"New bonding Product - "5 Second Fix"" Topic
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| Legends In Time Skip | 03 Feb 2016 6:48 a.m. PST |
Has any one tried this New product that has been advertised on various TV channels. It's name is "5 Second Fix". It comes in a liquid form and is dispensed from a tube. After the bonding agent is applied to the two broken pieces you want to mend, you place a Ultra Violet pen light over the object and flash it on for 5 seconds. Then the object is mended. They show leather, plastic & metal objects of various kinds being bonded as if they were never broken. And of course in 5 seconds. OK, any Mad Scientists out there that have experimented with this on models or figures? |
| RKE Steve | 03 Feb 2016 7:05 a.m. PST |
I have heard it does not work very well. |
| vagamer63 | 03 Feb 2016 7:20 a.m. PST |
Supposedly, (key word, I guess), this is very similar to the adhesive used by dentist in fillings to help cure them so that the filling material adheres to the tooth surface better then in the old days! Of course the stuff your dentist uses is pretty expensive! I guess experience of those who try it will be the best way to find out if it works or not! |
| bsrlee | 03 Feb 2016 7:20 a.m. PST |
Sounds like one of the fixatives used in dentistry since it uses UV light to set. I can see there would be problems with intensity and timing as you have to guess intensity and would need to set some sort of timer (which dentists do) and the time is a lot longer than 5 seconds. |
| JimDuncanUK | 03 Feb 2016 7:45 a.m. PST |
I heard that the UV light may have some detrimental effects on some plastics. |
| John Treadaway | 03 Feb 2016 10:48 a.m. PST |
I heard that the UV light may have some detrimental effects on some plastics. It certainly does over time, Jim. Some plastics crumble after prolonged exposure* but not all plastics and it takes a long time (gutters and drain pipes survive for decades with 24/7 exposure). It also depends on the colour as pigment affects how much UV gets through, as I recall. John T I think ABS survives well. Styrene, not so much. |
| Zeelow | 03 Feb 2016 11:07 a.m. PST |
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| wolfie907 | 03 Feb 2016 6:42 p.m. PST |
I got bondic off amazon which is the same thing it works ok my main gripe is the price it is way more expensive than superglue and is not the easiest to use i often wish for a third hand as you gotta hold the parts together plus move the light around. I do like it for metal the most for plastics ill just stick to superglue |
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