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Instant drying glues aren't usually too strong. At least, that's what I thought until I tried this stuff.
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So got your chainsaw sharpener out there
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Yeah, we're kind of in chainsaw mode. We're cutting firewood one or two days a week
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which means we have saw chains to sharpen. So I had this out. I've made videos on how to use this before
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This is a great thing. I love. A machine sharpened chain makes the saw cut great
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But I had this machine sitting on the bench here, as I was rigging it up to put it in the vice
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And it tipped over a few days ago. And it fell into the tool well
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I mean, just from the surface here into the tool well, it's no big deal, just three or four inches
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But it landed in such a way that this handle broke off. That's metal or plastic
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This is plastic, but there's a metal bolt inside, and the metal bolt goes inside this cast metal housing
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It goes through a hole into the handle, and the metal casting broke
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Really? Yeah. The head of the bolt was still there. It had its little bite of metal casting
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and it was just sitting there. The handle with the bolt, and I thought, oh, that's great. And it's not like it's an easy part to replace
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I mean, like this piece here, it's part of the whole body of the thing
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And the handle's pretty handy. I mean, I could grab it like this, you know, you can be swivel it down
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but the handle is much handier. So I was kind of disappointed. How on earth can I fix that
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Because there's only the slightest. It's just the thickness of the white metal
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shroud that's the surface and you can't solder that sort of thing. There's all kinds of
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plastic around. So I thought, epoxy, no, it's probably not going to work. And then I remembered
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some stuff that I've been using that I've actually done some remarkable repairs with over the last
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six months or so. And it's cyanide glue, which is the fancy scientific name for instant glue
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That's something in that box there? Super glue. Yeah, I have a whole bunch of stuff here. So
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this is from a company called Starbond. I'd never heard of them before until about eight months ago
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And their claim to fame is that they sell the freshest instant adhesos around
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Now, freshness is important because this stuff does have a fairly short shelf life
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And, I mean, it can last for years, but it's not going to last forever. I didn't realize freshness was an issue with glue
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Well, this kind of glue it is. And so I thought, well, let's see how good this stuff is
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Because this is a very challenging repair. As I said, there's not a whole lot of surface area to deal with
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So I've got medium clear, medium dark, because sometimes if you're going to be doing repairs on wood, sometimes you want to color match
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Sounds like you're just driving craft beer there. Well, yeah. I wouldn't want to drink
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stuff but I'll tell you I'm really impressed with with how it works. There's the thin viscosity
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and then there's this medium black which is what I decided to use here because the material's
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black. So it's quite it's fairly thick too. I'll just show you here. It's not all this thick but
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I mean there it is Okay so it kind of full stuff I use this to repair something on my tractor which I going to show you in a minute which has worked out fabulously well So I gave it a whirl here but not just the glue on its own
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Because I sat here for about five minutes trying to figure out how I could clamp this
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Because there's nothing like clamp pressure to improve the survival hood of a glue joint
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when you can really get the parts together. So I put one jaw to clamp here
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and I tried to grab it here or here, but the force wasn't straight down
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so the handle was always flopping from side to side. So I needed something that was fairly instant
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And I mean, this is called an instant adhesive, so you'd think it would be instant. But left on its own, it's not entirely instant
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I mean, it can take five or ten minutes for this thick stuff to harden sometimes
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And that's kind of a long time when you're holding. And not that I don't mind standing here for ten minutes
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but you don't want to move it at all when it's setting up. because you're going to be breaking the bond a little bit
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So what I did was I used some of the star bond accelerator
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which is a spray, and it causes these kind of glues to truly harden more or less instantly
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So it's, well, it's got acetone in it. I mean, you can smell it
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There's other things in it too, I'm sure, but it evaporates away, so it doesn't really affect things
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So what I did here, I used this medium gray star bond on this tough repair all around
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And also I applied some so that the flange of the handle was bonded to the body as well to give it a little bit more purchase
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Was that the goopy stuff I'm seeing in there under the flange? Yes, that's what that is
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And that's actually several applications. So what I did first was I put the glue on this piece
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So as I said, it's the head of the bolt and the bits of cast metal
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I put the glue on there and then I sprayed some of the accelerator onto this surface
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While that accelerator was still wet, I put it together. And in a couple of seconds, it was strong
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It wasn't quite as strong as it is now because I, with the glue bottle, worked in here
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I added some more. And while it was still wet, give it a little shot of the accelerators
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And I am super pleased. I mean, I don't know about you, but at times like this, I'm glad it broke because the repair is so good that it just makes me feel good
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So every time I use this thing now, I'm going to think, well, yeah, that handles on there really nice now
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So as I said, I'm kind of glad the accident happened. It didn't take me long to fix
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If you've never seen accelerator in action, let's take a look here
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So there's the liquid. Clearly quite liquid
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Clearly quite liquidy. And I mean, it's not doing anything, right? It's just sitting there liquidy
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It will cure faster than most other things, but let me just spray a little accelerator on
