Comments on: Fun commercial for Sugru repair putty

By: foobar

foobar — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:07:00 +0000

That looks really useful. I wish they’d bring it out of Australia.

By: foobar

foobar — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:04:00 +0000

So hack it until it does.

By: jennybean42

jennybean42 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:39:00 +0000

I really like sugru, I wish it didn’t have such a short shelf life, though.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:02:00 +0000

I agree. Cute commercial, but doesn’t really highlight the product well. Which is a shame, because it’s a great product.

Maybe a frenetic 200-stills-in-60-seconds of (a subset of) the different fixes one can achieve with Sugru, instead?

By: Alan Steel

Alan Steel — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:42:00 +0000

Luxo Jr for the 21st century … love it.

By: Linda Muck

Linda Muck — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:38:00 +0000

That doesn’t sound right! Please send me an email to linda@sugru.com and I’ll sort this out for you!

By: CH

CH — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:09:00 +0000

Yeah, I was wondering about that. A big blob of putty on what I assume is a crack on hard plastic. Um… perhaps it will hold, but it sure looked ugly. Or a huge blob in the wrong color to put the bumper back on the toy car… or perhaps I would have used glue instead?

Cute video, but it really didn’t tickle my “must buy!” (well… other than for the robot).

By: ώΘΘDόόFЁЯяΣŦ .

ώΘΘDόόFЁЯяΣŦ . — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:31:00 +0000

I used Sugru to fix the toaster oven at work last year when the handle broke off the glass door. We use it frequently, and unlike Polymorph plastic, it’s good for temperatures up to 350°F.

By: taghag

taghag — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:19:00 +0000

as the old saying goes:
build your wife a robot, and she’ll only have one robot.teach your wife to build robots and she’ll achieve world robot domination!!! :)

By: Hegelian

Hegelian — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:49:00 +0000

That is an awesome commercial, and yet it doesn’t actually show any applications for which Sugru is actually very well suited for.

I like Sugru. The air curing material is is rubbery, so it is great for repairing stuff like cable strain relief and other things that really need a moldable rubbery substance. The stuff the video is generally hard plastic which would be suitable for repair with epoxy or epoxy putty–which costs less and doesn’t have the short expiration date that Sugru does.

By: Steve Wells

Steve Wells — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:46:00 +0000

I use Knead-It which has been around for a great many years. Not the same, but similar.

By: robcat2075

robcat2075 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:33:00 +0000

It seems more like a commercial for the robot arm which apparently doesn’t really do what it appears to do in the commercial.

By: Susan Carley Oliver

Susan Carley Oliver — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:30:00 +0000

I think Sugru is lovely for those who want something premixed, and jars of polymorph plastic are lovely for those with a bit more DIY thing going on. There’s plenty of room in the maker community for both products, imo.

Just like in my kitchen there’s room for both my CO2 carbonator as well as plenty of yeast to make CO2 the other way.

By: bshock

bshock — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:16:00 +0000

I’m sure Sugru is great stuff when you get it fresh, but I had an unopened package (with all of the little internal packages unopened as well) for only four months, and by the time I got around to trying it, the putty was too thick and dry to use.

By: millie fink

millie fink — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:05:00 +0000

I see, thanks!

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:47:00 +0000

These kind of doohickeys: https://www.google.com/search?q=strain+relief&num=100&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=7oRGUMnzMajgyQH904CgCA&ved=0CGQQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=1275

By: pizzicato

pizzicato — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:44:00 +0000

Polymorph plastic is much better, I don’t think it has an expiry date… All you need is a kettle of hot water to reform it, plus it is endlessly reusable, durable, can also be colored using food colorings if you fancy it, I think it is also biodegradable.

Mind I add, mixing silicone with acrylic paint kind of works the same way as Sugru, it shortens cure time and the end result is also flexible.

By: Bucket

Bucket — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:31:00 +0000

The Fixbot is available on Thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:29745

Which is good, because as soon as my wife sees this video she’s going to want me to make one.

By: millie fink

millie fink — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:26:00 +0000

What are headphone strain reliefs?