That Old Super Glue And Baking Soda Trick 

This guy is what we all need on youtube. NO BULLSHIT and also his glasses break like the rest of us

The interesting thing about this is the chemistry behind it. Super Glue contains an acidic inhibitor. When it is exposed to the humidity in the air, the acid gets diluted and the glue cures. The alkaline Baking Soda both accelerates the curing (neutralizing the acidic inhibitor) and performs the same role as gravel does in concrete.

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Fantastic trick! Although I am now walking around with 3 paper clips and a pair of Oakleys superglued to my head! Note: allow to dry first!

I used to work in a high-end violin repair shop, we're talking Stradivarius here. We used Hot Stuff (like crazy glue) to make hairline fractures disappear. Exact same process as this video but we used wood dust instead of baking soda. If the clients and buyers knew this they probably wouldn't be too pleased.

This is an awesome way to be able to keep using stuff that’s “broken” and preventing unnecessary garbage! Bravo!

For those of us who weren't aware of this, I thank you very much. Such a cool idea.

Holy Hell that is awesome! I’m 43 and feel lucky to have not waited another decade before seeing this little gem of a quick fix. Bravo

Well done on not feeling the irritating need to pad this video with shite, making it twenty minutes long. It's the perfect length for a curious passer-by.

I have used this method to repair the inside door pulls on my 2007 GMC van. These internal parts are large plastic pieces, maybe 14, long that had broken into 5 pieces. First I glued them as usual with super glue, then I built up layers of superglue and baking soda. I think there was 11 to 13 inches of crack line that needed repair. Also a couple of cracked out holes that I rebuilt and reshaped. It has been well over a year and both doors are still holding up.

I learned about this working in R&D at Hasbro around '89. Later, a friend and collegue improved on it by putting the baking soda in a squeeze bottle with a tapered nozzle. You can kind of squirt a powder/air mixture out almost like liquid. Makes it easy to apply the powder where you want it to go, which is the part I always found difficult.

I’m an engineer, born an engineer, became Gov acknowledge engineer by the age of 30 there wasn’t much new under the sun, either I created it myself or researched it, but am finding all kinds of new stuff on your channel that are new to me. Awesome

I used this to patch a huge crack in the plastic radiator on a freightliner semi truck several years ago. I used about 10 layers, but it held. I drove the truck from Phoenix to LA and back several times a week for a month and it never let loose. Can't say what happened to it when I returned the truck but I was quite impressed.

You just taught an old dog a new trick. Thank you, Bob!

Love that.... "good as new" especially since "new" wasn't good to begin with. Hey, it might even be better.

I'm 41 and never heard of this but now, thanks to you I've not only heard it but saw it, thank you kind Sir.

Great detail. You might want to mention that it's not advisable to use it on the body. I split a nail a while ago and tried to glue the split together with a few applications of the glue only, but it wouldn't last longer than a few minutes. So without thinking I covered the whole nail with the super glue and then applied a thick covering of baking soda. Bad idea.😱 The chemical reaction of course gives off a ton of heat. I think the neighbors heard me screaming. The heat only lasted a few minutes and I was able to file the baking soda down nice and smooth. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

I bought some type of glue similar to superglue at the state fair. It came with a little bottle of white powder to use in this way! It cost a lot more than baking soda. I’m betting it was pretty much the same thing. Thanks for the tip!

Old School. Simple things not taught anymore that can save you $. What could be "Greener" than that? Good job Bro.

Amazing trick. I also appreciate you blowing the baking soda off using a 'P'-sound mouth shape instead of a 'W' shape - another quick trick!

When I worked in the ITS dept. at a local hospital we ordered a squeeze bottle with a tapered nozzle full of a product similar to this. It worked great for repair on all kinds of computer related items. Great stuff, the baking soda will be much cheaper. Thank you!

I love this trick. Since I learned it I use it every time I have to be super glue because it makes the repair much stronger. I even used it to repair things on my car like a radiator hose, of course I put another piece of Hose & gasket sealer on that hose over top of this repair but it's held for years now. I've used it to repair drone bodies and it holds up to high stresses in flight

Impressive to see someone pull this off without welding their thumb to their index finger

Love the tweezer clamp, which I hadn't seen before👍

This is a classic that personally I have used for years and there is something I would like to warn you about. If you use steel/iron pins in your model an this mixture contacts the metal it will cause it to rust and swell a tiny bit. The color is an obvious stain on the model and there are sometimes stress cracks at the joint from the expansion. Usually both can be covered up by a dot of pain, but on something larger that may not be an easy fix. The soda adsorbs any moisture it encounters that's why we use the Sniff 'n Hammer in the refrigerator. If you live in a place with low humidity this may not even be an issue, but I live in a cave at the bottom of Titicaca. I love that name.

