Hi Ozbargainers,
5 Second UV Light Liquid Repair Welding Pen, which only goes for US$3.59 now.
It's only good for ducks
Car windscreen?
Broken Heart
Be amazed at 0:55!
Mine's not working properly - it doesn't make that noise and glow when it's cured!
Love the bit where he drops the mikeglue before he's even started! (https://youtu.be/O4RuAhMPgSQ?t=24)
I don't speak Mandarin but I think I've worked out how they say 'cheap Chinese crap.'
Home Dentistry, here I come…
Doctor Who, anyone?
lol let's go weld some cybermen together….at the arse!
Haha the steel winch cable. Apparently the LED is required for 5 seconds even though the motherload of UV is shining in the sky above.
I've used this with filament (3D Printing) that's been printed and for repairs, and it works good - the trick is to make sure the surface is visible for the bonding. Admittedly it takes a few 5 second passes to work well - it turns dull instead of glossy once it's bonded.
I ended up getting this:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-50ml-Kafuter-UV… for $15aud which has a bunch of LEDs and 10x the Resin, was much more effective.
All of the reviews on YouTube showed it not working. But apparently a rival product "Lazer Bond" does seem to work a little better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XMLfaFV8t8
Scratch that, saw a few more videos - its just as bad!
Thanks OP, ordered from ebay for $2.73.
Seriously, take a look at a couple of the videos. This stuff is junk.
I found myself a little frustrated viewing the "it doesn't work as advertised" videos. Most of them seem to not be applying common sense. This is a UV-curing epoxy.. it's not magic. If you apply it and hold it shakily you'll have a bad bond. If you apply it, shine the light on it, realise you're holding the joint badly, go back apply some more, shine the light again you'll have a bad bond. If you try to use it on an application where UV light won't reach most of the bonded surfaces then you'll have a bad bond. If you try to use it on plastics with low surface energy like polyethylene or polypropylene ofcourse it won't work (you need some kind of surface activator).
If you understand what job the tool was designed for, understand its shortcomings and apply a bit of common sense, patience and coordination things tend to work more often than not. If you expect things to work like magic when you press the button, then sometimes they will work if the stars happen to align in your favour and other times they won't… This attitude of expecting everything to "just work" and not having to engage mentally with what you're trying to achieve, then blaming everyone but yourself and writing angry amazon reviews is one of the many things that's wrong with the world.
/rant over
The bonding of the recovery cable to pull the car is quite over the top IMHO (in the presentation video on YT), don;t you think?
Would you use it like that?
Ofcourse it's misleading. All advertisements lie. My problem isn't that the advertising is misleading, it's that people believe the ads and are disappointed when the product doesn't work the way it does on the ads. It's like they have no common sense or basic critical thinking skills.
As a general rule - all ads lie and sales assistants rarely know their product well enough for me to take their recommendation/sales spiel seriously.
Most people buying this will base their expectations on what they show in their own video and what it says on the pack. And it just doesn't match.
I checked 5 or 6 videos last night - they followed the instructions exactly. One guy did everything possible to try and make it work and the truth is, it just doesn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5F9L5CkXT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5J1Ebm69dA
I've gotta say I wasn't especially impressed with any of those. None of them stabilised or supported their work. None clamped the joint. None did a dry run first to stop themselves fumbling with the parts and putting the joint together and pulling it apart repeatedly in the process (almost all of them did thi).
Not saying the product works - or that the advertising isn't deceptive (it definitely is). It's just that in my opinion most of the people in these vids aren't really giving it a fighting chance. I might buy some just for a laugh to test myself. Maybe I'll even shoot a video to post here haha.
apply a bit of common sense
Is there a tube of that included in the box?
patience
OzBargain'ers don't have tim… gotta go!
It's a super-powered liquid plastic UV welding compound.
I love Chinese descriptions, reminds me of the "sharpness: very", "appearance: beautiful" on the knives posted a few months back…
As for this "bargain", untrustworthy seller and still not a 'bargain'.
What's wrong with duct tape?