When was sticky tack invented

If the paint on your walls is too thin, it may peel off with the Blu Tack, and if the wall surface is at all porous, oils from the adhesive can seep into it. Careful cleaning can generally take care of these stains and leave the walls unblemished.

Have you gotten Blu Tack stuck in your hair? Pour a decent amount of baby oil onto the area where the Blu Tack is stuck. Work the baby oil into the Blu Tack, but don't try and pull it the Blu Tack out yet! Leave the baby oil to soak in for about 5 minutes, then you should be able to pull the Blu Tack out. It's good for fixing cracks or breaks in rigid objects. You want to avoid getting it on your skin. Sugru is a putty. It's squishy, kind of like clay, and air-cures to a sort of rubbery flexible solid.

It's good for repairs to things that are flexible It's great for repairing and ending stain relief to cables and also for adding "bumpers" to things or even molding small objects like hooks. It's also safe to touch uncured Sugru with your bare hands. This makes it a lot easier to work with, in general. The big downside to Sugru is that it's expensive, it goes bad after a few months but storing it in the fridge extends the lifetime to a couple of years , and once you open a packet, the whole packet will cure within 24 hours.

You pretty much always end up with some waste. If they could somehow make it 2-part so you could make the exact amount you need, or store it in a tube or something so it wouldn't go bad so easily, it would be great. There are a bunch of different products under the JB Weld brand that are two part clay like material.

They are designed for things like patching wood, patching metal, etc. The two parts are different colors, so you take the two parts, squish them together, and knead them a bit until they have a uniform color and then you can mold them into whatever shape you need.

I've used the wood one quite a bit for repairing small rotted sections of wood and it works well. Not sure what the shelf life is, but in it's two part state I've had containers around for over a year and they seem like new. I've used two part putties that should like what you're describing, though I think the ones I'd used weren't JB Weld brand.

I'm pretty sure they were all epoxies as well. When the JB Weld putties you're talking about cure are they hard and brittle, or flexible and squishy? The ones I'd used all cured to a hard plastic. Yes, I fell into the trap of assuming a brand name actually has a fixed meaning. Still, that's an epoxy, and if it's like the epoxy putties I've used, I bet it cures to a hard and rigid plastic, rather than the soft and flexible rubber that "Sugru brand mouldable glue" cures into.

I doubt the underlying chemistry is unable to produce elastomeric products. Especially if you look at e. Super stuff and very useful. JB Weld only joins flat surfaces, right? My understanding is that the product OP is referring to is a putty that you can form into arbitrary shapes.

I'd be very interested to find the equivalent of two part epoxy Sugru, or in other words a rubbery Milliput. Any suggestions?

Coincidentally, such was my need only yesterday. I thought first of Sugru, balked at the price and delivery time as usual, looked into making some 'Oogoo' silicon sealant mixed with corn flour and funnily enough I ended up using some Sugru that's been in my fridge for 5 years, which although slightly crumblier than I remember on first handling, did the job fine in the end. I purchased Sugru years ago to form a small cover on the edge of my MacBook Pro's palm rest because it was uncomfortably sharp.

Basically a thin line of Sugru from edge to edge. It worked well, and it's still there and functioning 5 years later. When the two tiny packets arrived I thought it was quite expensive for what it was! I only ever used one packet, the other stayed in the fridge door where I just found it and it is rock hard.

So I guess my next purchase would be for this Blu Tack. Balero on June 12, parent next [—]. Blutak would not work for this. If you have it in contact with body heat too long it gets ropey. It would constantly stick to your hands on contact. I think OP was commenting that they're completely different things, with different purposes and uses.

Blutack is great for sticking a poster to a wall, because its easy to put up and take off, and can be useable again. It is not for something to be permanent and used. They're solving entirely different problems. Sugru would be great but for the really short expiry as it's just the sort of thing I'd keep by indefinitely for an unplanned repair along with glue, tape and epoxy putty. Blu-Tack doesn't harden, it stays sticky. It's used to attach posters to the wall and stuff like that. I wouldn't want to use it on the edge of a MacBook, it would just gather dust and grime, and would easily fall off.

Solution is to apply some Sellotape Scotch tape to the back of the poster first, then put the Blu-Tack on the plastic tape, which blocks the solvent.

And avoid using it on wallpaper emulsion or gloss paint is fine. Better still, use poster holders and a picture hook, or go the whole hog and frame your artwork properly. Blu-Tak is for temporary attachments; Sugru is intended to be permanent. It will also stain the wall and sometimes pull the paint off if left on for long enough. I think they fixed it since but I recall my last MBP had a wicked sharp edge on it. I used a different trick though, the same one you do when you use tin snips.

You can burnish a sharp edge on metal objects. Oops, I meant screwdriver shaft not handle. That just tears up your screwdriver! Blu tack is a reusable multipurpose adhesive.

It has a clay-like appearance and chewing-gum-like texture. Blu tack is used widely all over the world. From corporate offices to college dorms, it can be found everywhere. The reason for its popularity? Its super easy to use — you simply break off a small piece and stick it to a piece of paper.