The Amazing Feats of Hot Glue
January 27th, 2007 by SplineGuy
What the heck is it? I considered making my own contribution similar to Little David’s series of the “Watzit” contest. I decided that since this is likely to be a one time entry that you could just pretend to not know what it is and pretend not to see the rest of the pictures below.
Thanks to Lifehacker, I have answered an age-old question: How do you replace those lost rubber feet off the bottom of your laptop? Every laptop, I’ve ever owned has had little rubber feet on the bottom that basically act as “scootch” guards, keeping them from sliding around, as well as elevating the laptop to help keep the temperature down slightly. Every laptop I’ve ever owned has also chosen to reject those feet at some time and, inevitably, they are lost for all time. Once or twice, I have sent a laptop in for repairs for other issues such as a broken screen or crashed hard drive and occasionally, the nice repair folks at Compaq, HP or Dell would replace those for me. Not always, but at least a couple of times. I’ve also trip purchasing the little rubber feet that stick on with an adhesive and although they work for a time, they eventually are rejected as well and lost again.
I’ve discovered a new idea. Someone mentioned using hot glue to adhere these cheap little pieces of rubber so as to keep them on for longer periods of time. As a matter of fact, I’ve tried all the glues I felt comfortable sticking to the bottom of this expensive piece of machinery and they all fail in a relatively short amount of time. Then someone realized, who needs to buy the rubber feet when the glue will work just as well. And if it does happen to fall off, just put another dab on. See my handiwork:
Other amazing feats of Hot Glue (pun intended):
- Weak bonding especially good for porous medium
- Shoe repair
- Handitack replacement, such as attaching laminated posters to cinder block walls. You should probably not use on painted drywall unless you’d like to remove part of the wall when the poster comes down. (but who would ever take down that Princess Poster?)
- Permanent Ear Plugs
- Keeping the kids down for a nap
- Any other ideas???
I didn’t use hot glue on Emily’s walls, but I did use it to attach posters to my classroom at MHS back in the day. It worked very well and didn’t even leave a mark when I took the posters back down in May.