumbass.
The gear repair was worth the watch alone. I never thought of using hot glue as a mold. Absolutely brilliant!
I'll have to remember this if ever I have to repair a plastic toy gear.
Just check shrinkage as it cools.
This. I known about baking soda and super glue but never thought of the molding technique.
I've seen it done w candle wax too.
So? Hot glue and baking soda work the same as super glue and baking soda?
Wow! I never knew superglue was good for anything besides gluing dry skin together.
LOL--true
Reading this with my pointer finger and thumb stuck together from super glueing my glasses.
Me too. why does it work for everyone except me.
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Lol...
In my 40s and I cannot believe that I am just now learning about this baking soda + super glue thing... definitely a nice lil hack that will come in handy someday. Thanks for sharing 👍
I'm '60 LOL I used a Two part Epoxy kit !
My brain exploded when I saw these genius methods, but I quickly put it back together using super glue and baking soda. Thanks Inventor 101!
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Yeya!!
This is old school nothing new
_“that’s a lot of damage_ 🎵
_how ‘bout a little more!”_ 🎵
I used this on my guitar "nut" (the slotted part where the strings slide through on the head stock).The nut groove was too deep because I was going with a lighter guage string so I used super glue and baking soda it was hard as a rock when cured almost instantly. I then just cut a new slot with a razer blade an a file.That was 5 years ago still holding strong.
Rock on! 🤘😎
You define what a nut is but use headstock to define it, but I don't know what a headstock is
@@whoeverofhowevermany The headstock is the thing that holds the truss adjustment bolt. I hope this helps. 🎸
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Yes! This is the exact sort of comment I was looking for. Ive played 23+ years....somehow. I do lots of mod work, repairs, builds ECT and this is interesting stuff. Glad to hear it's good for guitar work
Finally after all these years I’ve found the way to glue bolts to my bottle tops….life changing
And just think, @teddybeargrylls6663, you found it sitting on your ass looking at you tube videos.
It wasn't hard with jbweld, but that will take one whole day.
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Dont be a wanker pal. .....ithe bottle top thing was just an example of the strength of the "WELD".I have used this combo for about 6 yrs now and have been amazed how strong the bond becomes.I wish There had been super glue when I took safaris in Botswana and Zimbabwe in the 80 s .
That plastic gear repair was some well thought out work. Well done.
Seriously, I thought it was brilliant!...
Some well thought out, meaning it can be done better?
@@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris you're thinking 'somewhat'.
But it wasn't shown how the outer gear (the mold) didn't stick to the new material that was poured into it.
@@MartyThePastaGuy because it was silicone
As far as stripped/oversized hole in wood/composite materials, you can also use pieces of wood toothpicks and saturate the hole with wood glue. Takes longer to dry but wood glue is a lot more forgiving before it sets if you make a mistake.
Sawdust works great
Will it work with all purpose flower or talkpowder?
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I doubt it, those don't have much structure.
@Dev JB Lol! Your wood filler takes 12 hours to harden?! Your wife is very patient.😉
No, he don't trust anything else but superglue n baking soda. His invention can even take down 3M.
Thank you for posting! Super glue plus baking soda seems like an incredibly easy and practical fix for so many shop and home projects. I can't wait to try some of these fixes!
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It's known for its use in repairing guitars.
Its amazing. I tried this on a broken piece of brass and it WORKS!!! I used Cyano-Acrylate and Dry Powder Graphite also, which is just as good.
I love repairing little things around the house. Will add this to my repertoire!
true mainly for when your had a screw/threaded bolt come out stripping that spot good filler to have
Don’t you mean your….. repairtroire 😏
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Then you'll need to repair the repair after failure.
Bonus points for using repertoire.
@@yahdood6015 no, you won't... :)
This really is pretty amazing. If I had known about this long ago, there are so many things I could have repaired better. I had no idea these two ingredients could form such a strong material, and bond. And thank you for showing the broken gear trick, there has actually been several times I could have used that trick to fix my sons toys.
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My friend I know this technique 35 years ago.
@@basitsiddiqui5751wow your so cool
As a hobbyist, this will now be one of my all time favorite tricks. Way cool!