I'm old and I've never heard of the old super glue and baking soda trick! Cheers for the new trick! Have a blessed day.

Yes, we used to reinforce R/C Balsa Wood model planes firewalls and engine bays or any joint we wanted to be stronger. We used to fill the area with baking soda like a fillet and then add the CA and when using larger amounts it would smoke. Nice Job.

Very useful scale model builders , we use it to strengthen weak joins .

I first used this idea in model hobbying since 1989. Used it on all woods, plastic etc. Can also use fillers they use is resins.

thank you for being straight forward and just showing what you offered. all other videos force you to watch a bunch of other stuff too before showing this. which wastes time and pisses me off. so, thank you. very much.

AWESOME i knew the baking soda trick, but had never thought of this type of application. You know how many broken tiny plastic pieces I have around? You've just saved many products.

Lol I use the same Reverse Tweezers to hold my blunt instead of alligator clips because it doesn't have teeth to put holes in my blunt.

I’m a builder, never knew about that, it’s one of them tips I’m sure will come in handy 👍

A flute maker friend of mine turned me on to this in the '80's (he used it to add faux mother of pearl banding on his flutes) and I've been doing it ever since for fret marker dots on my cigar box guitars and dulcimers...

As a furniture restorer, the quick glue also have accelerants. NFC accelerator is my go to choice.

Nice! I've built-up repairs like this with epoxy before... but superglue and baking soda is faster and easier.

1 in 1000 YT videos are actually useful, practical and well thought out. Great video, that may actually save a few lbs of trash from the ending up in the landfill. Liking, sharing and subbed.

And another fantastic use for the humble paper clip 😁

Superglue is amazing! My headphones I bought for $200, plastic keeps breaking here and there. I kept supergluing, they are now 50% superglue. Nothing has broken in a while. Nothing that was superglued ever broke. If it's not superglued, it's not gonna last until it is.

I love human ingenuity! Where was this video 5 pair of sunglasses ago? lol

I learned this and been a god send ...does eveything...

what's old for some is new for other's. nice repair, i have taken note 🤝

Fun fact about super glue, I was one of the first people in the US back in 1998 they tested super glue as a replacement for stitches. I was 10 years old. Super glue doesn’t work to replace stitches and I’m one of the reasons they dont use it.

Never heard of this trick. Filing this one in long term storage.

Ground cinnamon works great as well.

Thank you So much, ive realized i can fix lots of stuff like that Keep Teaching Us Old Tricks

Note to self, good job over the years not buying into the Oakley craze if they can malfunction that easy at their price. BUT when a friend DOES break his, I'll remember FAC has the solution!!! Excellent tip that could easily be applied to other similar issues! I'll give ya a Thumbs on this one!

It does work. I repaired an oven door handle on Thanksgiving probably 5 years ago using a batch that I mixed on some scrap material. It basically turns quickly into an epoxy-type substance that is machinable.

A many of guitar nut and bridge (acoustic) has been repaired this way.

I did not know about this... But as many things that break around me... I can see this coming in handy... Thanks for sharing...

you can do this with most powders, works well with wood and metal shavings

Repaired both thumbs with this method. Stops the bleeding real quick

At first I was thinking "another video to waste my time"... after, "I'm sharing this with EVERYONE"

It works with the acetate Super Glue. Some people had said if you do it exactly right it can be stronger than steel. I believe they said about 20 times stronger than Bondo as well. It is definitely a must-have in your bug-out bag and a small box of baking soda.

CA glue works the best and is even stronger with CA Kicker applied with the glue / baking soda mixture.

The first time you been that right support the wrong way it will give. We all do it and it's inevitable so prepare yourself for grief.

I use tape or one sided sticky guaze over holes or missing pieces of a broken article. This acts as a mould that I apply layers of the superglue and baking soda over. After sandpapering and a koki pen paint job it's quite amazing at the good finish one can end up with.

Thanks for reminding all of us who do and those who didn’t know about the baking soda and Cyano Acetate trick; Now that I have been reminded I hopefully will never forget; saving rather than throwing away something that can be fixed is a good thing.

Yep. You are so busted. I don’t know how many times I work on something and don’t put a towel under it protecting my wife’s nice table. You are a true rebel. “Why don’t you do it in the garage!” She says. Because the lighting at the dinner table is so much better !😂

Similar concept to what we use in boat building when we mix fumed silica with fiberglass resin to make thickened epoxy.

Going to be fixing that annoying cracked freezer handle this weekend! Thank you. You've saved me a lot of money with this trick!

This always worked great for filling in nicks in the prop on my aircraft. Then after dry, I’d sand it smooth.

