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How to make liquid plastic and cover tool handles with it

Liquid plastic is similar to thick paint, except that after hardening it turns into plastic. Making it at home or in the garage is not difficult. All you need is a couple of ingredients.

You will need the following

  • Xylene.
  • Several types of plastic.
  • Tightly closing container.
How to make liquid plastic and cover tool handles with it

How to make liquid plastic

In theory, you just need to mix xylene with hard, broken plastic and get liquid plastic at the end. But here, as you probably already guessed, not everything is so simple. The fact is that xylene does not dissolve all brands of plastic, so you need to experiment.

We take 2 samples: a piece of the body of a computer device and rods from a plastic broom. Grind everything and fill 2 vessels.

How to make liquid plastic and cover tool handles with it

Fill with xylene in a ratio of 1 to 1.

How to make liquid plastic and cover tool handles with it

We leave it for two weeks, yes, we will have to wait. As a result, the experiment in a jar with a broken body was a success.

How to make liquid plastic and cover tool handles with it
How to make liquid plastic and cover tool handles with it

It turned out to be liquid plastic, the best you can get.

Where to use homemade liquid plastic

Homemade plastic adheres well to metal, so it can be used to cover the handles of any metal tool. We just take a brush and apply the composition in a thick layer like paint onto, say, pliers.

How to make liquid plastic and cover tool handles with it

Let it dry in the fresh air.

How to make liquid plastic and cover tool handles with it

And, as a result, we get an almost monolithic coating that is easy to hold in your hand.

How to make liquid plastic and cover tool handles with it
How to make liquid plastic and cover tool handles with it

You can come up with other uses for this wonderful liquid miracle plastic yourself.

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Comments (3)
  1. Andrey Ivanitsky
    #1 Andrey Ivanitsky Guests March 23, 2021 06:41
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    Dissolve plastic with Xylene in a plastic container?)
    Experiment two in one :))
  2. Dmitry Dmitrievich
    #2 Dmitry Dmitrievich Guests 25 May 2021 09:04
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    Actually, xylene is a derivative of benzene. Therefore, instead of xylene, it is better to use benzene itself, or its derivatives - toluene, xylene, etc.
  3. techno clown
    #3 techno clown Guests September 5, 2021 07:06
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    What about isolation? Did you squeak?
    I think that this thing needs to be torn in several layers

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