Add paper towel into the mix for a material that rivals fiberglass epoxy.
WHY DO THEY NEED BAKING SODA
Sure
@@Keys879shavings or like a lasagna?
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I've used this trick for years to fix my kiddos toys. So glad someone made a video 👍
The gear repair was genius. Then I saw the particle board. Mind blown. Life changed forever. 👏
any normal wood glue with do the same on particle board, if you use wood glue to join 2 pieces of particle board together, it will break the wood itself long before the join will break under pressure.
@@notfiveo Yeah see there's tons of ways to repair holes that will last, but what I find most intriguing is the sheer speed with great durability. I was hearing someone talk about how a luthier swears by using baking soda and super glue, and that's what got me thinking about it.
You can buy this for yourself and it's already done it's called "Q bond"
You dont have to be a hack and use baking soda...
Trust me you think you're life is changed now...
Go buy some Q bond, and fix literally anything from ceramic cook pots to water pumps, it ridiculously strong.
Just do it trust me
Used baking soda and super glue to fix my sour attitude at work. Got a raise!!!
Thanks Super Glue Guy!!! 💪
So many wanna be stand up clowns here
@@WestCoastUSA546 do you need a Trauma Doll to show us where the humor hurt you sweetheart??? 🤡
@@WestCoastUSA546 so?
Ha ha ha ha 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I need to try this
Loved the repair for the gear, thanks!!! 💖
I discovered this powerful combo by accident when I was cleaning out a cluttered sink cabinet & found a spill turned into an unbreakable solid.
I use it for so many repairs now, works great for so many different surfaces. A Dremel is useful for smoothing out sharp edges, getting even surfaces, buffing for a shine AND for sanding off accidental glue globs 😬.
When repairing ceramics, if a crack will be large & noticable, I'll add the base pigment (of whatever it is I'm repairing) in powder form to the baking soda so that after it dries, all I have to do, if anything, is paint any small details with acrylics.
*As a note, if you plan on using pigment, you'll likely need to double the pigment to offset the white soda. And always test your pigment/soda ratio for the right shade BEFORE applying superglue!
All in all, in using this stuff & learning different tricks, I've got to point where even I have trouble finding where the repair was made!
I've used this for many years but recently came across someone who uses graphite or a graphite and baking soda mix (sodium bicarbonate or bicarb in the UK).
The results of using graphite are even more astounding ... stronger and harder than without!
Fixing cogs the way shown is ingenious though as it saves any post op filing or sanding to shape of the teeth. I must try it on metal cogs using graphite to check just how strong that can be! 👍👍👍
I did this trick when working on a craft project. Things to note: first, the glue dries almost immediately when mixed with the baking soda, so you have to work fast, and second, it is very hard to get a smooth surface. You will have to heavily sand, to the point of using a Dremel tool, go get it close to smooth.
You don't have to work fast at all if you do it correctly. Don't drop it in as it starts hardening. Drop it in first and then harden it.
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I reattached my severed fingers after a tragic milk carton accident this morning and have already fully recovered thanks to this video! I only wish I'd added some cinnamon or mint to the baking soda for a pleasant post op scent.
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Good one!!! Thanks for the laugh!!!!
Actually, 😌
Apparently if you break a china plate or chip a cup, and realign the pieces while soaking it in milk (buttermilk 🤔...i forget) ... The porous ceramic edges will 'mend' back together!
@@theriddlerUSA Riddle me this. What happens when you use super glue and baking soda on severed digits? Sticky fingers!
@@RLaraMoore So what you're saying is if you never want to chip a china cup, only drink buttermilk because it will instantly mend itself the moment it's dropped! 😂
The gear being repaired was very poignant to me. All that effort in a throwaway world goes largely unappreciated by the largely unappreciative population. I liked it lots!
I had an electric pencil sharpener in which the nylon drive gear disintegrated. I found a 3d-printed replacement for ten bucks on eBay that let me keep a cool old bit of office supply out of the landfill.
You have literally brought new meaning into my humble existence
40 years old I've never seen anyone do this or even mention it before!! Thanks for the solid tips !!
