The super glue idea that not many people know about 

For those that don't smoke, you can also use the ashes of your enemies.

Even in death, Grandma still keeping the household together ❤️

Cheers to this guy for actually using the super glue bottle repeatedly enough to where it doesn't glue itself shut forever.

Wow, 70yo lady here, this is absolutely brilliant!! Wish I'd known about these hacks decades ago....I've always been a DIY, mechanical, and fix it myself from a little girl..my mom used to give me broken toasters and radios to dismantle and see how they tic....I can think of thousands of projects I melted my brain trying to come up with solutions for just creative repairs etc. I have worked on ...these hacks are so great .... I know I'll be using them in any future tricky projects that come..

For those who don't know. You can get the same exact effect with baking soda instead of ashes.

Doctor: "You should see your lungs" Me: "You should see my repairs"

i started fixing stuff, now i get the urge to fix at least 20 things daily. can't deny this video is life changing !

This is actually really cool man. I could honestly see this coming in handy one day. Thank you

Thanks to this video I now have a 5 pack a day habit, but my broken paint trays are as good as new.

I was just about to quit smoking, until I saw this video. Thank you for preventing me from making a big mistake! You’re a lifesaver!!!

My grandpa used to do this until he got pulmonar hypertension for years of smoking. Now he uses sodium bicarbonate instead. This video gave me great memories. I miss him everyday

You could also use hair clippings for a fiberglass effect

For those without this nasty habit, baking soda works just as good. LOL

Baking soda works just as well without having to light or buy a cigarette. This has been used for years in guitar repairs. Fixes a chipped nut and also fills in deep paint chips and the super glue can be colored to match paint!

This hack saved me a lot of time and troubles. I didn't expected such result. Thank you, Inventor 101 for sharing this. Special thanks to all commenting below the video for sharing also good enhancements on it.

I was told about this little trick about 30 years ago by a guy who fixed copy machines, I just never tried it, awesome little trick, can be used to fix many many things.

Where someone sees a full ash tray, this guy sees a sea of possibilities.

Instead of ashes, you can simply use baking soda. Also, it’s better to jam a toothpick into a lose screw hole rather than intentionally make it bigger and fill it with a foreign object. The toothpick with splinter and lock into the screw in place without sacrificing the integrity of the original wood piece.

Used the ash trick to glue 2 parts of steel piercings together, worked like a charm! Thx!

Cool video but I would definitely like some explanation during the tutorial. You used the filter as well as the ash, so my takeaway is that adding superglue to anything lightweight that will soak up the superglue will give a rock hard effect. I definitely don’t know the first thing about chemical reactions

I learned this trick a couple of years ago but instead of ashes I was told to use backing soda. It instantly dries as hard as rock.

I learned of this back in the early 2000s. My car's radiator cracked open in the middle of my journey to another district. I had already covered 150km with 100km to reach my destination (no garage nearby). A mere local man who happening to be passing by asking what the problem was and I explaining, he simply asked me to get him super glue from a nearby shop that was just a few meters away plus some flour. I hesitated thinking he crazy (NOTE: he was also in a drunken state)... I mean, how could I trust or take him seriously. With zero ideas and no sensible/viable solutions, I reluctantly entertained his proposed idea buying a few tubes of super glue and asked one of the locals for a handful of flour. After about 50 minutes of repair and drying up, I was on my way. The fix was solid, and it held up for 4 months... and this is a car doing daily 100km plus distance.

Nice idea will try that out one day. But please use PZ drivers for PZ screws and PH drivers for PH screws. It will make your life a whole lot easier :)

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for sharing 🙏

Now if you just come up with a way to use empty whiskey bottles and beer cans to make household repairs I'll be all set.

I have been using baking soda and crazy glue for repairs but I like your idea. It seems that ashes from a wood stove would be a finer powder than the baking soda. Thanks!

Wow…best hack I’ve EVER seen….and I love these kind of videos….I’m floored-wow THANK YOU!!!

I always figured that the powder Q-Bond come with is to big the granules, so this means I can burn paper as well then. Q-Bond really helped me through College in Design class working with plexiglass, but your edges can't be smoothened

49 years old, I've worked multiple trades from HVAC, auto repair, construction, maintenance, and now prototyping and I have never heard of this trick before. Absolutely brilliant.

I was trained to use crazy glue with saw dust to accomplish the same thing! I learned it in Luthier school. Ebony dust was the strongest. Never thought to use ashes. Brilliant!

This is just what i needed! Thanks!

