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You could use a plastic bag or just something else that you're capable of throwing away. But probably you don't want to use a paper product like cardboard. So here's what I'm going to do this process actually goes extremely quickly. So I don't have a lot of time to explain it while I'm working, but I'm going to sprinkle a bit of baking powder on one side. That is more than enough and then I'm going to put some superglue over here now, I'm going to, as I mentioned, dip the broken side in the superglue and then dip it in the baking powder and I'm going to build up a little point off of the Broken area and wipe off the loose baking soda, where it looks a little bit like a stalagtite in a cave, it's just going to be slowly rising up out of the baking soda and super glue with repairfixit.

Once I put the superglue on this stuff kind of dries quick, so I'm holding out until I'm actually ready. So let's see this process in action, I'm going to put the superglue on there and then begin okay, that's it we're pretty much done here now. I gave this a little bit of time to dry, but not a lot. This should be surprisingly strong. Actually it's it's not just gon na break off instantly. This is tough stuff. Now, at this point, you're gon na want some kind of file to get this down to the shape you need now. I don't think I got a lot of extra space in here, so I'm gon na not really file on this side.

I want to get it smooth, but I'm gon na leave that for the most part, but I do need to go ahead and file this down be the same thickness as there. So let me get started on that. I actually made this way too big. You can see here that the little piece doesn't come above this at all and here make it go way out there. You know I'm just gon na go for broke here and try snipping some off see how this goes well that backfired alright. But that is that's incredibly strong and I think I can a little bit yeah to the inside from there now. So I'm gon na work on that a little bit. Okay, there we go reapplied, it's a little bit tall still, but I can file that down. But, more importantly, I got it to curve over into the hook area, some more actually so that might actually do something, but I need to get back to filing now. So, let's work on that, okay, you know what I'm realizing that there's a lot of open space on the bottom of the case here, where this one actually goes. So that might be all I need to do. Let'S try reinstalling this and see if it works.

Obviously I could pretty this up a little bit more, but I just want to get a functionality test right now, that's working yep no longer falling down and you can't see it at all from the front. This is a totally invisible repair. As far as external viewers are concerned, you know it's there, but that's your own fault. If you tell them at this point now it's a little tight. I can actually kind of position this stuff, but it might wear into it a little bit but yeah. That'S that's! Working really really well all right. I'Ve gone back and filed it a little bit more, but let's take a look at the now repaired and original sides, so it was a little bit difficult to go through and match the radius here, while maintaining the bite part at the top. But I think this came out pretty close, it's really difficult to build up towards this part, because you have to be able to apply material directly to the face that you want to extend and well there's this part in the way it may be possible to use A really thin layer of something and get in between these, but it's gon na take a lot of work. Still, though, I think this turned out really good as a match for the other side, all right and here's how the results are once it's done. This is fully reattached on this side. No real issues can put it back up stays in place. I would call that a successful repair, so there is a terrific example of how you can reconstruct plastic. That'S missing.

I didn't put the part back on that broke off. I rebuilt it from nothing. Okay, that was the main part of this video everything else after this is an experimentation in this repair process. So if these don't turn out, don't blame me, I'm giving you an opportunity to see exactly what I see as I do this. So let move on to this Lloyd's automatic or a Q. Matic 30 calculator. Now I pick this up a while ago because I thought it looked extremely pretty. I love this beige and brown design pattern. Oh it's just so nice and yeah. I got it for a fairly good price, so it has a crack now. This is a cosmetic part. Unfortunately, so I don't want to apply this to the outside, but I could try and do it from the inside now everything I'm about to do I've not researched or seen if anyone else has tried this, so this is just going to be my experimenting with my Own ideas to see how this works, so I have this crack now I could try filling this crack with superglue holding it in place and letting it set and see if that cures and makes the repair solid enough, but my experience with superglue that has not been The case, so I want to try and do something, a little different using this baking soda method. Now this calculator comes apart in a really obnoxious way. The plastic does just snap apart, which is probably why it broke in the first place, but we can get this part off now.