I know right? Who the hell knew about this secret and kept it to themselves for all these years? Bastards! Could have used it many times.
Marling Baits viewers have been seeing this trick for years. Still a mystery as to how it works so damn well thoughj
I learned about this about 40 years ago so I guess I've known of it your entire life...
"Solid tips" was that a deliberate pun? If so, then this is the best comment here.
@@JohnnySins-tk5rl In the main comments someone briefly explains the science behind this chemical reaction. It's really quite fascinating.
That was way more useful than I thought it was going to be. Good job.
Baking soda is great for many DIY projects. It's good for setting plaster too, making it last longer when spreading.
I didn’t realize this was such a life changing experience for 27million people. I and others have literally used this for miniatures repairs and other things for decades.
my life has been falling apart but thanks to this video I can finally put it back together. I will build a monument out of super glue and baking soda in honor of super glue and baking soda. I want to share this with the world. It is truly life changing. thank you my friend
Thank you for the smile it put on my face....have a great day...
Watt's Towers Redux!
🤣👍👏
Hobby train enthusiasts and miniature painters commonly recommend superglue and baking soda for bonding because the baking soda also fills in the gaps! Thanks for the video!
Thanks to this, I made myself a new tooth for my tooth hole without a dentist!
Things taste odd and sometimes I smell colors, but damn is it solid!
Lol!!
Man that was funny as hell!
😂😅😂❤
You the man
😅😅😅😅
I’ve been doing this for years, and it works every time. Also you can also bond metals if you aluminum power as media instead of baking soda for metals.
This is about a million times better than every "life hack" video Facebook Reels has EVER showed me combined.
Seriously
The most useful video I ever watched in my entire life! Thank you for sharing!
Your life must suck big time.
😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thats what happens if you live in a dark cave.
New trick for me. Definitely going in my knowledge banks. Definitely has a lot of practical purposes for quick repairs.
Most everyone has super glue but few people have wood putty and liquid steel handy, let alone so quick drying. I mean instantly drying. Much faster drying than a puddle of super glue alone and the strength is amazing.
I never knew combining glue and baking soda could create such strong and instant results. Your tutorial makes it look so easy!
I've seen this done in toy car restoration. It actually works really well for particular purposes. You can sand it into shape, much like plastic. And it does paint up well too. Has the consistency of hard plastic
It sands like plastic and has the consistency of plastic because it is plastic. The reaction forms polymer chains.
Genius
For wood repair I use saw dust from the same wood to make it somewhat invisible after sanding and polishing.
where do you find the saw dust from the same wood?
@@TomatoTomato911 you can sand some away
@@TomatoTomato911 Yes, as Mr. Manuel said. You can collect some from either sawing, filing, sanding, or drilling from the same wood piece you're repairing. That's why when I'm wood crafting, I collect some debris just in case of repairs or filling in some holes/cracks.
And you make a paste using wood glue or the cyanoacrylate ?
@@maximeb190 wood glue
I just used super glue, baking powder and a popsicle stick to cure my ED.
Thank you!!
Me, too, except I used a yardstick.
@@MrTruckerf 😂
Rock hard now 😂
Just remember the warning about sub-freezing temperatures...
Nice video man and great idea! I like the practical use of this. Who would have thought that combining baking soda and cyanoacrylate would create such a strong substance for use as a replacement for various parts-stronger than cyanoacrylate alone. Going to try this to fix some drawers and as an underlying layer in a wood door, which hole became stripped, to place screws in. 👍🏻 Keep up the novel ideas and the great work 👍🏻
I used this trick to put a base on a D&D monster mini once. I had to use some thin cardboard, but I also used this technique to build up the base a bit like it was terrain under its feet. :-) Looked really good actually.
I used to do the same, only with extra thick CA and store bought CA accelerator to assemble the minis, then the glue plus grass or sand from model railroading for the terrain. A well painted miniature deserves a nice base.
Thanks for this!! Just fixed my door handle which was broken for 3 months!! Couldn't find baking soda so used corn flour and it worked perfectly!!! 😄😄
Hmmmm..maybe youre onto something..
