5 Second Fix | Infomercialism

Let's find out if 5 Second fix actually fixes stuff in 5 seconds!
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[@pixeljauntvr7774]

I'm more impressed with how easily those scissors cut through that packaging.

[@Larry]

It's a knock off a product called Bondic, invented by a dentist and using the same product as what they use for compound fillings. I've tried the 5 Second Fix version, it's no where near as good as Bondic, but then again it's about a third of the price.

[@ECL28E]

Yeah, this just screams "Dental filling".

[@SigEpBlue]

It's a shame there isn't a bigger market for DIY dentistry.

[@CesarDaSalad]

Butt, hello you!

[@Weareonenation303]

This thought was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the UV light. "Wait, I remember seeing a similar device when I had my braces glued many years ago"

[@sonjapersch6074]

@@SigEpBlue this will give me nightmares lmao

[@BradBurnian]

Tell me more about this Hyper Magnet Frisbee Truck...

[@Mimiheart9]

It's UV resin. The end.

[@Mimiheart9]

If that had a better light it probably would work. UV resin gets hot when it cures. 30-60 seconds under a good UV light works well, but that dinky little light would take forever. You can also put it in the sun for a half hour or so.

[@AndyR072]

You didn’t make the noise, you’re supposed to make the noise

[@NekoJesusPie]

You can just buy better uv resin at daiso 🤷‍♀️

[@rosiejl2798]

@@NekoJesusPie Unless you are in Australia where you can get it online from overseas or from JustResin.

[@PeninsulaPaintings]

No, it's a magic hyper-super plastic molding material...pay attention

[@Nathan_A_RF]

This should be more of an advertisement for how good those glasses are than anything else

[@sherrie553]

Mike is still alive.. was begining to think potatoe diet finished him off

[@ollieb9875]

*P O T A T O* 😳😁

[@kinagrill]

It did - this is the intelligent-potato aliens-made clone that's taken over.

[@highpriestofzuul8921]

Ah, yes, a welding tool that comes with absolutely no instructions. Shocking that it doesn't seem to actually work. Now go get your car stuck in a ditch and see if you can pull it out with this stuff.

[@R33Racer]

I was *VERY* skeptical right up to the point they claimed it can pull a _"4000 truck"_ . Called bullshit as soon as I saw that. This is absolutely scandalous and amazing they got away with selling it with such wild claims. If you want a good strong glue and quick solidification, you can't beat the super glue and baking/bicarb soda trick.

[@patchwrk]

I've used this stuff before and it's pretty good but you need to keep the UV light still so it can react properly. Waving it around like that doesn't let the process happen. It's not like super glue, there is no intrinsic chemical reaction.

[@ECL28E]

I sawed this boat in half!!

[@hello7533]

@@ECL28E THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE!

[@zantanzuken]

well its really not THAT hard to pull a 4 ton truck.... that has wheels... and is probably in neutral... people push cars all the time.

[@R33Racer]

@@zantanzuken Do a video of you pushing one slightly uphill on a flatbed, and I will believe you, muscle man.

[@partariothe5th]

Is it called "5 second fix" because it only lasts for 5 seconds after you've "fixed" it?

[@StCerberusEngel]

It's because it only takes five seconds to realize what a fix you're in.

[@TheyfoundRickGrimes]

😂😂😂

[@jonathancurran6851]

Pahahahahahaha

[@zantanzuken]

well theres your problem.... you're trying to cure UV resin with an LED that doesnt emit UV.

[@elephystry]

How can you tell?

[@zantanzuken]

@@elephystry well for one, its not solid in 5 seconds. For two, its working, but you'd have to hold the light over it for a long long time.... uv light is a natural occurance so even if the LED wasnt emitting any at all, the resin would still cure slightly.

[@elephystry]

@@zantanzuken Ok thanks

[@squattingnevil]

Does anyone just want a Hyper Magnet Frisbee Truck now? 😂

[@gtametro]

yes

[@sergeikulkov2048]

Yes 100% yes

[@zantanzuken]

i find it hilarious that... if all of these 'as seen on tv' commercial products were actually designed the way the designed intended... say, with actual UV resin and an ACTUAL UV light on the end... it'd ACTUALLY do all the things it claims it can do.... but instead, by the time it reaches you in this form, its been cost-cut down to near worthlessness, because they want to make money.

[@markiangooley]

My dentist has used a lot of UV-activated resins on my teeth. They work pretty well. This doesn’t mean that this version will... let’s see... Probably would have helped to have a stronger UV source (their fault), and holding that cheap weak shoddy one in place rather than moving it so much just might have helped a bit.

