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in neodymium we trust

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  • Started 10 years ago by wingpig
  • Latest reply from earthowned

  1. wingpig
    Member

    I have acquired a racing pod in a game of chance a tin of Sugru, which has been sitting in the fridge since my birthday whist I pondered what to use it for. The vendor has just sent the purchaser an email warning about the imminent potential expiry of the unrefrigerated product. The only thing I really need to frequently and snappily mount and dismount from my bike is the camera, but a) I'm not sure I'd trust even really nippy magnets to retain the camera over Edinburgh's rumbleways without at least one small safety lanyard and b) really nippy magnets near electronic equipment containing magnetic storage media is something I was trained to avoid from an early age.

    What has anyone else used this stuff for, successfully?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Neodymium? Good element. I've always had a soft spot for fluorine myself. It's just so uncompromising.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. fimm
    Member

    What is Sugru, and what has Neodymium got to do with it?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. condor2378
    Member

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sugru

    ;-) (Sorry)

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. fimm
    Member

    Yeah, or jfgi.
    Thanks.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. fimm
    Member

    So I googled:
    http://sugru.com/about
    "sugru is the exciting new self-setting rubber that can be formed by hand. It moulds like play-dough, bonds to almost anything and turns into a strong, flexible silicone rubber overnight."

    I have no idea what the OP might do with it. Perhaps this thread might help? ;-)
    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13385

    Posted 10 years ago #

  7. amir
    Member

    Souped-up blutak?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  8. sallyhinch
    Member

    I've not used Sugru on the bike. I did attempt to hack my cafetiere plunger lid with it, with mixed results - I wanted to turn the round knob on top of the plunger into a flat one so I could balance it upside down and not get coffee grounds everywhere while I was rinsing out the pot. It hardened to a nice solid shape and worked beautifully for about a week until my husband used it and it promptly came off in his hand. This might have been a mix of user error (by me - I probably should have more thoroughly cleaned it before attempting to stick the sugru on) and the fact that it was getting regularly steamed by near boiling water.

    I still have two small packs in the fridge which may have gone off. I was going to try and mount my rear reflector better with one of them. I'm not sure I'd trust a camera to it.

    It's a fun idea. The main limiting factor is you can't reseal it so once you've opened a pack you have to use it all in one go. There's lots of little jobs I might use it for (like replacing those little feet on the bottom of your laptop that always come off) if there was a way of just using a bit of it at a time.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  9. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    This stuff is brilliant;

    http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/250g-polymorph-n14at

    Made some fork sliders with it after...ahem...forgetting to take the originals out before the fork was baked in the powder coating process.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  10. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I bought some of the Sugru sampler packs and put them in the fridge because I couldn't decide how to use a whole mini pack at once. I recently made some anti-slip pads for the base of a bag.

    I was unimpressed. The Sugru set overnight and cured to something more like 20-year old hard plasticine than rubber. Maybe I left the stuff in the fridge for much too long.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  11. earthowned
    Member

    I wouldn't trust a magnet to securely hold a mount, but if you are using memory cards as the storage media in your camera then the magnets shouldn't* be a problem. Flash memory devices are silicon based and use floating gate transistors to store data.

    *SanDisk claim their cards can take up to 5000 gauss in a static magnetic field, but apparently they could be fried in a weaker rapidly fluctuating one. I've never tried a destructive test so can't verify the claims.

    Posted 10 years ago #

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