I think any powder would work. It acts as structural filler since the glue alone is watery and runs thin
@@BlackJeepConvertible maybe non-silicate though? Or maybe sand does work, hard to say...
Couldn't find baking soda? Are you on a dessert island ?
@@tsfurlan called his house 🤣
Seen a man fix a hole in his boat in the Philippines 🇵🇭 the exact same method I was astonished on how superglue and baking soda was so strong
Does the baking soda chemically react or does it just act as a strengthening filler?
@@soundspark "Chemically, the bicarbonate molecules in baking soda react with cyanoacrylate to create a reactive ion that more easily bonds with other cyanoacrylate molecules. These bonds establish long, polymer chains that are stronger and more resilient than cyanoacrylate-water bonding. The resultant substance is a super glue and baking soda plastic with a cement-like consistency that creates stronger, exceptionally durable bonds." Was wondering the same thing.
@@viper1431, I would have tried to sit next to you in class. Thanks for the explanation!
@@servant72 I'm thinking wikipedia
@@viper1431 Great explanation! Question... is this the similar type of liquid glue created that uses UV light to quickly harden instead of the baking soda? Or are they the same thing?
This is a great knowledge grab. I always have super glue and baking soda around. Now I can even fix stripped holes on furniture!
Kudos!!
OMG! I've never seen anything like this before, but you can dang sure bet I will remember and use this at some point in the future. WOW! Thank you!
I can think of at least a dozen times that I could have used this idea in the past and I am sure I will be using this method in the future. Great to the point video.
The gear repair was pure genius!
I love the editing. Everything is slightly sped up but the blowing of the soda slows to normal speed and you hear the blowing noise-----perfect!
This is great to know.
I liked how you fixed the cogwheel.
But I found it especially helpful to know that it's possible to use this method as a hole filler 👍💕
You can just jam toothpicks or matchsticks in the hole, then reinsert the screws.
You know what else makes for a good hole filler...
Another way to repair holes in wood is to drill it to the size of a dowel, glue the dowel in the hole with wood glue and then trim… once it’s dried the repair is stronger than the chipboard as dowels are made of hardwood
I’ve seen this trick before but your examples are the first that gave me so much inspiration. I can go fix a couple of things now. Thanks!
I’m seriously going to try this on a drawer knob that keeps falling out. I’ve tried everything else, couldn’t hurt might help. Thanks for posting this!
Me too!
i was thinking the same thing lol i have a knob on my desk drawer that won’t stay in
Updates? Hows the drawer knob?
I just used Loctite Super Glue to fix a bathroom nightlight, and the superglue didn't work. I was regluing a shell to the plastic switch. I was very disappointed! I decided to do a search for glue that would adhere a sea shell and plastic together. I found nothing, but I found your channel. I said, what do I have to lose? I tried it and it worked wonders. That shell's go'in no where! What a wonderful gift from above. I thank the Lord, and I thank you!
This man rediscovered 3d printing
I was thinking the same thing lol
This is way stronger than any consumer 3d printing... they use this kind of fix on helicopter rotors.. it's insane how durable a usually brittle substance (acrylic) get when it bonds with a proper filler
That is the coolest thing I've seen for ages! I'm now looking at stuff to break just so I can fix it again!!!
A lot of us nerds have known about the baking soda trick for quite some time. Chemistry is awesome. Thank you for sharing this super cool trick for the masses!
Is chemistry involved here? I thought it was simply adding some structure like when you add sawdust to wood glue to fill a hole or imperfection. It works well for low strength structural repair like as seen in this video. Is there something more complex going on here at a chemical level?
@@xmo552 - Yes there is a chemical reaction taking place that creates "longer polymer strands" as someone explained in an earlier comment.
@@aleanufopilotftlcertified5663
Didn't catch it. Thanks for the insight.
@@xmo552 - You're quite welcome.
I wish I’d seen this video 20 years ago. I can think of a thousand times this would have been extremely helpful to fix things.
Done this on multiple laptops for hinge repairs. Useful when you have such narrow parameters to work with. it can also help to use less glue initially and do several applications, or mix the powder in.
