Sugru comes in 5-gram packets (or “sachets” as they’re called on the official website). Here’s what one looks like:
In the background in the above pic you can see the Kindle 2 cable I decided to test the Sugru on. I hadn’t used my Kindle in a month or two and recently connected it to my MacBook Pro—and as I did, the casing on the cable just beneath each plug had become so brittle it partially shattered.
Here’s what it looks like once you cut it open:
Sugru feels like Play-Doh crossed with Silly Putty—but much more like Play-Doh.
And here’s the Kindle cable once the Sugru has been smeared on:
And here’s the other end of the same Kindle cable:
And here’s my wife’s iPhone cable with the same treatment. Both ends of that cable’s casing had broken, but not as bad as my Kindle cable:
And here’s a before-shot of the other end of my wife’s iPhone cable before I put the Sugru on:
And here’s with the Sugru on:
And finally, I tried it out on a custom Munny toy I’ve been working on for a while, but ran into difficulty on. I cut a hole in his butt for part of the project I no longer want to do, so I thought I’d see how Sugru would do at filling the hole:
UPDATE #1: Here’s a pic of the Munny’s butt before I added the Sugru:
The hacked electronics on the other side of that USB port ended up being to tricky to deal with so I opted to simplify things. Hence, the hole to be plugged…
END UPDATE #1
So, all of the Sugru is curing now and I’ll take more pics tomorrow and post ‘em so you can see how things turned out.
UPDATE #2: The Sugru has cured but I haven’t had time to post new pics, but I will hopefully get to it later today (20100803 ET).
