Been tinkering on a budget of 0 dollars, so this video just made my day!

Yeah, I worked for Sugru for 7.5 years as a factory engineer designing/building the machines that pumped/shaped that stuff, I was also involved in mixing the batch ingredients up. I knew Jane very well. Unfortunately, it was always too expensive for most. Obviously, being an employee and an artistic type, I could get access to kilos of the stuff and made lots of arty sculptures with it over the years. The person that invented Oogoo tried to associate it with Sugru and there was some legal shenanigans. The German company TESA bought out the company and the brand several years ago now and Jane has not been officially associated with it for a over a year now. Several years ago Loctite ripped the whole product off, even down to the packaging. Inspite of patents, Sugru could do nothing, Loctite had just tweaked the formula slightly and they got away with it. But Loctite's product simply wasn't the same in terms of it's raw properties and feel. Same with Oogoo. Sugru was/is a much superior product.

If you add a tiny bit of sodium bicarbonate to the mix, it reacts with the acetic acid and makes it much less smelly. The product of that reaction is water, which effectively catalyses the silicone curing reaction. It ends up curing faster and stiffer but the downside is that the surface ends up a little moist. Good for moulds, not so great for sticking it to things.

have made this but did it in a zip lock bag to save getting corn flour everywhere just be careful as the smell of vinegar when you open the bag will make your eyes seriously water

I love these resourceful domestic recipes, I saw this on KZfaq a few months ago as a way to make a silicone mould. The stuff has been sitting on my table since then now you have inspired me to give it a go. Thanks

I use this with high temperature permatex gasket maker. I have a mold that's the shape of my heating block on my 3D printer. So the result is that I make a sleeve for the heating block to dampen the cooling effect from the part cooling fans. Works a charm and lasts a really long time - at least a year - before having to make another.

@Rob I tried doing something similar when I needed to take a mold of the antiskid pattern from my boat deck to be able to stamp it into some thickened epoxy I was going to use to make a repair on deck. All I did was skirt a whole bunch of silicon in a bucket of soapy water, kneaded into a ball inside the bucket, then pressed it onto my boat deck and got the pattern out of it. let it set and had a block I could use to recreate the pattern. Weather all summer was terrible here so still have to make that repair.... but my plan was to put some thickened epoxy in the holes, let it set to tacky, then dab the mould into a bin of powdered sugar so it doesn't stick to the epoxy and stamp and repeat. once it sets, rise the sugar with water and presto... well at least that how it turns out in my head. :) Great video as always.

Very cool, thank you for sharing!

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Great ep fella

Wow, very helpful! Thanks~!

Thanks for this rob it will really come in handy

OMG! I've been working with silicone for years on several projects, just wishing for a solution exactly like this! Thanks a BILLIONDY, Rob!

Great stuff 😎👍

Here is a cool idea regarding 3D printers and this type of silicon-based material. I don't know the feasibility of this, but I would like to explore whether it would be possible. Here is a quick plan I've formulated on this subject:

Very nice.. This is exactly what Im after and your video came at the right time on how to make it yourself. Brilliant. Off topic: I thought I should

Ths is great ! Its exact contents im on this channel for .

Cool, thank you so much for the info.

Ive just come back to the channel Rob, your daily videos were getting a bit much to cope with, but the last couple Ive seen have been really interesting and this one is fantastic! Ive used sugru in the past, but its stupidly expensive as you say, and also you have to use a small amount at a time as once the pack is open the rest gets wasted. Thank you for this tip.

This is great to know, I've only ever bought 2 packs of Sugru due the the crazy high price. Thanks!