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Bondic: Handheld Plastic Welder for Micro-Repairs

By Rain Noe - February 19, 2015

in Hand Tools

One possession I use the crap out of are these Bose noise-canceling headphones. Over a year ago the cable began to fray near the minijack prong, and here you see my inelegant solution:

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That's your standard plumber's PTFE tape, the stuff you wrap over the threads of a pipe before you fit the connection. That tape too is starting to fray, so I've been poking around for something else to use and came across this: Bondic Liquid Plastic Welder.

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This stuff sounds nuts. It's something like two-part epoxy, except Part 2 is the LED light on the back of it. You basically squirt liquid plastic out of the nozzle, then hit it with the UV light to cure it. Even more impressively, the resultant weld can be shaped after curing. Check this out:

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I like the way the tool is designed; it looks like you'd be able to apply the stuff with precision. At $25 a pop it's quite a bit more expensive than a tube of glue, but it seems a helluva lot more versatile. Any of you have experience using this?

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R Bhatt

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Just purchased...review coming soon...using it to repair cords, spectacles, etc. as well as hermetically seal cassette tapes.

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Supa Fluous

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This just watched this featured on All American Makers. It's like getting a cavity filled by my dentist.

http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/all-american-makers-2/videos/bondic-faces-the-consumer-test/

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Kostas Syrtariotis

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This is every DIY'ers paradise!
Hope that stiches on every plastic surface, usally PVC or PP are difficult to glue.

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Marcio Jacinto

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Lovit, do you have epoxy black, this woub be very good to repair laptops, what is the resistence ot this epoxy

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Scott Brown

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Sugru for cable repair.

Bondic is interesting - similar to UV curing systems I've used for stone & solid surface repair, or to those for adhering things to glass. I'm curious about how flexible the cured compound is - those I mentioned are hard & rather brittle, but something with just the right balance between adhesion, gap filling, and flexing ability would be well worth the price.

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