I agree it is great glue, I tried this 10 years ago just messing around and aplied it to two pieces of raw wood and I couldn't believe it, i tried to break it and it took a lot of force. infact the wood broke away and the join was still intact. it is the best way to get rid of styrofoam. a couple of dollars for some acetone is a small price to pay and well cheaper than store bought glue
Exact same stuff is sold as PVC weld, just that instead of acetone you use MEK from the fibreglass and boating suppliers. Get an old steel drum with a lock lid, and fill it with the expanded polystyrene, then pour in the 5l of acetone, and close the lid tight. Leave for an hour, open and fill again, and carry on till it is full of the liquid. When it is getting full pour into a cardboard box, well sealed sides and base, with a plastic bag liner, in thin films, and leave to evaporate, and fill up the box, so you can put it in the bin as waste. A fan full of styrene though as solid is about a shoe box full, once all the acetone is evaporated off. For a better version simply mix the acetone and MEK 50/50, and it will stick like crazy to any wood, and will also allow you to do things like stick PVC and PS plastic to wood, or each other easily. Just note it will dissolve PVC and PS finishes, and will tend to degrade the surface around till it evaporates. Also will fix cracked plastic parts, though the surface will be crazed, so only on non visible parts, or from the rear side. to use as crack filler make it more MEK, it does dissolve the PS better.
One more reason to love your channel! As a pretty crafty person I was more excited than I should have been to find a DIY glue tip from my second favorite CZcamsr (the first being my daughter, who is a freaking awesome animator). Love ya Abs!
I use it to patch old composite wood tables that have many holes, then cover it with new plywood or plastic cover. Cool for stuff that don’t need to be perfect but cheap
This was great information! I just got rid of so much foam- 2 jars one pure white one from packaging and one had color from companies who printed on the styrofoam cups or food containers and color egg cartons. I wasn’t taught about the smooth surface vrs the opposite. Thank you so much for showing all it can be used for!
Since yesterday I’ve been down a rabbit hole of learning cool new ways to reuse plastic waste. I’d known about styrofoam dissolving in acetone for years and just now started wondering if the dissolved styrene has any uses. This video was the perfect thing to satisfy my curiosity. I’ll pass on getting high from the evaporating acetone as volatile solvents are very unhealthy to be inhaling. But I will look into experimenting with using polystyrene changed by acetone as a wood glue/gap filler/casting material. I have to resist the temptation to say the acetone dissolves it because the acetone and polystyrene don’t form a solution, they form a mixture where the polystyrene is changed but very easy to physically separate from the acetone and the recovered acetone is unchanged by the process.
Yes the dumpsite charges the same for 40kg of polystyrene as for a 5 ton truck load of mixed rubbish, as it is the same volume. Same for tyres, they charge a very high price, because they do not compact well.
Despite being about as crafty as a slug, I got quite excited to see this tip, Abs! My best friend's husband is a modern day wizard/renaissance man. He has taught himself how to make amazing daggers and knives, and can Frankenstein the most amazing tools and vehicles from combining bizarre things. I immediately shared it with him. If I cannot afford to buy an arcade game from you (even the smaller scale one, which I love, BTW) because of that terribly inconvenient Pacific Ocean and 7/8ths of North America being in the way, I can at least hope he can make me one following your videos! LOL
honestly i love adhesives. and I thank you ever so much for this tip! I use styrofoam as an armature for sculpturs, finishing off with joint compound, paint & poly. or fiber glass pain & poly. but know learning this acetone trick opens up some keen new ideas. I thank ya again :) "quick steel " is a brand name 'round here, it's my personal preference to "bondo" to most any other 2 part epoxy. Thank Dr. Bronner for his magic soap!, that and a nail file is needed to clean hands after. when i remember i'll use a bit of silicone to prep my hands when dealiing with adhesives i dont want stuck yo me - yes, sometimes my hands are held together with super glue :) . which is a favorite glue for so many reason, add baking soda and it drys instantly and harder than it has any right to be
His language didn't bother you? Sad if Young ones are looking this up and have to hear this. Besides, he just discovered this on CZcams the same as we did.
