Don't throw away the foam, add some solvent and you'll be surprised!

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AI GeneratedThis video demonstrates three practical DIY home hacks: creating a waterproof protective coating from packing foam, using a specialized cutting disc to repurpose glass bottles, and mixing a low-cost chemical solution to remove rust from metal parts.
Hello everyone, I don't want to share any useful advice.
How can you use this foam? I buy household appliances. You have seen more than once
that they pack a large amount of foam and usually all this foam is thrown away.
But if you are a summer resident or live in a private house, then you will never throw away
foam again. First thing I'm going to need is a plastic cup like this. It could be any other
container. It's just that I have such a cup in stock, the following one. Let's take a piece of
foam and break mine into pieces that can then go into this glass. Now that we've crushed our foam,
I'm going to need this xylol solvent. So we add our cup to the xylol.
Well, this amount will be enough and we lower the foam to soil well. As you can see,
almost the entire bunch of foam has dissolved. That is, now we will melt the rest.
We got a slightly thick composition about like liquid jelly. So here's what we got. All the
bubbles are gone. The result is a composition like liquid jelly. This is enough for us and now we
take a brush. A sanded board. Well, I sanded it slightly to show the difference. I immediately
make stickers and tapes like this so that later we can see the difference. So,
apply the mixture over one part like varnish. Notice how the wood gains a similar sheen
to an ordinary varnish. Let's wait and observe the drying effects.
But now let's do the same thing with this piece of paving stone. That is,
we'll also tape half of it with tape to see the result. Well, we cover one half with our
composition. As you can see, the composition immediately highlights the bright color of the
paving stone itself. And most importantly, this is its composition. If you suddenly cover your
paving stones with such a homemade varnish, then it will not be washed away with water. That is,
it goes deep into the pores. But again, if the composition is thin, if it is thick,
then it will lie on top. Now we're waiting for it all to dry up. Well, now let's try to seal
this composition using a collector that I bought at a hardware store. I'll need two cups for this.
I'm pouring part of the composition into a new glass. Then we take a little bit of color.
Wow! That is, it clears quite well. And now we cover another part of the board with the resulting
composition. That is, in fact, it turned out like a colored varnish dye. You can add any one.
My dye says the color of garnet. Even I kind of poured a lot here. Well,
the tree is already beginning to appear. That is, it takes on as much dye as it needs.
We decided to speed up the drying process and now we will try using a construction hair dryer.
Yes, right before your eyes it spills out and is absorbed. That is, this is also such
useful advice. If suddenly you need to quickly cover something and soak it a little,
then you can blow dry the composition. The most important thing is going deep from above. There
is practically nothing left. Well, as you can see, everything is already asleep.
Well, to make the experiment completely complete, I took a piece of metal and decided to try
painting it too. But before doing this, I degrease it. Now let's see how this composition falls on
the metal. Well, so that it can be seen, so that it is opaque, I took just the right composition.
Well, it fits perfectly. Well, what will it be needed for? I think you guessed to protect the
metal from rust. That is, roughly speaking, what is a protective coating from rust. And
we'll also try to dry it with a hair dryer. So when we dried it with a hair dryer, it also becomes
matte. But the composition remains on the metal. With the help of the fact that we painted the
composition, this is clearly visible. Look at the color here. Here it is not painted. That is,
you can see. Well, now let's try what the composition does. Remove the tape. I will say
right away that literally half an hour passed. That is, we dried with hay to speed up this process.
So now we take plain water, cover it, and see what the result is. Well, as you can see here,
you can even clearly see that this coating works as a hydrophobic liquid coalesced, as if, that is,
here it was immediately absorbed. You can see it right away. Here you can see the droplets. Here
we put them on the side. As you can see, the composition works. Now let's do the same thing
with the stone. Let's take a paving stone. I don't want to. So they peeled it off. Well, the first
thing you probably see right away is that the difference is in color. That is, here it is so
matte. That is, behind the sniff here, it is a really bright color. That is, this composition
works like a varnish for stone. Well, now let's do the same thing by pouring water on the paving
stones. As you can see, the result is immediately obvious, where everything is not covered at once.
It's soaked up where we covered our composition, as you can see.
All the water remained at the top. Due to this, your paving stones will live much longer.
