I agree it is great glue, I tried this 10 years ago just messing around and aplied it to two pieces of raw wood and I couldn't believe it, i tried to break it and it took a lot of force. infact the wood broke away and the join was still intact. it is the best way to get rid of styrofoam. a couple of dollars for some acetone is a small price to pay and well cheaper than store bought glue
One more reason to love your channel! As a pretty crafty person I was more excited than I should have been to find a DIY glue tip from my second favorite RU-vidr (the first being my daughter, who is a freaking awesome animator). Love ya Abs!
I use it to patch old composite wood tables that have many holes, then cover it with new plywood or plastic cover. Cool for stuff that don’t need to be perfect but cheap
Exact same stuff is sold as PVC weld, just that instead of acetone you use MEK from the fibreglass and boating suppliers. Get an old steel drum with a lock lid, and fill it with the expanded polystyrene, then pour in the 5l of acetone, and close the lid tight. Leave for an hour, open and fill again, and carry on till it is full of the liquid. When it is getting full pour into a cardboard box, well sealed sides and base, with a plastic bag liner, in thin films, and leave to evaporate, and fill up the box, so you can put it in the bin as waste. A fan full of styrene though as solid is about a shoe box full, once all the acetone is evaporated off. For a better version simply mix the acetone and MEK 50/50, and it will stick like crazy to any wood, and will also allow you to do things like stick PVC and PS plastic to wood, or each other easily. Just note it will dissolve PVC and PS finishes, and will tend to degrade the surface around till it evaporates. Also will fix cracked plastic parts, though the surface will be crazed, so only on non visible parts, or from the rear side. to use as crack filler make it more MEK, it does dissolve the PS better.
This was great information! I just got rid of so much foam- 2 jars one pure white one from packaging and one had color from companies who printed on the styrofoam cups or food containers and color egg cartons. I wasn’t taught about the smooth surface vrs the opposite. Thank you so much for showing all it can be used for!
Yes the dumpsite charges the same for 40kg of polystyrene as for a 5 ton truck load of mixed rubbish, as it is the same volume. Same for tyres, they charge a very high price, because they do not compact well.
Since yesterday I’ve been down a rabbit hole of learning cool new ways to reuse plastic waste. I’d known about styrofoam dissolving in acetone for years and just now started wondering if the dissolved styrene has any uses. This video was the perfect thing to satisfy my curiosity. I’ll pass on getting high from the evaporating acetone as volatile solvents are very unhealthy to be inhaling. But I will look into experimenting with using polystyrene changed by acetone as a wood glue/gap filler/casting material. I have to resist the temptation to say the acetone dissolves it because the acetone and polystyrene don’t form a solution, they form a mixture where the polystyrene is changed but very easy to physically separate from the acetone and the recovered acetone is unchanged by the process.
Despite being about as crafty as a slug, I got quite excited to see this tip, Abs! My best friend's husband is a modern day wizard/renaissance man. He has taught himself how to make amazing daggers and knives, and can Frankenstein the most amazing tools and vehicles from combining bizarre things. I immediately shared it with him. If I cannot afford to buy an arcade game from you (even the smaller scale one, which I love, BTW) because of that terribly inconvenient Pacific Ocean and 7/8ths of North America being in the way, I can at least hope he can make me one following your videos! LOL
honestly i love adhesives. and I thank you ever so much for this tip! I use styrofoam as an armature for sculpturs, finishing off with joint compound, paint & poly. or fiber glass pain & poly. but know learning this acetone trick opens up some keen new ideas. I thank ya again :) "quick steel " is a brand name 'round here, it's my personal preference to "bondo" to most any other 2 part epoxy. Thank Dr. Bronner for his magic soap!, that and a nail file is needed to clean hands after. when i remember i'll use a bit of silicone to prep my hands when dealiing with adhesives i dont want stuck yo me - yes, sometimes my hands are held together with super glue :) . which is a favorite glue for so many reason, add baking soda and it drys instantly and harder than it has any right to be
His language didn't bother you? Sad if Young ones are looking this up and have to hear this. Besides, he just discovered this on RU-vid the same as we did.
Is there a way to make this work on paper? I use a LOT of Fabri-tac glue because I make folios for people. So I cover 8x11.5 pieces of board with paper I don't want to end up having bubbles. And how would it be stored?
I wouldn't handle it with your bare hands. Acetone goes right through your skin and into your blood stream. It's not very toxic because your body naturally makes it, but the styrene also goes for the ride.
I am keeping my Acetone Glue in a small glass Jar with some acetone to cover the glue. I don't want to empty all of the Acetone from the jar because I dont want the glue to dry up to fast and become Rock hard. I this a good way to keep my Acetone Glue soft and to preserve it longer? 🤓 ❤ 👍👍 👁
Thanks for the tip. I was wondering how to store it. So it sounds like the "glue" is very similar to WOOD FILLER, in that it needs to have a layer of acetone in the container to keep it from drying out.
@@Omegaweapon TOTALLY SWEET❣️. Hopefully it will help fix the leg hole on my deck table🙏 Do you know how durable it is in the outdoor elements? Thank you 💝
@@Omegaweapon the soap formula would be easier to pressurize and spray a longer distance without any clogs. I think the styropalm would plug up the nozzle. Maybe a pinch of diesel mixed in just for the aroma.
I made napalm about 20 yrs ago. I was 12 😂 my cousin and I were messing around. We always did experiments, usually survivalist type things like traps. Once we built a fort/ underground shelter in the side of a hill with a fireplace, chimney, and everything lol we'd also do chemistry. So he had seen something about gas and styrofoam making napalm. We thought that was amazing and might help us build more efficient fires in bad weather. We had a metal coffee can which we put regular gasoline in and started melting down any styrofoam trash we found. After a few days and the gas evaporated enough for us to get the slime and make tacky balls out of it. We had built a small catapult in the meantime... so you can guess what our 1st and most dangerous experiment was. We made a ball about the size of a baseball, loaded it onto the catapult, set it on fire, and we were going to launch the fire ball into a fire pit with wood and see if we could set long distance fires, we had this idea from when my uncle tried pouring gas on a fire pit and when he lit it, it exploded from the fumes, so we thought this would be a safer option 😅 we launched the ball but something happened and we missed terribly!!! It splatted a good long way past our target and hit the pool deck. The wooden pool deck. Made of flammable wood. To shorten this tale I ended up having to get a spatula, scrap the fire glob off, then plunge it into a bucket of water. A little scraping and sandpaper and we 'fixed' the damage😅 Bottom line, very flammable, effective weapon of destruction if paired with catapult. The end. 😂
There’s a separate app called RU-vid Kids for content like that, he shouldn’t have to change the way he speaks just because people like you want him to.
@Jaquavis with your response, I can only hope you are not raising any children. If you are, I would only hope they have better influences than only yours.
@@Allamericanhotrods yikes, the world doesn’t revolve around you and your kids buddy. Most of us enjoy this guys content just the way it is, if you don’t like it you can go find another video 🤦♂️
Hahaha! ....penis joke! Seriously, thanks 4 that little force test, very educative or ?? knowledgeable??, is that the word? Sorry, english ain't my native language.