Dude, usually with these types of videos, there's nothing new under the sun. However, as you've already stated, most people use baking soda. I've gotta say, I never considered using ash. Interestingly, the crazy glue reacted with the ash, causing an exothermic reaction. I never would've guessed that outcome with ash. Thanks for opening my mind & assisting my future fixes!

It makes sense now why my mom keeps that pot of ashes on the mantle. I’m gonna fix everything today and she will be so proud of me!

Finally, I can use my grandma

Some of method I tried before. Really great sharing ❤

Funny. I guess I was ahead of my time in the mid 70s when I'd use Quick Set 404 and charcoal briquette filings to fix broken torn or plastic on the banana seat of my Schwinn chopper, and my neighbors' too.

This is life changing. Now I can ash my joints with purpose.

Wow! Why did I never think of that. I have struggled for decades with split or broken plastics and to think the solution was dangling out the corner of my mouth all the time whilst struggling to fix such things. Thank you. You clever people - who ever you are!

Making plastic from ashes and superglue, nicely done.

Thank you! I have a project to begin!!

I’ve never felt more emotionally inspired about home projects. What a soundtrack.

I got to say I’ve been a handyman for 15+ years and I’ve never once thought of using contact cement and I ashes to fix plastic parts it’s pretty genius

These are AMAZING IDEAS!

To repair a fingernail, put a bit of split sheet toilet paper over the break, and soak it in super glue. Works a treat, just file it into shape after it's set. Works with any kind of extremely thin paper, or even the proper fibreglass sheet that's used for false nails. That method has worked on lots of things over the years for me

Interesting. For a darker color 'baking soda + super glue' effect... You can use GRAPHITE powder (the stuff you use for making lock cilinders move smoothly). Becomes quite black. Equally hard. Takes about 10-30 seconds for the reaction to kick in, so you have some time to adjust still.

Giving new meaning to the phrase: "Nicotine Patch"

Great HACK one of thee best, the world needs to know of it...

Genius! Great hacks!! Thanks

Scientist are gonna find this guy in a million years perfectly preserved with super glue in his lungs.

Very cool. Baking soda can be used instead of ashes. Baking soda and super glue are used to fix chips on the carbon fiber blades of a helicopter. Also, the cigarette filter and super glue is a cool idea.

I believe you can use any ash including some from your charcoal grill, you can scoop some in a jar for future use it should be the same effect.

This is really cool! I am definìtely going to try these out on a couple of my broken plastic enclosure lids!

superglue + cotton wool = my new favorite fixing method of broken parts. Tryed it on a laptop, tiny screw holster was broken out. It holds now better like new.

The final piece of knowledge i needed to build my cigar house. Thank you!

Great video! I will definitely try this in the future!

VERY practical for me personally, with the 2 packs of Marlboro Reds I smoke a day! 😉👍🏻👍🏻

Fine powder/fibrous material + super glue = quick/easy home repair!

That's pretty cool, baking soda works also for non smokers.

I’m done now this is one of the best video’s I’ve ever watched in my lifetime.

Thank you from Mexico, never knew about this triks, someday I will use them!..

You can also use many filters once melted and molded together to make a shank for anything you need a shank for.

Depends where you live. For me, the bin lid would be cheaper to replace than a packet of smokes

Nice idea, brilliant mind.

yeah i was told about this years ago and thought mmm possible, then when i came to do it realising how simple & how damn fantastic & durable it is, I recommend this plastic fix to anybody, as shown here it's amazingly durable to.

I had no idea! This has give me the motivation I needed to start smoking again.

Thanks for showing really usable examples! Great ideas.

I have repaired a broken nut on a guitar using bakeing soda and super glue that was about 10 years ago and it still works

That is a genius ideal thanks for the info great video

I don't care what anyone else says, that is bloody brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

This is a great idea. I have a 1960's Classic car with a thin plastic centre console which has some small splits. These can be easily repaired by supporting the front with tape and then, making this support from the back with this method. I have been looking for a solution for many years.

I can smell this video! Genius idea!

I will never use this technique but the video was so relaxing to watch

These ideas are great. Finally a way to repair those difficult items.

Thanks, i fixed what I needed and picked up a new habit

This is awesome and so useful!

I quit smoking a long time ago, so I can say that the fine ash from the fireplace worked just as well 👍👍 great tip.

