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Sparkly's Clever Idea

Sporadic Sparkly

It's been a while since I last visited the forums and contributed anything, mainly because I've been busy with other stuff. However, I wanted to share an idea I had. I've been working on a DIY/craft project that involves using superglue. All was going well until I went to squeeze my large tube of superglue (to push it further up the tube), which then resulted in the bottom corner of the tube developing a crack, causing superglue to ooze out.

The last thing I wanted was to throw my damaged tube of superglue away and buy another tube, especially as there was still a lot of glue (more than half) inside the tube. As a temporary fix, I wrapped some clear packaging tape around the tube. However, each time I needed to squeeze the superglue towards the top of the tube, it would ooze out from under the packaging tape. After the tube developed a few more cracks, that's when I had what I thought was a rather clever idea indeed.

I knew I'd got some self-fusing silicone tape left over from when I'd had to deal with a leaking pipe. It occurred to me that if I was to use the silicone tape on my tube of superglue, it might enable me to carry on using it without glue oozing everywhere.

My intention had been to wrap the whole of my superglue tube with the silicone tape, but unfortunately I didn't have quite enough silicone tape left to be able to do that. Somewhat frustrating as there's a crack just above where the tape finishes. However, the good news is that no glue is oozing out of the tube where the tape has been applied. Therefore, my idea does appear to have worked. Grin

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  • Not so much my own idea, but I was heading in the right direction and a total godsend of a YouTube video took me the rest of the way to a place of deliverance. Basically, my earphones (with lightning connector) have increasingly been cutting out with even slight movement of my phone and this last three days stooped working entirely. Another pair or two confirms it's the phone post not the earphones at fault. It also made me wonder if I'd needlessly thrown away and replaced some chargers assuming the wire inside had become loose. Anyway, the cause it seems was a gradual erosion of the charging post itself - getting a tiny bit wider at a glacial pace until finally... no more steady contact. 

    Once I realised that only the back of the charge port requires contact, the next thought was 'I wonder could I wedge something in? I thought I'd cracked it with a cautiously inserted paper-clip (got a few seconds of blissful earphone functioning) but alas that was short-lived. However, the TY video had the final answer: cut a little strip of parcel tape, insert it so that the sticky side sticks to the front of the port, snip off the excess, then put the charger/phones on and... hey presto. What a relief!

    Anyway, paying it forward, lest any of you runs into this issue. A nice short-cut to a workable solution. :-)

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  • Not so much my own idea, but I was heading in the right direction and a total godsend of a YouTube video took me the rest of the way to a place of deliverance. Basically, my earphones (with lightning connector) have increasingly been cutting out with even slight movement of my phone and this last three days stooped working entirely. Another pair or two confirms it's the phone post not the earphones at fault. It also made me wonder if I'd needlessly thrown away and replaced some chargers assuming the wire inside had become loose. Anyway, the cause it seems was a gradual erosion of the charging post itself - getting a tiny bit wider at a glacial pace until finally... no more steady contact. 

    Once I realised that only the back of the charge port requires contact, the next thought was 'I wonder could I wedge something in? I thought I'd cracked it with a cautiously inserted paper-clip (got a few seconds of blissful earphone functioning) but alas that was short-lived. However, the TY video had the final answer: cut a little strip of parcel tape, insert it so that the sticky side sticks to the front of the port, snip off the excess, then put the charger/phones on and... hey presto. What a relief!

    Anyway, paying it forward, lest any of you runs into this issue. A nice short-cut to a workable solution. :-)

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