Thanks for verifying that it really works even for plastic laptop repairs. I will fix the loose socket of my laptop now😀
@@IsaacLoven - Isn't the internet (and TH-cam in particular) a wonderful thing? Especially for sharing hacks, ideas, etc?
My laptops heat-pressed nuts pulled out but this trick didn't work. I had to loosen the hinges too.
I put 2 videos up on the repair.
@@aleanufopilotftlcertified5663 Yes. Scammers really love it too.
I learned this trick years ago. A Super Glue bond is pretty brittle, but if you mix it with just a pinch of baking soda (no need to dump it on like in the video) it hardens like concrete. You'd have to saw the bond apart once it's hardened. But you have to be very quick because you only have a few short seconds once they mix.
Use a drinking straw to place the baking soda in hard to reach places or when you just want to add small amounts at a time. Great way to build up fine gussets too.
One of the better DIY videos on TH-cam.
This trick also works well on minor vinyl window cracks/holes and fiberglass bathtubs. May need to apply a light clear coat or color matched coating.
Wow! I am absolutely amazed … the very thought that you can repair and mend almost anything with super glue, baking soda and sawdust. Who knew? Thank you so much for your insightful content. Keep em’ coming. Subscriber for life. Btw the gear repair… bravo.
Thank you so much for your video. I dropped a delicate glass Christmas ornament and tried using it crazy glue, which didn’t work . Then I remembered your fabulous videos and brought out some baking soda and it works perfectly !!!
So wonderful, my husband is amazed and re-thinking all sorts of problems!!
Thank you!!!
Cap
@@sawboss5794 facts my nigga G
Came for the baking soda and glue, stayed for this banger of a song.
Sosso by Magnus Ludvigsson
I literally have three warehouses full of superglue, baking soda, bolts, nuts, and plastic bottle caps. Now I know what to do with them. Thanks!
Hello vault dweller. How goes it in the commonwealth?
I have 5 warehouses full
@Peter I just checked my stock it's almost 6 warehouses of this stuff.
@@p098098098 you win!
I've been so frustrated in the past with the inefficiency of super glue on repairs. This will help. Thank you.
But there are also different qualities. I also was disappointed by some brands. And definitely no superglue gel anymore. Must try out different brands
I have been telling people about this very thing since the early 90s. After my grandfather fixed one of my plastic childhood toys I never forgot about it.
After watching this video I've used this trick to permantly bond my pointer finger and thumb pad together and its held up for 5 years and counting despite my best one handed efforts to undo it. 👌
I believe this will work with any fine powder. I had a piece of wood with a screw hole in it....but didn't have any baking soda. Opened up a "BC"powder ( powdered aspirin) and filled the hole, then the super glue. After it hardened, I was able to sand it and paint over the area.
Bc has baking soda and other anti caking agents that are also a base.
So really the baking soda's just filler it doesn't react with super glue
Baking soda has the benefit of being cheap, non toxic, and probably already in your kitchen though
What about perfumed bath powder? 😆🤩 After all, it's just very fine talcum dust-IDK if it's toxic for this use
@@epluribusunum6622 ramen nudle has the same caking agent as well? 😉
This is actually a pretty well known trick in the hobby/modeling community for creating extremely durable snow/ice model bases and terrain, though I didn't realize that it was an actual chemical reaction or just how durable it was
Used for glasses repairs too. No longer a trick but more of science.
All it does is speed up drying and it actually makes the end result considerably weaker than just super glue on its own. If you want a more durable base for your models mix sand with super glue, it is a lot stronger. Baking soda is only used to speed up hardening, nothing else.
Only thing I would have added is a comparison of plain super glue vs super glue plus baking soda on the weight holding test. Otherwise great video looking forward to more 👍
I agree, without a comparison we can’t even tell if the baking powder really does anything at all.
We could be wasting baking soda because of this guy, for all we know.