[@ZipplyZane]

Resin. That's the word I was trying to think of. That's what word they should have used.

[@TwistyKitty]

Yep, I work with uv resin almost daily and the uv lit source makes a huge difference. Sunlight cures it fine, but it's still going to take a while. Put a high powered light up to it and it's 5 seconds vs 30 min in sun.

[@Asmodai1234]

The dentist wears gloves and puts on special sunglasses when applying their UV light though. The UV light in this product has to be weak so not to cause eye damage. They'd probably be better off saying to just leave it out in sunlight for a couple minutes to cure.

[@mostmelon]

In half of those examples, the UV light doesn't even hit the glue. How does that work?

[@discofountain]

I love that the person squirting it on the tow cable still put the UV light on it while outside.

[@TheRenegadist]

That subtle reaction to the stamp page fail was comedically perfect.

[@JJ-Malone]

Amazing how they get away with this rubbish, False advertising is illegal.

[@mcbash]

I wonder if maybe you shouldn’t move it that much. Keep it on the same place a bit longer?

[@brianhall4182]

They were waving it around just like that in the commercial.

[@MontyDotharl]

Every time you said seal I was expecting Barry Lewis to show up and got "Bayyyyayyaa"

[@Emma.willow]

You know what you did wrong don't you? You was suppose to make the noise aswel surely that's obvious right? So can you test again with the noise 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheyfoundRickGrimes]

Lol 😂

[@richardmitchell3136]

Please do an infomercialism on the JML flippity fish! I'd love to see Basil's reaction to it 😂

[@TheyfoundRickGrimes]

Yes!! 🐟🐟🐟

[@lightningbolt7245]

I saw that at work the other day, would love to see Mike test it out. I was thinking about getting my cat one.

[@otterempire6249]

It looks like a cool sports car

[@Mitzi_DelverVRC]

So it's just... resin. "Liquid plastic compound" it's resin. Just plain old regular resin. Like the kind resin 3d printers use. Make sure you have good airflow when using it, that stuff's usually toxic to breathe near.

[@trogdor8764]

Glad to see you're ok Mike

[@PhoenixHealing]

I have a two to three hour round trip for work depending on traffic so I listen to everything from MST3K to KZbinrs. Today I was going through the old Infomercialisms and woohoo new ones came in today :-)

[@mikeydflyingtoaster]

A like for a fellow MST3K fan. I’m on their Twitch channel 23/7!

[@PhoenixHealing]

@@mikeydflyingtoaster what are some of your favorite episodes? Alien from LA and Jack Frost are two of mine 😊

[@mikeydflyingtoaster]

@@PhoenixHealing favourite of all time is The Sword and the Dragon. Best/funniest movie and it has the two funniest SOL bits too. The ‘No more slits. No more pier’ joke and the Supercalafragilisticexpiala-wacky song. I don’t think I’ve seen Jack Frost yet. Will have to look out for it!

[@PhoenixHealing]

@@mikeydflyingtoaster Mike’s deadpan delivery just gets me every time I love that bit 😁

[@sebastiangreenan1774]

Ah it seems we've found the sonic screwdriver for time travellers on a budget.

[@EtrianDinoval]

Ah, I tried one of these things. It worked on some miscellaneous broken plastic bits, so I tried it on a loose-but-stable piece of desk trimming and, my gosh, I was trying for the rest of a eight hour shift with absolutely zero progress...

[@joannegray5138]

"A child's toy"? So, no chance of getting extra mileage from my adult toy collection then? 😝😜😛😖

[@masterbrown2002]

To be fair that’s a fake Chinese version of 5 second fix, the resins probably fine but they often don’t have enough power in the UV light, the version that JML sells over here has 2 cell batteries in it and it’s really bright.

[@marcoreviews]

So glad to see you are back!

[@skelenton92]

Plastic welding *is* genuinely a thing, though it's not something I've heard of outside of scale modeling. One would use plastic cement for attaching parts to one another, which is not an adhesive, but rather something that chemically melts parts together. That being said, the bonds are still weaker than a molded piece of plastic would be.

[@jonesste84]

They ran out of inspiration for the latest sonic screwdriver didn't they

[@jaycie5021]

Uv resin needs a good amount of UV. I wouldn't be surprised if that little led was actually just purple.

[@fhagane6821]

That sound they use when fixing things is exactly like the sound a pokemon make, can't remember which one but when I do I will update this post and make a comparison

[@BrokenSet]

"We pulled this 4k lb truck" The rope is slack. The rope clearly has a downward bow, it's not towing shit.