I am keeping my Acetone Glue in a small glass Jar with some acetone to cover the glue. I don't want to empty all of the Acetone from the jar because I dont want the glue to dry up to fast and become Rock hard. I this a good way to keep my Acetone Glue soft and to preserve it longer? 🤓 ❤ 👍👍 👁
Thanks for the tip. I was wondering how to store it. So it sounds like the "glue" is very similar to WOOD FILLER, in that it needs to have a layer of acetone in the container to keep it from drying out.
I wouldn't handle it with your bare hands. Acetone goes right through your skin and into your blood stream. It's not very toxic because your body naturally makes it, but the styrene also goes for the ride.
Is there a way to make this work on paper? I use a LOT of Fabri-tac glue because I make folios for people. So I cover 8x11.5 pieces of board with paper I don't want to end up having bubbles. And how would it be stored?
@@Omegaweapon TOTALLY SWEET❣️. Hopefully it will help fix the leg hole on my deck table🙏 Do you know how durable it is in the outdoor elements? Thank you 💝
There’s a separate app called CZcams Kids for content like that, he shouldn’t have to change the way he speaks just because people like you want him to.
@Jaquavis with your response, I can only hope you are not raising any children. If you are, I would only hope they have better influences than only yours.
@@Allamericanhotrods yikes, the world doesn’t revolve around you and your kids buddy. Most of us enjoy this guys content just the way it is, if you don’t like it you can go find another video 🤦♂️
Hahaha! ....penis joke! Seriously, thanks 4 that little force test, very educative or ?? knowledgeable??, is that the word? Sorry, english ain't my native language.
@@Omegaweapon the soap formula would be easier to pressurize and spray a longer distance without any clogs. I think the styropalm would plug up the nozzle. Maybe a pinch of diesel mixed in just for the aroma.
I made napalm about 20 yrs ago. I was 12 😂 my cousin and I were messing around. We always did experiments, usually survivalist type things like traps. Once we built a fort/ underground shelter in the side of a hill with a fireplace, chimney, and everything lol we'd also do chemistry. So he had seen something about gas and styrofoam making napalm. We thought that was amazing and might help us build more efficient fires in bad weather. We had a metal coffee can which we put regular gasoline in and started melting down any styrofoam trash we found. After a few days and the gas evaporated enough for us to get the slime and make tacky balls out of it. We had built a small catapult in the meantime... so you can guess what our 1st and most dangerous experiment was. We made a ball about the size of a baseball, loaded it onto the catapult, set it on fire, and we were going to launch the fire ball into a fire pit with wood and see if we could set long distance fires, we had this idea from when my uncle tried pouring gas on a fire pit and when he lit it, it exploded from the fumes, so we thought this would be a safer option 😅 we launched the ball but something happened and we missed terribly!!! It splatted a good long way past our target and hit the pool deck. The wooden pool deck. Made of flammable wood. To shorten this tale I ended up having to get a spatula, scrap the fire glob off, then plunge it into a bucket of water. A little scraping and sandpaper and we 'fixed' the damage😅 Bottom line, very flammable, effective weapon of destruction if paired with catapult. The end. 😂
I agree it is great glue, I tried this 10 years ago just messing around and aplied it to two pieces of raw wood and I couldn't believe it, i tried to break it and it took a lot of force. infact the wood broke away and the join was still intact. it is the best way to get rid of styrofoam. a couple of dollars for some acetone is a small price to pay and well cheaper than store bought glue
Lol! “Except you can’t eat it” I was thinking the same thing, I’ve been watching my nephews too much. That’s hilarious.
When I was in the air force, we repaired aircraft batteries using a glue made from styrofoam and polytetrafluoroethylene or darbon tetrachloride.
Exact same stuff is sold as PVC weld, just that instead of acetone you use MEK from the fibreglass and boating suppliers. Get an old steel drum with a lock lid, and fill it with the expanded polystyrene, then pour in the 5l of acetone, and close the lid tight. Leave for an hour, open and fill again, and carry on till it is full of the liquid. When it is getting full pour into a cardboard box, well sealed sides and base, with a plastic bag liner, in thin films, and leave to evaporate, and fill up the box, so you can put it in the bin as waste. A fan full of styrene though as solid is about a shoe box full, once all the acetone is evaporated off.