I've discovered that super glue needs a bit of moisture to set properly. Often the plastic frames on my cheap reading glasses break and shrink. I tried super gluing them to the plastic lenses and they always broke again. Now I wash and rinse the glasses first which leaves enough moisture in the frame groove to "set" the super glue. So far this holds much better. The Krazyglue hard hat commercial didn't seem to add moisture or water to the test. Before my discovery of the moisture trick I found super glue to be weak and unreliable, and often resorted to epoxy. It has always seemed to work well when gluing your fingers together!
There is a commercial plastic repair product that consists of a tube of super glue and an amount of black and white powder. On-line critiques were that it was just baking soda.
I wonder if there is any relevant chemical reaction between the super glue and the added powders, or if they are just aggregate like the sand and rocks in concrete, or the sawdust with wood glue?
@@henrikaugustsson4041 it makes it set immediately at least lol no waiting time
I actually think I learned a few different things. This was actually creatively useful.
Anyone else click on this video thinking the glue and powder would explode?
Yes!
Yeah, 😕 gutted. F”ing DIY stuff that looks easy, but that I’d defo screw up wasn’t what I was looking for 😠
Yep.
Guilty!
I thought it was exploding when he was blowing it off.
This felt like a mystical experience instead of a simple glue trick.
I’m glad you had the experience. I am still waiting to be amazed. Is that is a part two?
@@MarcosElMalo2 Watch it while slightly intoxicated, if you are legally old enough to that is.
I love the choice of music. This video was oddly calming
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Does anyone have the name and artist?
@@acudaican th-cam.com/video/v8tA617gPeE/w-d-xo.html
Id love to know the artist too
@Av Latta Meguca 老爺 @@justinmansoer4385
Heyo 👋 I just looked it up, the song's name is 'Sosso' by Magnus Ludvigsson
You are incredible!!! How you repaired that little yellow ?? and you made new ridges etc. what a MIND YOU HAVE !!!!!! WISH I Could BORROW it for a while !!?? ❤
I could fix a kitchen drawer using the final tip. Thanks!
Enjoyed the video, great practicality on something I've had in my house forever. Who knows how many things I've thrown out because of a broken plastic gear/piece. Wish i knew about this old school 3D printing before... Just used this to swap window caster/rollers, couldn't find the originals and had to paste the new rollers to old frame, didn't look pretty but works better than new (1 week in at least)
Saved me from throwing out a cheap drone with a broken gear wheel. I'll try fixing it tomorrow while the thunderstorms rumble outside here in central Texas.
👍I just watched this because (based on the thumbnail) I thought something was going to catch on fire or explode...
Instead - I learned how to fix the exact problem I have with the hinges on one of our cabinet doors. Bravo.
Thank you so much for making and sharing this video!!! Now i can repair a hole that I drilled in a piece of plexiglass that was a little too large. ❤❤❤
Speak to anyone who does any kind of plastic or resin modelling ... we've used this for years. Always good to share with some newbies though 🤷🏼♀️
I’m that newbie. I never work with plastic or resin so this video is amazing to me. Glad these trucks are being shared.
Always share
Give super props and praise to this guy.. he's a Genius.👍🏾👍🏾
Actually, cellulose works better, Cyano-acrylate reacts with wood and paper better than baking soda. Save dryer lint from cotton t-shirts or bed linen, no polyester blend. or . . use fine wood sawdust. . . Baking Soda is nice if you want "white", like on a repaired guitar top nut. But you need the fibers inside to prevent the new amalgam from cracking when it gets older.
Actually a great point! Thank you, now I have a use for all that dryer lint!
What about dog hair? I have plenty of that.
I was wondering about this. He shows super glue with various materials such as baking soda, cotton and cement. I was curious about the advantage of each one.
@@Guruc13 research pencil graphite baking soda
How about charcoal powder (from health food store)? Would that work as well as pencil-graphite which is supposed to be super-duper? I mean, someone else mentioned Ash in these comments, so i guess charcoal is basically ash.
I’ve recently used this technique a couple of times. Works great.
Impressive!! I can never get super glue to hold. I am definitely going to try this. That gear though... I wasn't sure where you were going with it at first but I was blown away with the end result. Great video!
Meanwhile at Harbor Freight Tools - "We have that replacement gear here for $1.49."
Wear safety glasses when using super glue. It's no fun to get super glue in your eye.
