Blu Tack - The Original re-usable adhesive

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Avoid ugly Sat Nav suckers and clips

Avoid having a big rubber sucker on your windscreen, using magic Blu-Tack to hold the unit in place

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Ear plugs

I have found that, if you mix a bit of Plasticine with some blutac, you get excellent ear plug material.

Without the plastercine it is a bit hard, adn makes the ears sore.

I don’t suppose that you’d publicize this use, due to health and safety, but it would be good if you could go into official production of this sort of material, as the earplugs on the market, that I have tried, haven’t been as good.

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In the car

I find it useful for sticking notes on my windscreen and dashboard

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Make models

choose what you want to make then mould it out of blu tack

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Sealing low-pressure water leaks

Press Blu-Tack (or use a roller) to make thin sheets (1 mm thick or less) and use it to seal low-pressure water leaks. Just cover over the crack when the surface is dry. There’s no need to fill the crack. I have used it successfully to seal a crack in the bottom of an acrylic bath and a crack in the external part of a kitchen sink waste pipe.

Creative

I was looking for dampening rings for my drum kit today but being the sort of guy who likes to do-it-himself (or at least keep some money in his pocket) I looked around the room and saw half a packet of blu-tack lying on my chest of drawers.

I squished a Malteser sized blob onto one of my toms and the results were quite impressive :D I actually got a nicer sound than I get using the dampening rings! I get a really nice pop out of my snare drum when I use this too!

I think I’ve stumbled onto a little miracle here :P drummers you heard it here first! ;)

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Keyboard

The pure white keyboard of the Macintosh - they really are better, you know - can stay as pure and clean as a pure and clean thing if you pick up all the gunk you drop between the keys with a sliver of Blu-Tack. Or possibly what we’re seeing here is a rare blue butterfly being prevented from typing something.

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Brooch

Now isn’t this pretty? You could pay £££s in major stores (as they say on the shopping channels, ha ha) for this, but a blob of Blu-tack, a few minutes and, er, an eye, are all you need to make your own.

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Picture

Picture frame just won’t hang straight? A hidden blob of Blu-Tack will quickly stop it swinging. Then you can tell your neighbours you were good enough at DIY to hang it straight. The Blu-Tack will be our little secret. For now…

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Candlestick

You know how it is: you have a fine 17th century Italian candlestick and the last thing you want is for the candle to become unbalanced, fall off and knock it over. A blob of Blu-Tack and all’s well. Well, until it burns right down and sets fire to your wooden candlestick. We mean, who makes a candlestick out of wood?

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Nose Guard

You’ve seen the discreet ear trumpet; you have read (see the blog) about Blu-Tack as a Surfer’s Ear preventative; why should the nose be left out? Stuck in a sunny climate without sun-cream? Protect that delicate nasal surface with a sun-screen flattened out of Blu-Tack! Quick! Cheap! Versatile - works for male and female noses!

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Earring

Tiffany is already bidding for the rights to manufacture this but we said no. This Blu-Tack and shiny-bits earring design must remain exclusive to us. That’s Tiffany Smith of Rochdale, by the way, not the famous jeweller. Oh, and can real earrings be changed by sticking new bits on them? NO. So ours are obviously better.

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Note

The message says it all: if you need to buy new stuff - more Blu-Tack, perhaps - stick a handy note up with a blob of Blu-Tack. Of course if you really do need more Blu-Tack, you won’t have any to stick it up with. But this tip works for virtually anything else.