For a better version simply mix the acetone and MEK 50/50, and it will stick like crazy to any wood, and will also allow you to do things like stick PVC and PS plastic to wood, or each other easily. Just note it will dissolve PVC and PS finishes, and will tend to degrade the surface around till it evaporates. Also will fix cracked plastic parts, though the surface will be crazed, so only on non visible parts, or from the rear side. to use as crack filler make it more MEK, it does dissolve the PS better.
One more reason to love your channel! As a pretty crafty person I was more excited than I should have been to find a DIY glue tip from my second favorite CZcamsr (the first being my daughter, who is a freaking awesome animator). Love ya Abs!
I use it to patch old composite wood tables that have many holes, then cover it with new plywood or plastic cover. Cool for stuff that don’t need to be perfect but cheap
Just a little tip. That stuff in incredibly flammable so watch out for that.
It does make great napalm
It IS the precursor substance to Nepalm.
This was great information! I just got rid of so much foam- 2 jars one pure white one from packaging and one had color from companies who printed on the styrofoam cups or food containers and color egg cartons. I wasn’t taught about the smooth surface vrs the opposite. Thank you so much for showing all it can be used for!
Since yesterday I’ve been down a rabbit hole of learning cool new ways to reuse plastic waste. I’d known about styrofoam dissolving in acetone for years and just now started wondering if the dissolved styrene has any uses. This video was the perfect thing to satisfy my curiosity.
I’ll pass on getting high from the evaporating acetone as volatile solvents are very unhealthy to be inhaling. But I will look into experimenting with using polystyrene changed by acetone as a wood glue/gap filler/casting material.
I have to resist the temptation to say the acetone dissolves it because the acetone and polystyrene don’t form a solution, they form a mixture where the polystyrene is changed but very easy to physically separate from the acetone and the recovered acetone is unchanged by the process.
It chemically melts it, really.
Cheers for this mate, super useful. Hate wasting stuff so this'll be great
Polystyrene is the bane of my existence. It takes up way too much room in the bin. You can store the glue in a squeezy sauce bottle too
I've always hoped for drug lab content from you. Going to order a few 65 inch screens just for highs now.
Yes the dumpsite charges the same for 40kg of polystyrene as for a 5 ton truck load of mixed rubbish, as it is the same volume. Same for tyres, they charge a very high price, because they do not compact well.
Despite being about as crafty as a slug, I got quite excited to see this tip, Abs! My best friend's husband is a modern day wizard/renaissance man. He has taught himself how to make amazing daggers and knives, and can Frankenstein the most amazing tools and vehicles from combining bizarre things. I immediately shared it with him. If I cannot afford to buy an arcade game from you (even the smaller scale one, which I love, BTW) because of that terribly inconvenient Pacific Ocean and 7/8ths of North America being in the way, I can at least hope he can make me one following your videos! LOL
My dad use it for shoe glue, but let’s it dry then joins the shoe and the sole together then heat it up with a hair dryer then it bonds really well
Well, that would have been my applications idea, too. Thanks for sharing so that I kow that it will work!
Very cool mate had to check this out have a bunch of packing from new things an as always has white space wasted styrofoam
Watched a few vids on this subject. Yours is the best. Thanks
honestly i love adhesives. and I thank you ever so much for this tip! I use styrofoam as an armature for sculpturs, finishing off with joint compound, paint & poly. or fiber glass pain & poly. but know learning this acetone trick opens up some keen new ideas. I thank ya again :)
"quick steel " is a brand name 'round here, it's my personal preference to "bondo" to most any other 2 part epoxy. Thank Dr. Bronner for his magic soap!, that and a nail file is needed to clean hands after. when i remember i'll use a bit of silicone to prep my hands when dealiing with adhesives i dont want stuck yo me - yes, sometimes my hands are held together with super glue :) . which is a favorite glue for so many reason, add baking soda and it drys instantly and harder than it has any right to be
It also makes for half decent napalm. If you light it on fire you can throw it at stuff and or people
His language didn't bother you? Sad if Young ones are looking this up and have to hear this. Besides, he just discovered this on CZcams the same as we did.
this stuff is really flammable and hard to put out so beware
But it’s possible to put out lol trust me ik
@@SoCalgardener teach the vietnamese kids then
It's... Basically a precursor to Nepalm solution. So yea, be VERY careful.
