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it's time for my first handy tech under a hundred and this time we're going to get hard and sticky so come along and let's fix your pipe manage your cables and then cool you off at the end the Aria headphones from Phoenix come complete with a cardioid clip mic and acoustic chambers constructed entirely of Japanese Pinewood check it out in the link below setting us off with number one is fiberfix it's a resin product that can bond to metal and wood that's available in a patch a heat wrap and a repair rep that's the one that I bought it claims that it could harden like steel sounds great I'm in so to put it to the test I cut through a table leg support with an angle grinder then I followed the fiber fix instructions by preparing the surface around the break by sanding it down with the included sandpaper a little bit and I included some filing just to make it go a bit faster then I put on my gloves and dumped the fiberfix wrap under water for about five seconds now fiberfix doesn't adhere the same way traditional tape does I had to wrap the first few layers carefully making sure they were at least in the right location then with subsequent layers I cranked it in a little bit to make sure that it was all tight following this I wrapped some of the included vinyl strips on top of that also cranking those down and let it sit for about 15 minutes to cure before removing the vinyl then it was time to test it ok so it did come off but that's actually because I deformed the entire pipe against the rock the problem here wasn't the strength or rigidity of the fiber fix it was its ability to adhere to the pipe which I did score quite a bit although admittedly I didn't get all of the paint off but the fact of the matter is I can still pull the remaining still unbroken part out of the end I would suggest using fiber fix along with some type of super glue or Gorilla Glue depending on the project I'm very happy with its strength but I'm not a huge fan of its adherence watch this look quick you're not going to see this completely on camera but you look there I can just pull it right out be next up we have item number 2 sugru its creators it moldable glue and after taking however much you need out of the package you can stick it to loads of different things like ceramics glass metal and wood along with most plastics and even fabrics you then have 30 minutes to fix bond cushion replace mold seal and stick things together then after waiting 24 hours suger will turn into a durable flexible silicone rubber that in the vast majority of cases will stay stuck permanently unless you decide to remove it suru can stand up to some pretty intense conditions as well it's temperature resistant up to 180 degrees Celsius or down to negative 50 degrees Celsius it's dishwasher safe weatherproof and even resist the effects of the ever dreaded salt water it's shock resistant UV resistant and it's even electrically insulating below 24 volts acceptable for small electronics projects I had John use it for a number of things including some cable management cable strengthening mounting an SSD in a computer case and more if you'd like to see a huge range of stuff that suger can do check out their tech DIY outdoors and general tips sections on their site I was originally going to make a video on Channel super-fun about this stuff way back in 2014 but ended up using it all before we got around to it it's pretty great which brings us to our third and final handy sticky product arctic silver thermal adhesive this stuff is the real deal I mean it includes a warning stating that yes it is a permanent adhesive components that you attach with arctic silver thermal adhesive will stay attached forever your 7 grams of thermal adhesive is split in three point 5 gram parts across syringe a and syringe B you will need to mix these parts like an epoxy in equal one-to-one ratios on some sort of tray that you don't mind throwing away after mixing you can use the included mini spatula to apply the solution to your heat sink or chip or whatever you're trying to stick together wafer to cure and voila permanently adhered thermal transfer with solid performance to boot its Arctic silver right so it has 62 to 65 percent silver content by weight pretty intense you can learn more about why this matters here but why would you want this well if you're doing a law to a graphics card which will remove the cooling on a few chips or just working on the smaller electronics project it can often be useful to be able to add heat sinks in places where there aren't holes to mount them by traditional means and since thermal stickers perform worse and don't hold very well under any kind of weight load and drilling through the PCB randomly is obviously a terrible idea this is better than nothing which brings us finally to the full disclosure part of these handy tech episodes lannis originally included this section since they're structured more as a recommendation to buy with links below to Amazon versus a review I personally think this was a wise choice without further ado item one the fiberfix was purchased by me to use for work Taron suggested we get it when Linus broke the trailer and while he already found a solution for that it seemed like a great idea to have some around in the future for just any whatever use case item to the suru was sent to us by sugru themselves for use around the office and we told them since we already had experience with the product a couple years ago that we were pretty sure it would make its way into a video at some point this is that video item 3 the thermal adhesive was purchased by Linus to put the dam 6700 K back together again because it's been apart for a really long time and the tube of thermal adhesive that he had from like six years ago happened to dry out if you're not a member of Dollar Shave Club and you joined today you will get your first month of razors for free they will deliver these razors continually if you stay a 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