[@BugsyFoga]

Great to see new vid , Mike.

[@WarhammerGeek]

This is UV resin which is actually a real thing that works. You can find it at craft/hobby stores. It will probably end up being more expensive than that pen but you'll also be getting a bottle and a proper UV flashlight. Sounded like it was starting to work at the end, you mentioned it was getting warm. Obviously, that little light isn't strong enough to cure the resin in 5 seconds. No idea where that number even came from.

[@VideoGameVillians]

I can't believe you didn't try pulling a car with it, although you'd probably need to use the whole tube of stuff and run the battery dead on that light to even have a chance.

[@bobbynick5358]

This is just resin with uv light curing. but most people use a uv lamp and let it sit for like a few minutes or over night, depending how much resin is use.

[@couldntmixapotnoodle]

This episode of infomercialism: Mike finally snaps and gets sick of the industry bullshit.

[@WallyTony]

Glad you did this review. I keep seeing this in my CVS.

[@Damaniel3]

UV cured resin adhesive is a thing, but even if that product worked, the UV light they provide is *way* too small to actually do the curing.

[@cyanmanta]

So it's superglue that doesnt work. Just fucking dandy.

[@Valant0324]

Great! It's been a long time since you posted a new infomercialism. Inspires me to watch some older videos

[@burtbacarach5034]

And where can i BUY this hyper magnet frisbee truck??

[@jackconey5948]

I love informercialism, its great for weekend binging 👍👍

[@Frysacidtest]

That's a bad knockoff of Bondic. Someone shattered the plastic door handle on my truck, and I can donkey punch it as hard as I can and it won't budge. It should get rock hard.

[@markc1793]

The theory behind these things is actually ok, UV resin does cure fairly quickly with just a uv light and can be used to join things together and make repairs, the problem with these pen things is that they often come with the worlds weakest uv light and claim to work far faster than is possible, even if you do use a super thin layer rather than the somewhat generous applications Mike used, and as was shown at the end of the video when Mike was shocked that the resin was getting hot, that was it starting to cure and solidify, if he'd kept the light on at even longer it would have eventually fully hardened.

[@GaiusIuliusCaesar1]

I have UV lights for curing 3d resin prints, I wonder if it would cure better with more UV light. Mike, stick a blob out on a real sunny day and see if that helps.

[@billy2rivers1]

Good to see you back pal.

[@Martynde]

yeah, you don't want to incur the wrath of Grace by messing up the table.

[@garethjackson6187]

Where can I buy one?

[@Ninjamohawk]

I really liked mine once I replaced the nearly dead batteries it came with. The light needs to be very bright and set on it without waving it around. Then it will be a very strong bond. I replaced the edge of my ds lite with it. The commercial sucks. Replace the battery and let it set still on the area. It'll work.

[@freack3333]

They must make some type of Consumer Watch show by the way of Mythbusters, where they test things out and if it does not work as advertised they sue the shit out of them for false advertising.

[@ozziescribbler]

I would watch the shit out of that!

[@PlutoniumBoss]

It's a solid idea, but you'd be better off investing in some quality uv resin and and a real uv hand light. That single LED couldn't give a tardigrade a tan.

[@rosiejl2798]

I suspect it is UV resin which is resin that sets under a UV light. It takes more than 5 seconds to set tho. If you have a high UV rating day you could put it out in the sunlight until it sets.

[@cmyanmar13]

The reason they say it's not glue is because it doesn't, in fact, glue anything.

[@strudelninja]

the kiss is FROM a rose.

[@morgainetaylor5777]

Now I want a Hyper Magnet Frisby Truck for Christmas!

[@robcandy9273]

It has nearly four stars on Amazon 😱

[@minski76]

It's not glue! It's a liquid that turns hard and attaches things to each other!

[@stitch626123]

Technically it's not a glue, it's a UV curing resin. But thats about the only part of the add that was't misleading

[@elephystry]

Are you being sarcastic?

[@daemonspudguy]

Liquid Plastic Welding Compound sounds like the name of a band.

[@pisforpearl]

So it's UV craft resin?

[@Lilly_Belle]

Yeah, UV plastic is weird. It takes a much stronger UV light to quickly set it, though. They just strapped a shitty bulb to the pen. That thing would take ages to fully affix the solution.

[@jackmcslay]

In the truck test you see the guy starting to apply it and then cuts to the finished work with something shat looks nothing like the original product looking like some form of cement instead

[@DarknessViper99]

And the rope looks slack (imo) so it looks like it ain’t even pulling anything.