Napom
Thank you! The video I watched said to use plexiglass instead of styrofoam, but it doesn't melt in pure acetone.
Thank you for the demonstration!
Great video
Great idea i would try use this material to patch my rotten door frame base at bath room.Just tiny portion rotten at the base where it get moisture.
that's modern day napalm.....
I dropped this on a small Vietnamese family and now I’m at Geneva
I'm definitely on a "list" now
@@Omegaweapon I’m on trial
Love this .. rubbing alcohol should work as well I'd imagine.
It might, but acetone is easy stronger. Petrol also works but you've got all the shitty things that come with petrol
you so speak my language!!
i fricken love it
Congratulations ❤ Best glue skyfoam acetone sir ❤❤❤❤❤
Great video,thanks actually learnt something!
I am keeping my Acetone Glue in a small glass Jar with some acetone to cover the glue. I don't want to empty all of the Acetone from the jar because I dont want the glue to dry up to fast and become Rock hard. I this a good way to keep my Acetone Glue soft and to preserve it longer? 🤓 ❤ 👍👍 👁
Thanks for the tip. I was wondering how to store it.
So it sounds like the "glue" is very similar to WOOD FILLER, in that it needs to have a layer of acetone in the container to keep it from drying out.
@@begleypaul1 Yes I still have it and it is still like Gel and still cover with acetone.
Can you store this glue easily? Or do you have to use the glue more or less straight away?
It's sensitive to air but if you store it in an air tight bottle it'll be ok for a while
@@Omegaweapon ah that's good to hear. Thank you for replying!
@@Omegaweaponcan you keep it on a little acetone to make sure it doesn't harden?
I wouldn't handle it with your bare hands. Acetone goes right through your skin and into your blood stream. It's not very toxic because your body naturally makes it, but the styrene also goes for the ride.
It did go into his system. Notice how he speaks with a funny accent? Lol.
awesome tip, i had no idea! thanks G
I NEEDED NAIL GLUE BAD AND SO NOW IM HERE GURL💀
Mmmmm hmmmmmm girlfren
can I somehow use this to glue foam together?
I don't see why it wouldn't work
Thank you I was looking for the question and answer, now I’ll have to seek in the jewelry box 😂
Great little trick to know. Thank you brother !
8:10pm ET. Can you use this technique inside a freezer to repair broken styrofoam guide rails on the interior walls??????
Most definitely, but you can also use superglue and bicarb soda and build up any missing bits
This mix is similar to napalm and is flamable too
my father does this too, only the glue dries really quick
Is there a way to make this work on paper? I use a LOT of Fabri-tac glue because I make folios for people. So I cover 8x11.5 pieces of board with paper I don't want to end up having bubbles. And how would it be stored?
We are all about 2 clicks away from "how to make Smurf dope"
Possibly one click....
This is so fucking cool thanks man
Will it hold a handle onto a metal rake? My rake has a cylinder metal that accept wood handle and metal from the rake.
I dunno but it will definitely hold a rake to a handle
Yeah, but I playback most of these videos at X2 speed anyway !
the melted styrofoam seems to be like contact cement....possibly glue shoe soles back together.
Are we talking about the acetone that is used to remove nail polish?
The very same
Is this the same reaction you get when you use gasoline
Where you buy the acetone? Can someone tell me please. I appreciate it. 💙 Thank you so much.
Any hardware store should have it
I just saw small bottles that said pure acetone at Wal Mart
It's a sign
Even beauty stores, nail polish remover is the same
Interesting. Do you think this will work on striped plastic hole threads? Looking to repair my son's RC car parts
It dries hard and a little brittle though. Not sure really but it's worth a try. You can always scrape it back out
It’s Mr Wizard!!! 👍😎
Can the material be stored for any length of time??
It can last months in an airtight container, just add some acetone on top
Can I use this in shoemaking to stick upper to the sole?
It's very strong so you probably could
Thas so stinking awesome! Thanks bro
So does it stick to porous or non porous things?
@@Lilly-ho8sb very well to porous, not so well to non porous
Can I use it on roof cracks
Can this replace resin? Once it's dry?
