it's time for my first handy Tech under 100 and this time we're going to get
hard and sticky so come along and let's fix your pipe manage your cables and
then cool you off at the
end the Arya headphones from Phoenix come complete with a cardioid clip mic
and acoustic Chambers constructed entirely of Japanese Pinewood check it
out in the link below starting us off with number one is fiber
fix it's a resin product that can bond to metal and wood that's available in a
patch a heat wrap and a repair wrap
that's the one that I bought it claims that it can Harden like steel sounds
great I'm in so to put it to the test I cut through a table leg support with an
angle grinder then I followed the fiber fix instructions by preparing the
surface around the brake by sanding it down with the included sandpaper a
little bit and I included some in just to make it go a bit faster then I put on
my gloves and dunked the fiberfix wrap underwater for about 5 Seconds now
fiberfix doesn't adhere the same way traditional tape does I had to wrap the
first few layers carefully making sure they were at least in the right location
then with subsequent layers I cranked it in a little bit to make sure that it was
all tight following this I wrapped some of the included vinyl strips on top of
that also cranking those down and let it sit for about 15 minutes to cure before
removing the vinyl then it was time to test
it okay so it did come off but that's
actually because I deformed the entire pipe against The Rock the problem here
wasn't the strength or rigidity of the fiber fix it was its ability to adhere
to the pipe which I did score quite a bit although admittedly I didn't get all
of the paint off but the fact of the matter is I can still pull the remaining still unbroken
part out of the end I would suggest using fiberfix along with some type of
super glue or Gorilla Glue depending on the project I'm very happy with its
strength but I'm not a huge fan of its adherence watch this real quick you're
not going to see this completely on camera
but there I can just pull it right
out next up we have item number two
sugru its creators call it moldable glue
and after taking however much you need out of the package you can stick it to
loads of different things like Ceramics glass metal and wood along with most
Plastics and even Fabrics you then have 30 minutes to fix Bond cushion replace
mold seal and stick things together then
after waiting 24 hours sugaru will turn into a durable flexible silicone rubber
that in the vast majority of cases will stay stuck permanently unless you decide
to remove it sugru can stand up to some pretty intense conditions as well it's
temperature resistant up to 180° C or
down to 50° CSUS its dishwasher safe
weatherproof and even resist the effects of the ever dreaded salt water it's
shock resistant UV resistant and it's even electrically insulating below 24
volts acceptable for small electronics projects I had John use it for a number
of things including some cable management cable strengthening mounting
and SSD in a computer case and more if
you'd like to see a huge range of stuff that sugu can do check out their Tech
DIY outdoors and general tips sections
on their site I was originally going to make a video on Channel Super Fun about
this stuff way back in 2014 but ended up
using it all before we got around to it uh it's pretty great which brings us to
our third and final handy sticky Product Arctic Silver thermal adhesive this
stuff is the real deal I mean it includes a warning stating that yes it
is a permanent adhesive components that you attach with Arctic Silver thermal
adhesive will stay attached forever your
7 G of thermal adhesive is split in 3.5
G Parts across syringe a and syringe B
you'll need to mix these parts like an epoxy in equal 1:1 ratios on some sort
of tray that you don't mind throwing away after mixing you can use the
included mini spatula to apply the solution to your heat sink or chip or
whatever you're trying to stick together wait for it to cure and voila
permanently adhered thermal transfer with solid performance to boot it's
Arctic Silver right so it has 62 to 65%
silver content by weight pretty intense
you can learn more about why this matters here but why would you want this
well if you're doing a mod to a graphics car which will remove the cooling on a
few chips or just working on a smaller Electronics project it can often be
useful to be able to add heat sinks in places where there aren't holes to mount
them by traditional means and since thermal stickers perform worse and don't
hold very well under any kind of weight load and drilling through the PCB
randomly is obviously a terrible idea
this is better than nothing which brings us finally to the full disclosure part
of these handy Tech episodes lonus originally included this section since
they're structured more as a recommendation to buy with links below
to Amazon versus a review I personally think this was a wise choice so without
further Ado item one the fiberfix was purchased by me to use for work Teran
suggested we get it when lonus broke the trailer and while he already found a
solution for that it seemed like a great idea to have some around in the future
for just any whatever use case item two the sugu was sent to us by sugru
themselves for use around the office and we told them since we already had
experience with the product a couple years ago that we were pretty sure it
would make its way into a video at some point this is that video item three the
thermal adhesive was purchased by lonus to put the dam 6700k back together again
because it's been apart for a really long time and the tube of thermal
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