I was using a thin tube to apply super glue. I had the work close to my face in order to accurately place the glue. As I squeezed the bottle, the small tube popped out and the glue went into my eye. The thin tube was curved in a way which caused the tip of the glue bottle to point at my eye.
Another time I had a brand new bottle of super glue. When I attempted to cut the tip of the applicator open, the super glue shot out of the tip into my eye. The glue had been packaged at lower altitude than where I live so the bottle was pressurized.
Both times I managed to pry my eye open and flushed my eye with water for as long as I could stand it. I didn't have any permanent damage to my eyes but I now make sure to always were safety glasses when using super glue.
Glad you are Ok. Thanks for the good advice. 👍😁
I have a friend that was building rc planes, and went to put some eye drops in his eye. You can guess the rest.
@@lamarw7757 I did that with peroxide once. That wasn’t funny
Twice? That's like getting struck by lightning ...
Glad you managed to get out of a sticky situation.
Absolutely brilliant I love what you guys do with a baking soda and the instant glue thank you .
Great tips. I did the last one recently with pva and cocktail sticks and is holding up well. Blackmorph is my go to for plastic reapir but for small jobs the superglue+baking soda looks excellent.
For the last repair (the cabinet door) I probably would've used sawdust and Titebond.
The gear repair was DARNED clever, esp. the hot-melt as a mold.
Guitar techs use CA and baking soda for filling in nut slots that are too deep so that they can be re-cut slightly shallower to keep the strings from buzzing against the first fret.
I just put a small piece of thick paper under the string.
@mrz80 - For the cabinet door alternative you suggested... Same basic method of application? Just using the different materials? I ask because I have the same cabinet hinge issue.
@@TheVoxbox13 Yep, fill the cavity with Titebond wood glue, and use your fingers to pack bits of sawdust and ends of toothpicks down in the hole. Let dry, re-drill, and run the screw back in. The baking soda and CA would work, but I think it'd be more brittle and thus likelier to break out again over time than wood glue and wood chips (which is basically what particle board is).
@@TheVoxbox13 or better use a dowel that IS tight fitting. With wood glue the pressure is very important for durability.
Superglue and cotton works too.
Sounds like it uses the same principle as concrete reinforced with steel rebar.
I have seen videos of people using cotton and super glue together to make dioramas and miniatures, it seems to do a really incredible job holding things together
So it works kind of like fiberglass? That's interesting.
Thanks for the tips man! I can fix so many things I couldn't before.
I’m amazed with your talent. This takes all the fun out of making a gear on a 3-D printer, only to have it fail to stick to the heat plate. Thanks for sharing!
that's basically how epoxy glues work, but if you only have superglue and baking soda, then it works too. basically any powder works that turns into smudge when liquid is added. I've used toilet paper + superglue, works good too. cotton is also good, it depeneds what you're repairing or glueing. toilet paper is good if you need to get the glue around awkward areas, you can just spread bit of glue on surface and then cover it with toilet paper, then add more glue and make sure paper is wet enough from glue. once it cures, its rock solid.
Another commentor mentioned that cellulose (wood fiber in the toilet paper) works better than baking soda.
My wife's family sail wooden square riggers and use marine epoxy to fix everything. It's become a running joke among my friends that when anything breaks we look at each other and say "you know what will fix that?...Poxy."
Holy hell. My kitchen cabinet door just broke last week and this video is a godsend!
Just what I was thinking!
Did you try it yet?
@@MrPlannery I did, and this was a godsend! My cabinet door is good as new. I even filled in a few old screw holes in the garage.
@@batmanofsanantonio5331 I'm looking for things that need fixing so I can try this...
Wow. Great video. I love the one where you replaced teeth on the gear. As a copier technician years ago you would run into a problem with broken plastic gears which I didn’t have in my inventory and I’m three hours from the office. Or worse, the customer may have to wait what why are you order one.
Why order replacement parts when you can fix the gears with just a tube of super glue, some baking soda, a vise, hard plastic tubing the same diameter as your gear, a saw, a block of wood, some screws, a drill, aluminum tape, and sandpaper?