Interesting, I never heard of this hack till now. 👍

Composite Manufacturing. I do like it very very much

You can mend plastics and rubber this way as well by using shavings or powdered plastic or rubber

One time I got drunk and tried this but used corn starch on accident but I'm still wearing the glasses I fixed trying it. I think corn starch works good too!

Wow dude, thank-you so much for sharing this. I can honestly say I'll never forget that.

the fine sawdust from mdf and superglue works very well. i'd put that up against baking soda any day!

A classic Luthier's trick.

CA glue needs what is referred to as a "kicker" to bond Some thing like wood have a built in "kicker." With some other things you need to add one. Baking soda is one of the best "kickers" and it also can fill gaps With baking soda you can even make a spray kicker by mixing it with some water.

The absolute best way to repair an "Over filed" guitar not or bridge.

The next thing you know, you will be inventing the light bulb, or maybe the phonograph. This would also work great for gluing somebodys mouth shut, like mine.

Awesome tip, presentation, and content. Thanks

I learned two things, how to avoid this problem and how to fix it after I forget the first thing

Looks like the same reaction as CA glue with aerosol activator. Thx for sharing !

Good job. I have done this myself. Does work. The piece of wire is a good idea.

Love this genius trick so many times i have wanted to sort shit like this out and given up

I was today old when I learned this, Thanks!

The indicator cancelling lug on my car wore out and used that method. Brilliant fix. Saved $350!

Wow, I never heard of this before. I can think of several occasions when it would have been helpful. Thanks!

I used that trick at 2009. soda make dry quickly but make rough surface.

I've used baking soda and cyanoacrylate for a few things and I like it. It instantly turns into something like tooth enamel. But now I have another favorite that I used on my glasses when the plastic frame broke. The lens has the frame stretched a bit and its too hard to use cyanoacrylate there. I got some UV cure adhesive that comes with a tiny UV light that cures it in 5 seconds. It works great. I pinched the broken ends together as tight as I could and pressed the light button. Good as new!

Also works great on plastic bumper repair small cracks

You left out the part where you carefully file off excess and final shaping. ☺️ Haha.

Man I wish I saw this earlier. Could have used it to fix the freezer door handle. I had no clue it was possible to DIY fix plastic broken parts.

Not gonna lie, the first time he blew the baking soda off I just about jumped out of my chair lol

This would have more likes my friend if the viewers could see what your doing is essentially, making a rivet. Bravo my friend. Thank you for this.

Great tip.. I think the greatest lesson here is not to purchase Oakleys

A useful little hack.

Man, Can't believe I didn't know about adding baking soda 😂

the reason that worked is because your technique was excellent

CA glue used by my son for gluing his tires on his Radio controlled cars which he has been doing for over 15 years, is the best superglue I have ever tried. It works like you think superglue should work. The name of it is CA glue.. I had a collision with a deer on my motorcycle that has a full plastic faring. I had to buy a used large side panel/fairing because they were not available new.. The one I bought from a salvage yard, the idiot that removed it from a motorcycle in the salvage yard didn’t unscrew all the tab screws, they cut them off with a saw. I did not see this when I had the panel repainted the stock color which cost me $400 for the part and for the paint job. When I went to install it, there were no tabs… so I removed the tabs from the broken faring by cutting them off the old faring ..I was trying superglue, and it just did not hold. Not even close. My son stopped over and suggested CA glue which I never heard of..He gave me his tube that he’s been using to glue his tires to the wheels to keep them from spinning on the rims. My son is/was ranked as one of the top 100 RC car racers in the country.. he told me to be sure of my exact position for each tab because I’ll have to cut it back off to reposition it. He was right. That motorcycle, a Honda Pacific coast, 1994, that I had for 26 years mostly as a commuter, had that panel with the reglued tabs on for an additional eight years without a single glued tab failing, in spite of the fact that they were not cut with a precision laser when the salvage yard cut them off, and when I cut them off the old faring to install them on the replacement faring. You put it on, and within 10 seconds it is done. I don’t know how it would work with baking soda, I have used the old baking soda and watery superglue a couple times for making repairs on plastic items that needed to be reshaped afterwards which was fine. But super glue is not even in the same category as CA glue For a regular repairs of plastics

Short and very clear. GREAT!

Talcum powder works well. I used fibreglass resin, hardener mixed with talcum powder. Used by panel beaters on rusted out panels. You have to get it perfect! As it's impossible to sand once it goes off. I did this on a 76 Honda civic and lasted for years. Smells nice when you sand too. Lol

Well, what do you know? Everyday is a learning day, thank you.

Most people just buy new glasses. The rest of us watch this.

Baking soda is amazing stuff and has many uses!

It fixes Blackhawk rotor blades in the field, Why not Cheap Oakley's?

Brilliant! The number of times I've had this problem... Thanks!

I always thought it was baking soda first and then wick in the superglue. Use it as a filler more than an activator.