Social media has been bombarding me with videos of welders that promise to fix broken plastic, so I bit. Here’s what I learned after doing so.
There’s a lot inside the plastic welding kit!
The social media algorithms have clearly labeled me „Mr. Fix-It,“ as my TikTok and Instagram feeds are swarming with mesmerizing videos of plastic welders in action.
Haven’t caught one of these cool clips? Feast your eyes on this gem.
The concept is simple yet brilliant: use these „welding wizards“ to fuse tiny metal staples into the fractures of cracked plastics — anything from rugged tool cases to the abundance of plastic adorning modern vehicles — and give a fresh lease on life to once-broken items.
These things look seriously neat.
But I had questions:
There was only one way to unravel these mysteries — I had to take the plunge and buy one.
ZDNET RECOMMENDS 150W Plastic Welder Kit
The 600-piece kit comes with a hot stapler soldering gun and a bounty of welding rods for fast repairs.
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The 600-piece kit comes with a hot stapler soldering gun and a bounty of welding rods for fast repairs.
For the money, you get the welder — which looks like a ray gun — a load of different metal staples, cutters, an array of different plastic rods to use as filler material for the cracks, and a tool to melt the rods into the plastic cracks.