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And I believe the acceleration is complete now Yeah It pretty hard So it really does accelerate
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And the nice thing is it kind of lets you do something like welding in the sense
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Because as I said, with this handle, it's a perfect example. I could only put on so much glue before I put the thing together
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And that wasn't enough glue because as I said, I wanted to build up a sort of a berm of it inside. side
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It was enough to hold it, but not for full strength. Well, I didn't think so
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You never really know until it breaks again if it was under strong. But the nice thing with this is because the thick variety is thick, it doesn't really run
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away too fast. You can apply it and then give it a shot of accelerator
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It's hard. And then you can do a little more. Another shot. Boom, it's hard
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So it's kind of a game changer. I mean, I've used these instant glues
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ever since I was a teenager. So I'm well familiar with them
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But what I really have impressed here is the different varieties, like there's the thin and the thick, a thicker, medium
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And then combining that with the accelerator and the fact that it's very fresh
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means that it's just done a terrific repair. So I'll show you one other repair I did with this
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I use the thick stuff again, the thick black, and the accelerator. And it saved me a ton of
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of trouble with a pesky problem on one of my old tractors. So let's go and take a look
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So this is the tractor you repaired. A, your old nemesis again. Yeah, the old nemesis. With a rig like this, you're, you know, sometimes you fix things properly
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Other times you just have to cobble things together. And if you do it right, it's going to work
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well. One of the problems with this tractor that I had was that it was always
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it was always leaking hydraulic oil from somewhere. And there's a lot of places this
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thing could leak. So I ignored it for a while, but it was just, it was bugging me too much
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so I wanted to find out where it was coming out from, because the bottom of the body was
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kind of wet with oil, and it was dripping out slowly, but surely. I found the problem
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and it had to do with this dipstick tube. So this is the dipstick that measures how much
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hydraulic oil is in the transmission and in the hydraulic system. So there's the dipstick here
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and then it fits into a tube, which you can see right here
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Now, let's go underneath a tractor, and I'll show you that someone has been, somewhat over the years
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has been kind of, they've modified this tube a bit. So can you see this here, Rella
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This is the tube up here. Can you see that okay? The tube up there
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and then this is a fitting and the tube is brazed into the fitting
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Fine. What I discovered was the brazing wasn't complete. There was a little spot
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where the bronze metal had not flowed and bonded. And because the level of hydraulic oil
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was higher than that little hole, that's where the oil was coming from
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So the proper way to fix it would be to take this out take it to the shop clean it and redo the brazing
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Now that's risky. I mean, maybe it might not have turned out all that well
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It's a fairly small part, and it's troublesome to get all this stuff off
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So I decided to try some of that instant adhesive again. Let's see where you've done it, too
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Yeah. Well, this is three or four months old now. and I used the same stuff, the dark stuff
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I blooped it on and then immediately hit it with the accelerator
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And I just did that three or four times over the area where the hole was
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And this tractor's seen plenty of use since then. It's gotten very hot
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It's basically solved the problem. And it was very fast and easy to do compared with the alternatives
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Now, I did have to drain the hydraulic oil out first, because you can't really do a repair like this one
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and hydraulic oil is seeping out. But it's impressive, though. I mean, you wouldn't think blue would be
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It's very impressive because it's so fast. And, I mean, it is on there. I tried to peel it off with my fingernail and a screwdriver
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And, I mean, it might as well, it might as well be brazing. Not in terms of heat resistance, but just in terms of how tough it is
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I mean, on the surface, it sounds kind of bad to say your main farm tractor relies on super glue to work
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But in this case, it's actually. it's actually pretty good. Well, yes
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I mean, you people out there who know what it's like to live with old machinery and to keep it going
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you know that sometimes your repair work is a combination of go out and buy a new part and put it on
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And, you know, you've renewed that little area of the tractor to like new performance
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But sometimes to do that is just way more trouble than it's worth
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So sometimes sort of makeshift. makeshift repairs are the way to go
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You can certainly go too far in that regard. Your whole setup is operating off nothing but
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bailing wire and duct tape, and that's no... That's pretty much how this tractor was when you got it, I think
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Well, it wasn't bad. I mean, the guy who owned it before, he did some modifications and things
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and, you know, actually built this grapple on the front because he had some big things to move on his farm
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so he wanted something that had a jaw that would kind of open and close and grab things
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Pretty smart guy. Now, is that also the guy who cut off the exhaust, the smoke stack
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so he can get into that low door in his barn? Probably. Well, he changed the tractor from a top exhaust, exhaust stack
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to a belly exhaust where the exhaust comes down underneath the tractor
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because he did have some low barns and stuff. But anyway, high-end instance
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and adhesives have made a pretty big difference here on our shop and our property and maybe it'll do the same for you
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So I hope you've enjoyed the video. Give me some feedback. Let me know what you think
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