Pretty much yes
😂 one of the best videos I've been in a long time
Can this be stored in a jar or something airtight
It can but you need to top it up with a little acetone to keep it air tight
Can I use this on a garden hose🤯
It might with but I don't think it will hold pressure to be honest
I’d wear gloves…
You like playing snot don’t you!
That glue is called napalm
Can this stick plastic ?
It will stick anything, especially plastic
@@Omegaweapon TOTALLY SWEET❣️. Hopefully it will help fix the leg hole on my deck table🙏
Do you know how durable it is in the outdoor elements? Thank you 💝
@@yvonneg7580 it turns to plastic so it will outlive us both lol
@@Omegaweapon 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@Omegaweapon worth a try since store bought fix did not work! Thx agn❣️
Could you have presented this to all who wanted learn about this without the language? My children and I were looking this up to discover.
This is one of my tamer videos, I was behaving here. It does also say not for kids in the category
There’s a separate app called CZcams Kids for content like that, he shouldn’t have to change the way he speaks just because people like you want him to.
@Jaquavis with your response, I can only hope you are not raising any children. If you are, I would only hope they have better influences than only yours.
@@Allamericanhotrods yikes, the world doesn’t revolve around you and your kids buddy. Most of us enjoy this guys content just the way it is, if you don’t like it you can go find another video 🤦♂️
@Jaquavis Jaquavis, you are so correct and that is the way I handled it. Now I only have to say goodbye to you. Have a wonderful life.
Can it be stored?
It needs to be airtight otherwise it will solidify fairly quickly
Did you just create napalm?
@@eliamauricious yes...
I’m sure someone is gonna try it 4:48
can you tell what should i do to stop it burn to fire
It will only burn off you light it, but if it burns then run
Hahaha! ....penis joke! Seriously, thanks 4 that little force test, very educative or ?? knowledgeable??, is that the word? Sorry, english ain't my native language.
I always thought styrofoam and diesel made napalm? Lol
Gas & Styrofoam make Napalm. Not Diesal
Soap and petrol make great napalm too
@@Omegaweapon the soap formula would be easier to pressurize and spray a longer distance without any clogs.
I think the styropalm would plug up the nozzle.
Maybe a pinch of diesel mixed in just for the aroma.
I made napalm about 20 yrs ago. I was 12 😂 my cousin and I were messing around. We always did experiments, usually survivalist type things like traps. Once we built a fort/ underground shelter in the side of a hill with a fireplace, chimney, and everything lol we'd also do chemistry. So he had seen something about gas and styrofoam making napalm. We thought that was amazing and might help us build more efficient fires in bad weather.
We had a metal coffee can which we put regular gasoline in and started melting down any styrofoam trash we found. After a few days and the gas evaporated enough for us to get the slime and make tacky balls out of it. We had built a small catapult in the meantime... so you can guess what our 1st and most dangerous experiment was. We made a ball about the size of a baseball, loaded it onto the catapult, set it on fire, and we were going to launch the fire ball into a fire pit with wood and see if we could set long distance fires, we had this idea from when my uncle tried pouring gas on a fire pit and when he lit it, it exploded from the fumes, so we thought this would be a safer option 😅 we launched the ball but something happened and we missed terribly!!! It splatted a good long way past our target and hit the pool deck. The wooden pool deck. Made of flammable wood. To shorten this tale I ended up having to get a spatula, scrap the fire glob off, then plunge it into a bucket of water. A little scraping and sandpaper and we 'fixed' the damage😅
Bottom line, very flammable, effective weapon of destruction if paired with catapult. The end. 😂
Niiiiice!
Woah! You really ARE my spirt animal! I have to ask... how did you discover this? Pleeeeease tell me!!!
yeah but it’s also napalm
Yeah that's true, but if I did a tutorial titled "how to make napalm" I'd be banned lol
Tried this and it didn't work
What an incredible waste of time, 7 minutes when you really only needed about 45 seconds,
Oh wow, you couldn't just skip ahead? People wanna see how effective it is, you wanna whine like a little girl. To each their own
FILTHY LANGUAGE
@@igardening1493 stop being a snow flake. As if you have never heard someone swear before.
just stupid unnecessary profanity