I use some of these methods everyday. Except I work with stone. I don't smoke but most of my coworkers do. Cigarette ash added to translucent 2 part epoxy helps give a natural look when you can't add pigments. I use it in my seam colors also. Baking soda works as an activator as well but when it goes off it turns really white so I mix the ash with it. If I'm working by myself and nobody has a cigarette smoking, I will use pepper to tint my two part epoxy. This is in applications usually having to do with Dallas White granite. I have used Red and black pigment and added that to Baking soda and use that as a filler then put a coat of super glue on top to mimic the color of Garnet. I've been doing granite for 8 years now and you would be amazed of some of the fixes and things you come up with when you are in a bind, don't have the correct products, and out on a job 100 plus miles away from the shop. I've also used red clay and torched it to make powder to add to my epoxy. Also we have a spray activator for super glue. You have to be careful what spray activator you use because some of them will turn light granite green. The stone will continue to get more green until it looks like you're throwing a St. Patrick's Day parade. lol . I did test samples and set them to the side and forgot about them..... 3 months later that stone was so green....we were all amazed. That was years ago now they have an activator with different agents in their formula.. No more green stone. Lol Satellite city brand glue has an amazing product line, Including different glues with different viscosities along with NFC black label aresol activator.

THANK YOU!!! I sure hope Shiva will let me repair my Oakley’s using this trick. Every plastic shop says the plastic they use can’t be fixed an I have a broken pair no longer available I’ve been holding onto. 🙏🏽🤞🏽😎

so pleasing, almost addictive 😊

"Think you're wasting your life by smoking a pack a day? Well think no more! Get superglue!"

I usually know most of these Lil tricks but this is different. Never even heard of it. Great idea to have in the arsenal. Thanks 👍✌

Your ideas are very useful, friend. Good luck for the future.

FYI, it doesn’t have to be expensive cigarette ash, you can use any common wood ash also.

As a life long chain smoker you’ve inspired me to never give up and never to quit

I also use braided fishing line in little strip it is like a Kevlar when finished if done correctly

Being an older, single woman who is independent... this is an amazing DIY fix! Thank you for sharing!!

FINALY. Some DIY to repair my car on a budget 🙏

For those of you complaining, there are multiple ways to get the raw materials for these things. All you have to do is look for them. Still, here's a few tips: 1) Any ash (wood ash, for example) will do for the ash part, as it's the ash's job to be carbon to chemically react and straight the cyanoacrylate, and a bit of a filler, color, and shaper. 2) I can guarantee that if you walk around with a baggie and a pair of tweezers along any sidewalk in front of, for example, a busy store, you can find many (potentially many, MANY) discarded cigarette butts to recover for the filter parts of this for free. Just... make sure to wear gloves and use the tweezers. Better safe than sorry. 3) The filter is a filler and "exoskeleton" for the glue to grab hold of and dry within, to give it a shape, rather than being a puddle. It also reacts chemically, too, like the carbon (ash), for a stronger bond. Now, as for other ways to get the ash, you could just light and burn the cigarette (outside, away from people, of course). As for the filters, you can snip those off beforehand, so they are clean (or just snip the ends off and use the tobacco for a pesticide concoction, so you'll have just the filter), or go to a smoke shop & buy the filters, themselves, which exist because some people still like to roll their own cigarettes. They're an endangered species (in more ways than one), but they do exist, and the butts can be purchased. Don't want to do that? Go buy them from eBay, or the even bigger corporafascist Amazon, or just locate the manufacturers, themselves, and order them there. No, baking soda doesn't work the same way. It speeds up the hardening of the cyanoacrylate, but doesn't form the same type of chemical bonds as the carbon does. You could, if memory serves, use a sprinkle of baking soda in with the ash to speed it up, as well as create the carbon-carbon bonds.

awesome awesome video! Thank you for this.

New discovery, thank you for that❤

Funny how you posted this- I was just telling my grandson from my hospital bed the other day how this lung cancer and 2-pack-a-day habit started with a simple glove box repair...

This is a game changer. Thanks for advice💜

Which super glue would you recommend, is there particular brand like Monster?

I used to use construction filler glue (or whatever u call it, yellowish color) for these purposes the problem is that it came in a tube that i had to insert in a metal thing to apply pressure.. there is another thing for car dents, its two pastes that u combine..

What a great way to repair all the cheap junk they make now a days! This could be a life saver if times get really tough. Thank you for sharing!

Ótimo trabalho 👏 sucesso aí família 🤜🤛

This may be fascinating, but can we take a moment to appreciate this awesome music?

Finally something good came out of tobacco. After watching this masterpiece from a viewer I ve become a subscriber now.

Man I have been looking for a way to 'add to' a broken plastic piece, as nothing I've tried actually bonds together with it. I'm so looking forward to trying this and hoping it works! Thanks for the video! Crazy to think ash & instant glue can do that....

Awesome. I'm going for it🏃‍♂️