You have something that doesn’t move but it is supposed to? We know the fix for that: WD-40 
. But what about the opposite? The joke says, duct tape. But personally, I hate that stuff with a passion. It never holds for a long time and always leaves a sticky residue afterwards.
With that in mind, I would like to hear what you all use when you need to do a “quick-fix” on something. My favorite is by far solid steel wire and hot glue (note: you can vote on more than one item), though I do also like masking and mailing tape as well.
I think there is probably something in every corner in my house that I have fixed with solid wire. Some items include (but are not limited to): my computer chair, my ghetto headset, the shower curtain in my rental place (I made both the hooks and the curtain rod from steel wire… yeah super
, but good enough for 1 year before I moved out), the handle on the vacuum cleaner, the fridge in my first rental place (after a crazy roommate broke half of the shelves), one of the cabinet mechanisms in the kitchen, many PC heatsinks… and most recently, the hood latch handle on my car. So, in short, I use it A LOT. Basically, my dad got a spool of the stuff and it was sitting in the garage, unused for years. Then I used it to fix something (I don’t even remember the first thing I fixed with it), and the next thing you know, that spool was unwinding fast! Since then, I swear by steel wire. It is either 16 or 14 AWG, so quite strong.
As for hot glue, I truly got introduced to it in high school engineering/CAD class. Once I figured a “proper” technique for applying it (which really is just applying the glue when it gets very hot and smoothing all edges where it catches on the material), it proved to be quite strong, especially on wood and acrylic glass (i.e. Plexiglas). The entire senior project (an RC car built from scratch, minus the electronics) for my high school engineering class was held by hot glue (save for a few necessary screws here and there). And even my headphone amplifier uses plenty of that stuff. All of the hot glue in it still holds strong. I also regularly use it to hold together opened power adapters and to strengthen the wire sleeves where the wires exit out of the adapters. Therefore, I always keep my hot glue gun handy and loaded.
So what is or are your favorite fastening materials?
. But what about the opposite? The joke says, duct tape. But personally, I hate that stuff with a passion. It never holds for a long time and always leaves a sticky residue afterwards.With that in mind, I would like to hear what you all use when you need to do a “quick-fix” on something. My favorite is by far solid steel wire and hot glue (note: you can vote on more than one item), though I do also like masking and mailing tape as well.
I think there is probably something in every corner in my house that I have fixed with solid wire. Some items include (but are not limited to): my computer chair, my ghetto headset, the shower curtain in my rental place (I made both the hooks and the curtain rod from steel wire… yeah super
, but good enough for 1 year before I moved out), the handle on the vacuum cleaner, the fridge in my first rental place (after a crazy roommate broke half of the shelves), one of the cabinet mechanisms in the kitchen, many PC heatsinks… and most recently, the hood latch handle on my car. So, in short, I use it A LOT. Basically, my dad got a spool of the stuff and it was sitting in the garage, unused for years. Then I used it to fix something (I don’t even remember the first thing I fixed with it), and the next thing you know, that spool was unwinding fast! Since then, I swear by steel wire. It is either 16 or 14 AWG, so quite strong.As for hot glue, I truly got introduced to it in high school engineering/CAD class. Once I figured a “proper” technique for applying it (which really is just applying the glue when it gets very hot and smoothing all edges where it catches on the material), it proved to be quite strong, especially on wood and acrylic glass (i.e. Plexiglas). The entire senior project (an RC car built from scratch, minus the electronics) for my high school engineering class was held by hot glue (save for a few necessary screws here and there). And even my headphone amplifier uses plenty of that stuff. All of the hot glue in it still holds strong. I also regularly use it to hold together opened power adapters and to strengthen the wire sleeves where the wires exit out of the adapters. Therefore, I always keep my hot glue gun handy and loaded.
So what is or are your favorite fastening materials?
Seen 3M tape hold trim on vehicles for 30+ years, I stand by my comment.
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