[@LetsGoBruinsGA]

Now I want a hyper magnet Frisbee truck

[@bytesabre]

Use this stuff to fix small Tinywhoop drones as it was one of the few kinds of glue that would work on that kind of plastic. Only downside is the light on the end breaks really easily so I took the LED out of one and soldered it into a better torch

[@bytesabre]

Oh and don’t use it on props. Especially on larger drones as replacement props are cheap and shrapnel to the face is bad

[@Omnifas]

Did you try it with the Sound Effect?

[@mikeydflyingtoaster]

That is so obviously cheap superglue and a purple led light! I would stake my reputation on the fact that the ‘UV light’ does absolutely nothing whatsoever.

[@falconuruguay4588]

I've used this exact item, and it's a resin, and will not glue at all without the uv light. I used it to attach plexiglass watch crystals to their watch cases, and it works perfectly. I have several watches I've fixed like this, and even 3 years later, no issues at all.

[@mikeydflyingtoaster]

@@falconuruguay4588 So what do you think Mike was doing wrong?

[@RevGear99]

I see what you did wrong there. It only works if you make that wzzzzz noise when the light is on.

[@Rhodeygirl]

Do an episode on those glasses. Seriously, those are some well built readers!

[@jaynadiah5498]

Mike you really don't need instructions for this. Its fairly obvious how it works. Glad you got there in the end :p

[@thewingedpotato6463]

But can it prophylactic?

[@ozziescribbler]

I've worked at two places that use UV-set resin, lacquer or glue in production and fixing of electronics and their outer plastic shells... There were so many OSHA standards to meet with those, including eye protection from the light. Speaking of which, that dingy cheap UV bulb can not possibly be enough to cure anything, let alone in 5 seconds 🤦 It's not like sufficient UV lamps aren't commercially available in resin craft kits or in nail art stores for relatively cheap. Also, is there ANY option to replenish the resin from this thing or do you have to buy a new one when it runs out? Those chemicals can have a relatively short use-by date. So it's not like the idea for this device is bad, it's just AMAZINGLY cheap and useless version of something that has actual industrial and hobby-scale use. And lack of instructions (including safety precautions) is just insulting and irresponsible.

[@NerdySatyr]

"Liquid Plastic!" So Resin. It's UV set Resin.

[@rebel4466]

Does it work with cheese?

[@WestSideJooo]

It would probably work, as in: glue things together, with a better UV light or if you leave it in sunlight. Definitely not a 5 second fix though

[@jrjgames]

These companies should be prosecuted!

[@thend4427]

Yay i missed these

[@NerdySatyr]

I don't understand these products.... It's OBVIOUSLY not going to set in 5 seconds so why even advertise that, infomercials are already shady/untrustworthy, if you sat me down and said "Hey look, it'll probably take a solid minute to set, but once it does it'll be a strong bond" I'd believe you/be much more likely to buy your product than.. "We set it for 5 seconds then PULLED A TRUCK!!" :|

[@kdrlaci]

Good old Mike😁

[@xsnowfrightx]

Where you been, mate???? We've missed you!!! 😊

[@themusicalsandwich3063]

Oh yesss another infomercialism!!!

[@AdrianoSnorts]

I mean, they claim it fixes everything IN 5 SECONDS but err... Does it work underwater?

[@haruruben]

Why can’t you glue metal together?

[@jlouisa]

....so it's uv resin?

[@Frug4l]

You don't weld stainless steel, or rather not easily.

[@Martynde]

can it repair a broken heart?

[@supersuper-sq8ss]

Cannot bind two differant materials

[@HaraldPabisch]

But does it grate cheese?

[@H4rshi3]

*Holds upside-down so all resin flows to the bottom* "hoW dOeS iT wOrK" xD

[@DrMcFly28]

You need to do that "woosh" sound with your mouth for it to work

[@XOIIOXOIIO]

Oh yeah that 5mm uv led will really help cure it faster, when it's directly exposed to sunlight lol

[@DarekBarquero]

Hyper magnet frisbee truck?! I’ll take 3!!!

[@The_Keh27]

Maybe it's that brand. I bought a similar product at walmart called Fiberfix, using liquid and a uv light, on glasses, a cracked water pitcher, and a few other things around the house. STILL a touch seal.

[@KonElKent]

Where do I get a Hyper Magnet Frisbee Truck?!?! I will pay $50 for one!!

[@colorlesscanvas1151]

Big words for uv resin with a very bad uv light

[@FedoraMark]

5 second fix = 13 minute review video

[@K0nna13]

But can it glue cheese?

[@seanmatyas3938]

But does it glue cheese?