So, friends, I hope you find this foam tip useful. In fact, with the paving stones,
he really appealed to me, because every year I... treating my paving stones with a hydrophobic
composition and spending a lot of money on this. Now I will make this almost free material,
and I think that the effect will be even better. Did you see on TikTok that this is such a green
disc? They cut bottles, that is, bottle glass, porcelain, tiles. And if there are no questions
about tiles, they have long ago come up with a material that calmly cuts them,
then I have questions about glass. To be honest, I don't believe that it can cut glass,
as shown in the video. Therefore, I specially ordered such a disc in China,
and today we will test it. Probably many people have such beautiful bottles left, and you,
like me, can't raise your hand to throw them away.
And today I'm going to show you what you can do with these bottles.
So, friends, I'm really surprised at the results of how this disc works, but you saw everything
yourself in the video. It really works. The bottles, as you can see, are flat. Well, on some
I had a big bottle looking for, but this is probably because of my awkward movement. It is
actually very easy to fix the disc with this disc. In addition to cutting, it can also grind and
level edges. Of course, after the disc, you will still need a small one. Sandpaper with water
is to process the edge so that they are not sharp. The drive actually works, and it opens up
great possibilities for working with glass. Now, you cannot throw away such empty bottles,
make various glasses, vases, candlesticks from them. Well, that is everything for which you have
enough imagination and... By the way, we couldn't resist and made one craft very quickly, in probably
three minutes. Now I'll show you what we did. So we cut off the bottle, made slits, put a tea light,
and we got this candlestick. That is, due to these slots, air gets in and the candle does not go out.
Tonight, it looks just amazing to see.
For this experiment, we will need ordinary hydrogen peroxide, 3% of which can be purchased
at any pharmacy. Costs quite inexpensive. The next component that will be required for our
experiment is water. We need about 100 ml. We need to heat the water. This can be done in the
workshop using a hair dryer. So after we have heated the water, the water does not need to be
brought directly to a boil. It was a little warm. We take the next ingredient. The next ingredient
is table salt. We'll need about a tablespoon of salt. We add it to our warm water and stir the
water. Warm is needed so that the salt dissolves well in it. After all the salt has dissolved,
I will need a plastic cup like this. A cup of such good density that is dense. We pour the
resulting liquid into the cup. As you can see, the salt is almost completely dissolved.
We understand the cap and we also remove this plug and now we pour hydrogen peroxide into our
liquid. We pour the entire tube of 100 ml. The next ingredient we will need is regular citric
acid which can be bought at a regular grocery store. It is quite inexpensive. We will need
two tablespoons and immediately add it to our solution. After that, we thoroughly mix everything.
The solution is ready. This solution will be useful to us for a quick and very thorough removal. Rust
from metal parts. It happens sometimes you come across such parts that, for example, cannot be
cleaned of rust mechanically. And this solution will serve us for that. We immerse all our rusty
parts and now we need to wait a little. Well, as you can see, the reaction started literally after
30 seconds. Moreover, such a violent reaction immediately caused bubbles. In the same way,
you can immediately see that the water changes its color. That is, it has started.
Acquire such a faint rust color that is, slowly this solution is already starting to work.
Well, now we are recording the time. How long will it take to completely clean these details?
So now 14-33 minutes ago we loaded the parts. Show me the details and we'll see how long it will take
for us to clear them. I want to immediately notice what you see. We specially made it so that
our parts did not completely go into this liquid, so that later you would not say that we cheated.
And this solution does not work, as you can see. Naturally, in theory, they should not be purified.
That is, they will remain in the same condition as they were like champagne. So it's been 8 minutes.
The color of the water has changed. It now looks very similar to fun too.
The reaction is also still going on, so we wait further.
So it's been about an hour and 15. Well, there are pluses and minuses there.
Our water has turned into something opaque. Well, now let's get it out and see how it works.
Well, I think we'll probably rinse it in regular water first, that's all.
Well, now let's get to work on it. As you can clearly observe,
all the rust has been removed from the bolt, except where untouched.
Naturally, the rest remains rusty, showcasing the process. Here it is, the ball. You can water it
right away. And as you see, there's no rust remaining. Truly, friends, the solution works
fantastically and delivers remarkable results. It's absolutely worth trying.
It's incredibly affordable and practical for household use. Truly, as demonstrated,
the method works flawlessly, delivering 100% results. It's highly effective and costs mere
pennies. Like my video. Like, ask a question. But for today, I have everything for now.
