Make precise rubber parts by turning sugru on a drill
Hack of the Month!
The winner this month is to Joshua in North Carolina for not only hacking his car better but showing us all a beautiful technique for forming precise sugru parts.
"With my satellite antenna taken apart by a rampant car wash and us not using satellite radio anyway, I replaced the bare antenna with a sugru covered screw. I placed the screw in a drill, applied sugru, and spun it while forming with soap covered fingers, as if on a potter's wheel. I also used the turning drill to carve a concave shape for the base with an exacto knife. It was amazing! I've posted a full step by step on instructables."
Awesome - congrats Joshua! 5 packs of sugru and a Hack Things Better t-shirt will be winging their way to you very soon.
For a chance to win Hack of the Month yourself, just get some sugru , hack some stuff and send us some photos for a chance to win!
Other peoples' comments
I like it... very smart and useful for making those hard to do parts. Perhaps you could use a Dremel for other parts at high speeds.
I like it... very smart and useful for making those hard to do parts. Perhaps you could use a Dremel for other parts at high speeds.
Oh WOW... beyond cool! This is astoundingly useful, and like many innovations so elegantly simple and obvious once it is pointed out! Well done.