What I want to try is to fill this with superglue and baking soda in that corner to make it solid on the inside. So, let's see about how I think you could go about doing that alright now the first thing I'm doing is taping the plastic back into the position that it should be in. This is not perfect, but frankly this isn't an amazing calculator. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but that's good enough to where I don't think. You'Ll really notice the problem. If I am successful with this repair, so I have the plastic back in the position that I want it now like. I said I want to try and do this from the inside, so here's what I'm going to get a little creative with this process, I'm gon na use one of these little things. I don't know exactly what you're supposed to do with that, but I'm going to suck up a bunch of the baking powder into this bulb someone's gon na get it all up in there tap it down in some hair back out suck some more up in and Just get some in here and then I believe I should yes be able to just tap some or yeah apply some by squeezing it. So this should give me essentially a powder applicator, and you can probably guess where I'm going from here, I'm going to put a drop or two of superglue along the seam in there and then try and put the baking powder directly onto it and build up a Surface inside the unit - and hopefully that will be strong enough to hold it together, though, let's try this out well, that was immediately too much, but I can just tap it off. Alright, let's see if it's the only powder on the top, that's rock solid, Wow.

Okay, I can't really push it in okay. Let'S keep going obviously way too much again, but I'll just tap it off and there we go. Okay, all right, that's definitely forming a solid piece in there. I am going to have to go back and file off the edge here because this interlocks onto the bottom piece down here. So that's something I'll have to do, but I'm liking that so far, I'm going to try and do one more up in this corner for good measure that was much more targeted application this time. Okay, I think I worked that feels pretty solid all right. Let me try filing down up in there a little bit and then reassembling the calculator there. We go uh wow! That'S awesome, I'm extremely happy with that repair I mean. I don't know exactly how strong that's gon na be. I know to treat it gingerly now, but yeah that worked extremely well. Okay, all right. Let'S take this same principle and move on to trying it on something else. Now: okay, this is not a flip clock actually, as we'll see as we get in here. So this is a GE.

I forget what the model is there. 81. 42. 4. I don't know it's a pretty simple clock here. Really, there's not a lot going on. It'S actually cool! You could in a way argue that this is a flip clock, but you will definitely get people who will say no, it isn't come on open up here we go now the problem with this clock is you can see this thing here? That'S for setting the time. Okay, now there's supposed to be another one for setting the alarm, but that is broken. So let's go ahead and get the mech out wow that transformers really hot. Actually, that's a motor okay! Now I've got the parts for the alarm right here. The plastic has contracted the gear split and it will no longer work. This is a tale as old as time, and this problem afflicts, unfortunately, Selectric typewriters as well, but this repair concept it's not going to work on those so yeah. Okay: here's why you could potentially consider this a flip clock, even though it isn't you see the dial or the digits in there well, as this rotates around they to actually flip just in the back. They pull a 180 as it goes through. So there's numbers on both sides of the tiles. This is still a really cool clock. It'S just not quite a flip clock. Also, unlike flip clocks, you can set the time either direction. This is things pretty cool now, anyway, let's get back to the repair.

So here's the idea I have it should be possible to once. Have this be a solid piece to slide it back on to the gear here, because it's open for the most part there you would have to get over a slight bump before you get to the knurling. So here's what I'm hoping I can put this back together and then just slide it over well yeah. You probably figured that so I've already tried to do this with just plain superglue, without any luck whatsoever. Now, I'm hoping that this new method, where I create a thicker surface on top, might actually work. So let's do this again with some tape. All right, try and put this together in the shape that I want the teeth on the outside of this are not crucial to the functionality. I hate superglue bottles so much anyway.

The teeth aren't structural, so if they don't have the correct pitch between all of the teeth, that's not going to be the end of the world getting better at that powder application. Okay! Now, let's tap that off and go for round two! This is actually kind of fun. Okay. Now I don't see any reason for me to not try putting some of this on the back as well to add some strength there, man, this is really cool. Let me I want to really just lamely wipe this off with my shirt. If you were gon na get serious about this, maybe isopropanol for cleaning off any potential finger oils, this one's slightly more critical, because there's no lip so I can accidentally get down into the hole and then decrease the diameter of the hole minute. There'S no way it'll fit on there, so I do need to be careful that I don't want to go too thick on this side. So do need to be cautious of that, but that's my only real limitation here.