I have been using Bondhuses for years and have nothing bad to say about them, except for the storage system. You want a small one, you have to twist everything larger out of the way.
That is true. My T handle ones all live in a custom shelf. Somehow I live with the plastic cases for the L wrenches - maybe because they are compact - but they do slightly annoy me every time I use them. But in all their years of use I’ve never wrecked one. Can’t say the same for the one Snap On set I wasted money on. Alas.
Keep my super glue in the fridge and when I need it I put it in my pocket for a few minutes to warm up , then back in the fridge. Been using the same bottle for almost three years now. 😉 !
The best super glue process i have come up with is to use the small tubes that are 1in long or so. You ca. Get 5-10 uses out of a bottle. And if it dries up you only lose a tiny anount. Bust open another one. I have found this cheaper overall as i waste less to hardening. Edit: i mean the versions that are even smaller than you show in the video. They come 5 or so to a pack, there is a cardboard back and a small plastic front for packaging, less waste than the mid size you showed encased in plastic.
Moisture diffuses through ~0.1mm of polymer on the time scale of a few hours. In addition, when flexible polymers are stretched they do not stretch uniformly - microscopic channels open up between the polymer chains further increasing the rate of moisture diffusion. So stretching electrical tape will not be very effective as you find. Aluminum foil would help, but putting the glue in the freezer, as suggested in another comment, should be much better solution.
With the amount of "dust" that came off on your fingers, I wouldn't think they'd make good stones for around your tools. The abrasive dust would get everywhere.
You are absolutely right about that. When I first got them, I rubbed them together a bunch and I didn't get any powder off them. Then. I make the video week later and now they are shedding particles like they are a soft water stone. I am not sure what changed.
Holes get bigger when a material is heated. Simple conceptual proof. Draw a circle on a plate of material. Does the circle get bigger or smaller? Bigger of course because the whole plate is expanding. Now remove the material inside the circle. The hole expands when heated. Further generalizing this idea, the holes inside a porous material have an effective expansion coefficient equal to that of the surrounding solid material.
Thanks for the clarification. I was aware of the expansion caused shrinkage, but the real killer here is that with some plastics like PLA, the distortion is semi-permanent.
Isn't the process for cyanoacrylates a hardening process started at a nucleation site rather than a drying process? Once it gets started, it just continues, albeit a bit slow in the absence of more nuceation sites. Hmm, feels like I'll be going down a rabbit hole on wikipedia one of these days...
Robert nice work with the tooling for Max he lives on the after side of the country to me . West Australia is famous for its wild flowers people from all around the world to view them in the spring , am sure there will be a lot of documentary on the net . ( I don't think Max is into Floral arrangements) Kit from down under
