BostikBlu-tack Original Mastic Putty Adhesive Non-Toxic Blue 60g Ref 801103

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While I can recall people using this to mount posters on their walls 30 years ago in college, I really only discovered it myself about 10 years ago. I've yet to find a surface that it didn't stick to or left a permanent mark on. If it doesn't stick sufficiently well, I knead it a bit and use more. Here are some of the uses I've come up with:Holding small parts together for gluingMaking a instant phone stand on my airplane tray tableBlocking light from a LED on a TV in a hotel roomHolding parts together for solderingSealing a leaky rain barrelPreventing a nail from slipping into drywall (hanging a clock)Cushioning the bottom corners of framed pictures to the wallHolding my headphone wire to my deskSecuring my cellphone charger wire to the nightstandFidget-type toy at my desk when I'm on the phoneBlocking open the leg out on an easel so it doesn't closeHiding a spare key at my deskLowering the volume on a buzzerRouting phone charger wires in my leased carSealing a hole in the roof of a birdhousePreventing silverware trays in a drawer from slidingAnd of course, holding posters to wallsthe other 900+ I'll have to type in some other time...:)

This is some amazing stuff! I don't use it as an adhesive but as a kneaded eraser for my drawing. I knead it & stretch & twist it till it is soft & pliable, then form it to the shape I need. Sometimes a teardrop, ball, a flattened teardrop. or I will pinch a thin edge, next I press it to the graphite lifting out the amount necessary creating the lightened effect I am going for. It works much better that the kneaded erasers available at any of the local art stores. I have also used it as a putty to hold delicate items in place in my display cabinet, so it is very effective for it's intended purpose, I just by far love it as a drawing tool. I keep a separate piece to use for colored pencil or watercolor. You will want to be sure that the watercolor is completely dry before you try lifting any color out & I have never tried to use it with oil pastels or paints & I really wouldn't recommend it for this. My preferred use is for graphite. I have found that I am able to lift anywhere from just a shade or two, all the way back to white and when the piece becomes dirty looking you simply stretch & knead, pulling & reballing it back to its original color making it good as new! I have had pieces for as long as 10 years and this product still looks as good as the first time I had used it.

So I bought this largely because this is the one most recommended for certain audio-oriented applications (it makes a great vibration/distortion absorbing material.) It's less tacky and sticky compared to 3M's own (darker) blue putty even after preparing it (you're supposed to stretch and smush it several times to get it to soften up and get a bit more tacky before use) so doesn't stick or hold as well. However, 3M's own putty does dry out and harden after a while. Only time will tell if this one beats it at that. By my initial experience I would say that this is generally not as good of a choice for stuff like non-damaging wall hangings or that sort of thing, but it entirely depends on what you're buying it for (and if this one doesn't dry out then it will be better in that respect at least.)

I use this as earplugs, as I live in NYC and so am bombarded by alarms, sirens, drunken idiots in the streets, barking dogs, and so on. I became allergic to earplugs made of EVERYTHING (even hypoallergenic ones!), and saw someone mention he uses this for earplugs. Son of a gun: it totally works! I make a cone-shaped blob, push it into my ear, and then use the end of a pen to push it in a bit further. NB: Do NOT make a long, pointy tip like I did the first time: I ended up in an urgent care clinic begging for someone to remove the stuff from my eardrums. This was NOT fun (it was scary as hell!), so now I'm careful to make blunt cone shapes.I also use it to hold up polymer clay items in the oven which are in danger of tipping over, holding things still which need not to move (e.g., antennas), and even in the failing seal on my fridge. If you can think of a use for it, it'll work. It's like duct tape: it does pretty much anything you need it to!

Have used this stuff in decades. Kind of fun to play with. Unfortunately, it didn't work for the purpose I bought it for. Have an old Phaser 7300DN printer with this god-awful magnetic/laser system for telling whether or not toner cartridges are in place and have sufficient toner. Trying to spare you the details, the magnets are supposed to lift these small levers so that a laser beam can pass by. Others have used Bostik on the inside of the printer lid to fix this (hold to levers out of the beam). I tried from the inside and the first little lever I tried broke - had no idea they were so flimsy.Anyway . . . Now I' ve got two packs of Blu Tack for other projects - like mounting some of my best fractal printouts on the wall.

Not as sticky as I hoped it would be. I'm trying to find a good wall tac like the one I used to buy called Stay-Putty but i can't find it anywhere anymore, not even on amazon. This one is not as good as Stay Putty but better than some others I've tried.

I use this to "glue" down anything breakable such as lamps, vases and other breakables. Before I discovered blu tack many lamps, plant pots, vases and precious items were broken. My house was void of breakables. But this works so perfectly perfect that now I can enjoy all my precious breakables and love my cats too. I recently moved across country and (of course) took my cats with me in the car. They had nice big roomy crates and I used blu tack to hold their food and water in place so it would not spill while driving.