Liquid plastic that cures when exposed to their included LED. Seems like it’d be extremely useful for flashlight modding. Works as wire insulation!
Sold on Amazon, probably elsewhere too.
Interesting.
I wish they would have repaired the glasses in one video w/o editing…as well as the hook at the end.
Interesting.
When I have something plastic to repair, I just use the hot air gun, heat it till it's melting and use more melted plastic to repair it. It's a more permanent bond that way. Plastic coat hangers are a good source for plastic rod to use for melting, for plastic repair, or plastic lids if you need softer plastic for repair.
i may buy some of this to try it out.
Bond what?
I’m gonna try to pick up some of this stuff as well. Thinking it might be a great way to do all kinds of stuff from mounting e-switch boards into hosts down to possibly using it as a (likely irreversible) potting compound for some electronics. Since they’re showing it as working for repairing wire insulation, seems like it ought to be good for keeping components in place (for instance… if you’re mounting flashlights on firearms). Should be a bunch of different uses for this in modding flashlights if it works in real life like it does in the video. Granted — not entirely different from what it sounds like OL is doing already… just potentially more convenient. I’d mainly like to know more about how it works as an insulator. And if it’ll bond to metal.
I had this, some years ago. Came in a nice tin box and advertising was promising….
But it doesn’t stick very well so I wouldn’t call it a glue, you have to use a lot around something like they show on the glasses(the whole break is covered like a shrink tube around the defect) to make something hold together. Also you have to shine on it to cure so you can’t use it on things which are fitted together because no lights shines in the gap.
I am very disappointed I used it once or twice and than it was unusable because it doesn’t came out of the tube anymore.
Other than that it is funny how fast it hardens if you shine uv on it, really magical and amazing. After curing it is hard and feels like plastic.
Fastech sells kafuter uv glue a huge bottle for small price which I also have but don’t have used it until now.
$22.50 for ~0.8 product weight…
If you need liquid plastic, use super glue.
If you need well insulating potting glue, or particularly strong glue use epoxy (slow cure for better strength/toughness, fast cure is cheaper).
For flexible plastics, hot glue is perfect.
For hairline cracks in rigid plastics, try solvent welding (MEK/butanone or acetone if it doesn’t need to be pretty).
Found this while browsing the BangGood site.
3D Printing Pen Drawing Art Crafting Tool
Looks like it might actually be useful but I bet cleaning it to change colours is messy at best and a nightmare at worst.
"BONDIC" LED >$0.99 keychain with quick dry clear coat nail polish?
I wonder what happens if we use high powered uv flashlight to ‘bond’ the plastic…
insta superglue
It really works very fast with the small uv led, a small drop gets instantly hard.
The kafuter had after longer time still a bit soft surface, maybe my uv leds have no optimal wavelength for them.