KTMphil
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How about this for repairing some emergency repairs on the road - broken gps mount/ goggles/ headlight/ fuel tank/ crank case/ phone etc....
To summarize, it's a malleable repair rubber that comes in a sealed packet, once opened, it can be molded into shape and sets overnight into silicone rubber. Could be useful in situations where the repair area flexes and needs some elasticity to it and an epoxy fix might crack or loose its bond through the movement.
[video=youtube_share;8fOSo_EN-y4]http://youtu.be/8fOSo_EN-y4[/video]
New gadgets, new games, new apps: If you read about tech stuff much (and the fact that you're reading this suggests you might), the endless gusher of the new can get old. But what about a new material? Sugru bills itself as a "new self-setting rubber," devised for everyday people to make routine fixes and improvements to material goods. The little packs of Play-Doh-like stuff can be hand-molded to patch frays and cracks in a variety of objects, or even sculpt ergonomic add-ons like grips and tabs onto things made of plastic, wood, glass and so on. This rather amazing demo video suggested an intersection of high-tech form with workaday function, and sounded interesting enough to explore in the Yahoo! News Test Kitchen. So I got some.
First, here's the background. Sugru's roots go back to 2003, when a graduate student in a product design program began experimenting with material that started out hand-formable, would "cure" into something more solid and could be used to fix and improve existing objects. Years of experimentation, iteration, consultation and investment-seeking followed. Eventually the product made its way to market, and continued to evolve via user feedback. Now it has a devoted cult following in the DIY/maker world, and in the UK has begun to make inroads into more mainstream settings like brick-and-mortar stores and home-shopping TV.
When I received my batch — eight five-gram hunks of the stuff in various colors, each in a sealed packet — I was a little uncertain how to proceed. The packaging offers some suggestions for first fixes, but the directions seemed willfully vague. Perhaps I'm used to products that more or less dictate how I'm supposed to use them; in this case it was up to me.
Finally I settled on two obvious problems. First, the cracked corner of an iPod Touch, which I'd disguised with electrical tape. Second, the end of a charging cord that our dog had elected to treat as a chew toy. I busted open two packets, mushed the stuff onto my damaged goods and made an attempt to prettify my clumsy molding with an X-acto knife. This took maybe 20 minutes. Reasonably satisfied, I set my Sugru-ed objects aside. By the following morning, the stuff had hardened, as promised, into something like a medium-heft variety of rubber.
I was quite happy with the results, particularly with the iPod Touch, which now seems better protected from further damage than it did when it was "protected" by tape. Then again, my wife indicated (by way of chuckling) that my patch job on that charger cord was effective but, aesthetically speaking, pretty crude.
Thanks to Mr Ed for this.
To summarize, it's a malleable repair rubber that comes in a sealed packet, once opened, it can be molded into shape and sets overnight into silicone rubber. Could be useful in situations where the repair area flexes and needs some elasticity to it and an epoxy fix might crack or loose its bond through the movement.
[video=youtube_share;8fOSo_EN-y4]http://youtu.be/8fOSo_EN-y4[/video]
New gadgets, new games, new apps: If you read about tech stuff much (and the fact that you're reading this suggests you might), the endless gusher of the new can get old. But what about a new material? Sugru bills itself as a "new self-setting rubber," devised for everyday people to make routine fixes and improvements to material goods. The little packs of Play-Doh-like stuff can be hand-molded to patch frays and cracks in a variety of objects, or even sculpt ergonomic add-ons like grips and tabs onto things made of plastic, wood, glass and so on. This rather amazing demo video suggested an intersection of high-tech form with workaday function, and sounded interesting enough to explore in the Yahoo! News Test Kitchen. So I got some.
First, here's the background. Sugru's roots go back to 2003, when a graduate student in a product design program began experimenting with material that started out hand-formable, would "cure" into something more solid and could be used to fix and improve existing objects. Years of experimentation, iteration, consultation and investment-seeking followed. Eventually the product made its way to market, and continued to evolve via user feedback. Now it has a devoted cult following in the DIY/maker world, and in the UK has begun to make inroads into more mainstream settings like brick-and-mortar stores and home-shopping TV.
When I received my batch — eight five-gram hunks of the stuff in various colors, each in a sealed packet — I was a little uncertain how to proceed. The packaging offers some suggestions for first fixes, but the directions seemed willfully vague. Perhaps I'm used to products that more or less dictate how I'm supposed to use them; in this case it was up to me.
Finally I settled on two obvious problems. First, the cracked corner of an iPod Touch, which I'd disguised with electrical tape. Second, the end of a charging cord that our dog had elected to treat as a chew toy. I busted open two packets, mushed the stuff onto my damaged goods and made an attempt to prettify my clumsy molding with an X-acto knife. This took maybe 20 minutes. Reasonably satisfied, I set my Sugru-ed objects aside. By the following morning, the stuff had hardened, as promised, into something like a medium-heft variety of rubber.
I was quite happy with the results, particularly with the iPod Touch, which now seems better protected from further damage than it did when it was "protected" by tape. Then again, my wife indicated (by way of chuckling) that my patch job on that charger cord was effective but, aesthetically speaking, pretty crude.
Thanks to Mr Ed for this.
