Glue - an indispensable thing in the household or creativity. However, it happens that it is not at hand when it is very needed, or it ends in the midst of work. What if there is no time to run to the store? How can I replace the glue?
Simple and affordable alternatives to shop glue
The easiest option is to weld a paste. It is perfect for wallpaper or paper art. Prepare it from ordinary flour or starch. These ingredients can be found in the kitchen of any hostess. The advantage of this glue is safety. This is especially important if young children are engaged in creativity.
To get a high-quality adhesive solution, you must:
- take flour or starch at the rate of 6 tablespoons per liter of water;
- carefully place dry matter in cool water;
- start heating it, until the mixture begins to resemble a thick jelly in consistency.
Another natural product that is harmless to humans is casein glue. You can also cook it from what is in almost any refrigerator. To do this, you need milk and nine percent vinegar, or cottage cheese, soda and water.
- In the first case, you need to warm up 500 milliliters of milk and pour in 3 tablespoons of vinegar, mix well. As a result of a chemical reaction, casein will precipitate.
- In the case of cottage cheese, a pound of this product should be stirred in half a liter of water, add 1 tablespoon of soda, mix thoroughly and leave to stand for about half an hour. The result will be the same as in the first case - casein will precipitate.
After this, casein must be filtered with gauze and a sieve, as it should be wrung out, patted with a dry cloth or paper towel. The resulting lump needs to dry. The dried casein is ground in a coffee grinder, poured with water in a ratio of 1: 2 and allowed to infuse for half an hour. Such a mixture is perfect for gluing wood, ceramics, polystyrene, plastic or fabric.
Replacing PVA glue
One of the most popular types of glue is polyvinyl acetate, so it would be unfair not to indicate how PVA glue can be replaced.
An alternative composition to it can be made at home from water, flour, alcohol, photographic gelatin and glycerin:
- To do this, 2.5 grams of gelatin should be infused in 500 milliliters of water for about 24 hours.
- Then add flour there and heat the liquid, stirring constantly, until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
- When the mixture cools down, it is necessary to pour 10 milliliters of alcohol into it and put 2 grams of glycerin.
Glue for centuries
The issue of adhesive reliability is sometimes an issue, especially when it comes to repairing an inflatable boat or swimming mattress. What glue can replace the finished product in this case? The answer lies on the surface: what we stick from is what we do. To patch a hole in a rubber boat, you need to prepare a rubber glue :
- To do this, the old unusable bicycle chamber needs to be cut finely and finely.
- Put in a container and pour solvent 647.
- Close the container with a lid and leave for several days until the rubber is completely dissolved. Instead of the specified solvent, gasoline or acetone can also be used.
Speaking about how you can replace the glue at home, you can not help but mention the universal version of this product, which is suitable for almost any surface.
To prepare it, in the solvent 647 already known to the reader, it is necessary to gradually add foam and stir it until the mixture becomes thick enough. If you need to glue cardboard, paper or wood, it is quite suitable. If you need a stronger version of the glue, then in the resulting mixture you need to add nitro-paint, soda, as well as wood and metal filings: 2 tablespoons per 100 milliliters of glue.
Food grade glue
It also happens that you need to glue materials with something non-toxic. For example, when it comes to decoupage Easter eggs, which will then be eaten. What can replace the glue in this case? Here, in addition to the paste mentioned above, sugar glue is perfect.
In this case, a glass of water should be put on fire, add 250 g of sugar there and cook, stirring, until the liquid begins to thicken to a viscous state. Raw egg white will also perfectly fix paper elements on the eggshell.
Thus, there are a great many options for how to replace the glue at home. It is only necessary to choose the right composition based on the characteristics of the materials to be bonded.