Price: £11 for twelve multi-coloured 5g sachets, £6 for six of a single colour
From: Sugru
There are some things we get to test that sit around for ages before you suddenly find out that they’re incredibly useful, if not indispensable. Sugru is one of those things. It’s a self adhesive silicon putty that cures from a soft and mouldable putty-like paste to a firm, waterproof and heat resistant rubber finish in the air. It comes in little 5g foil sachets and in black, orange, blue and green colours. You can either buy a pack containing four of each colour or a pack with six sachets of the same colour.
The Sugru website is full of clever, arts and crafts style suggestions for ways to use this wonder material but if I’m honest, I really struggled to find a ‘bikey’ application for it, so the packet sat inside my desk, unloved and unused. That says more about my lack of imagination than anything else, as when I returned to my parents house to find my mother bemoaning a broken cheese grater the first thing that popped into my mind was Sugru. After a bit of rolling, fiddling and sticking, I’d stuck the handle back on with a bare minimum of bulging out bits of Sugru. To be honest I didn’t expect it to last and as I left it to cure on the window ledge I promptly forgot about it.
When I returned and found that the the grater was in full working order, having survived ordeal by dishwasher and cheddar for a good few months. I instantly got quite keen on my Sugru again, dug it out and went to find more things to fix with it. In a quietly useful revolution it’s been passed amongst family members and friend who’ve all found cunning little applications for it. It’ll stick to metal, plastic, ceramics; in fact, pretty much anything, although it failed to stick to Tom’s car dashboard. It’s well worth keeping around as a ‘just-in-case’ fix regardless and will be entertaining to play with if you’re a creative type. A 5g sachet goes surprisingly far and it’s cheap enough that an unsuccessful fix or failed experiment isn’t the end of the world.
Overall: A cunning and highly useful product for fixing, making and improving stuff you already have. The potential is only limited by what you can think of doing with it.
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Mould it round cable outers for frame rub protection perhaps, There’s a bikey application that might work. What’s the firm/rubbery ratio like when it’s cured?
See? I just wasn’t thinking hard enough. It feels slightly firmer than a firm pencil eraser when it’s cured.
That sounds a bit like self-amalgamating tape. SA tape, however, only sticks to itself. It’s used quite a bit in sailing, as it provides a fairly durable, flexible rubber coating.
You could use it to add ribs to your frame and increase the stiffness 😉
Has Tom’s dashboard been cleaned with something with silicone in? That usually stops things sticking..
Is that an out of focus James Blunt holding the cheese grater?
If you send me a packet, I’ll do a road test for you!
Waterproof case for DX battery?
Have so far used it succesfully to waterproof the connection on my Luu light and to make new nose bridge support things on my riding glasses as I lost the old ones.
it’s ace
The website says it only lasts for six months in an unhardend state ( make your own smutty joke ), so maybe not so great to keep around for that just in case repair. Love the idea thouugh. One of the other MTB mags fashioned shaped brake lever grips with it.
On my second packet – use it to stop frame rub and make grips fit my hands like, um, gloves.
Also made part of a chain device – works well.
Doesn’t last 6 months in storage though.
It stuck the cover back onto the top of my road-bike brakes.
But failed to stick my wooden kitchen stools back together, or the exhaust pipe back on my son’s toy tractor, or the sole of my slippers back to the rest of the slippers. 1 out of 4 success rate so far…
Bugger – I bought some of this – used it, then forgot about it – waiting for something that needed fixing! That was 6 months ago – does that mean I’m left with a load of useless putty now?
Hi spokebloke and flowmtbguy, if sugru is stored below 21ºC it will last for 6 months.
Can you tell me the codes on the back of the sachets and I can let you know how much time you should have left to use your sugru 🙂
James
How about some kind of light mount? Helmet or bars.
wingo
chainsuck protection on my carbon frame maybe? How tough is it when cured?