Lego is most people’s all time favorite toy right? When we saw Adrian in New York’s and Mike in Utah’s hair for lego men, we got inspired!

Take note: Unlike LEGO, sugru isn’t a toy. While it’s still soft and squidgy, sugru is for grownups, not kids, so keep it away from those little guys. Once sugru has had time to cure, it’s safe for everyone.

There are so many awesome things you can do by combining the two, this is just the beginning.

Here’s the first of many:
Add LEGO bricks to your monitor and your stuff to keep them neat and tidy!

Keep an eye on gurus and instructables for lots of lego related how-to’s coming v soon…

After years of service, the plastic coating on dishwasher racks are prone to wear and the metal frame rusts. It’s only a matter of time before they break and become unusable.
Replacing these parts can be expensive and often the components are no longer available, which means that you need to buy a new appliance! That’s crazy.

If this is happening to your dishwasher, it’s super easy to repair.

If you’re new to sugru, we’ve put a full step-by-step guide on Instructables to help you fix it.
Thanks to Franklin in Germany for the great photos of his dishwasher!

See what we did there?

Till now you’ve been mainly sending us your hacks and repairs by email. We thought it was about time that we got out of the way and everyone got to meet each other more directly. So we built our new community site, gurus.

I’ve been in touch with lots of you over the last 2 years, so I can tell you – you’re a pretty awesome bunch! You should meet!

gurus is now the very best place to post / upload your hacks, or to ask for tips and advice on your sugru project – it’s basically a one stop shop for everything sugru / hacking / repairing related. Browse around, there are already lots of fantastic hacks and repairs and sugru gurus on there already such as a step by step on how to repair a rip in a suitcase and a great idea for insulating long screwdrivers.

We’re pretty psyched about this so we’re launching a new monthly contest now too. As well as Hack of the Month, we’ll also now have a Guru of the Month award too. The best post, comments and interactions from a guru that month will get 5 packs of sugru and a lovely Hack Things Better t-shirt, and we’ll announce the winner in our monthly community email update.

Looking forward to meeting you there. And, more importantly, you guys meeting each other!

A few of you have sent us images of jazzed up toe caps on their Converse, so we got inspired to try it too!

We bought these shoes in a charity shop for £1.50 !!!! a quick hack later and they look super cute!

sugru properties that make this hack possible:

- bonds to the rubber used in converse
- is waterproof so will be fine in the rain and even a washing machine
- is flexible so will bend with your shoes
- can be mixed to to create custom colours

Use leftovers for other little jobs like making your zippers easier to pull

We’ve made a full step-by-step instructable for this project to show you how to get the best looking results – everyone will wonder where you got that really unusual colourway.

Bike lights are all pretty standard; plastic and ugly.
So we set ourselves the challenge to make them beautiful, and stained glass came to mind!

It turned out amazing so we made a step-by-step Instructable so you can easily make your own.

sugru properties that help in this project:
● it bonds very well to glass and metal
● it has very good dampening properties so helps to protect the glass when cycling around
● it’s waterproof
● it’s easy to use

*You don’t need to buy stained glass for this project, we asked the nice people at a local stained glass workshop if we could have some of their off-cuts. We just collected a bunch of glass from their bin for free.

It’s incredibly satisfying to watch a towel fly across the kitchen and snap onto the fridge door.
We couldn’t resist taking them outdoors though!

Did you know that sugru:
● bonds to fabrics
● is flexible when cured
● is waterproof so you never have to remove the magnet as sugru will protect it
● is washing machine proof so will not wash off

We’ve made a full step-by-step instructable to show you how to do this project – it’s super easy and we hope you’ll try it!

This project was inspired by quarterstone’s very awesome magnetised kitchen towel on instructables, we fell in love with his idea but also thought that sugru could make it a little bit better by solving the waterproofing and washing issue.

This is a friends 1987 2.5L Porsche 944 Turbo. A beautiful car, however, the previous owner had mounted a mobile phone holder to the dash and when he removed it, left a series of prominent holes in the leather trim.

Always up for a challenge, James offered to repair the holes using sugru – and he’s uploaded a step-by-step on Instructables – so if you have this problem, go check it out.

The crucial part in this case was colour matching. Use your 7 Steps Booklet to figure out the closest match and then tweak yourself. In this case he used green, orange, black and white and achieved a surprisingly good match.

See the full step-by-step on Instructables, along with a bunch of other nice car related repairs including repairing a key fob, mounting an aeriel and protecting your car from scratches.

Well it had to be taken apart, we needed the drill!
People often ask, if I put sugru on my phone / expensive camera / fancy bike, can I take it off again if I need to?
The answer is – in most cases – yes.
Here’s how.

The best method for removing sugru (should you ever need to) is to cut it off with a sharp knife, then remove any residue with your nail, and any remaining residue with a rough cloth or tissue. Bear in mind – sugru is removable from non-porous surfaces – but on unvarnished wood or unglazed ceramics it’s likely to leave a stain. And it won’t come off fabrics.

Music is by the awesome Four tet again but played backwards this time.

Laptop power chargers and USB cables always break at the same point and once they do, it’s not long before they stop working altogether.

Here’s how to repair this problem quickly and very easily using sugru.

1. Shape your sugru into a flat sausage roughly 40mm in length.

2. Position the flat sausage of sugru underneath the damaged cable and up against the power block. Wrap the sugru around the cable.

3. Use masking tape to hang the cable from a table, Gently rub your fingers up and down the sugru until it is smooth.

Leave the cable to cure overnight, you will be able to use it in the morning and after 24 hours it’ll be strong, rubbery and very protective – and it’ll stand up to much more abuse – watch the video to see what it’s like.

In case it’s helpful, we’ve put more detail on this ‘how-to’ on instructables.

As lots of you know, we’re working hard in the labs to extend the shelf life of sugru, and the good news is that we’re making progress. In the meantime, we now have a tip that may be useful.
We always guarantee that your sugru will have a minimum of 6 month shelf life after purchase, and most of you use it up well within this time. However for those of you who don’t, we now have data to show that if sugru is kept at low temperatures, it can help to extend the shelf life considerably. If you keep your sugru in the fridge, it can extend the shelf life by up to a further 6 months. (And if you live in a hot climate, above the recommended storage temperature of 21°C/70°F, this is a tip that will help you too.)