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HILARIOUS (and this might be a few commercials pieced together):


Stay with it... it just keeps going and going (as only an internet ad can do).
 
I bet it would fix broken gears in a rib side case....
 
My apologies up front- don't want to offend anyone. I wonder the cost of a roll of tape vs a bottle of little blue pills?
Sorry Basil; it seemed funny at the time to my loving wife.
 
Glad he took one for the team. Marrying that ugly woman to take her out of circulation.
 
GregW said:
Glad he took one for the team. Marrying that ugly woman to take her out of circulation.
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Well really, they're saving two other people.
 
Turns out there is an amusing "making of" the commercial:

 
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WOT!:marrying that ugly woman to take her out of circulation.

She ain't still circulatin??-----LOL
 
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And pity the poor fan! LOLOLOL

Actually, it looks like good stuff!
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The technology has been around for a while__but please note, I have zero experience/exposure to any product named FiberFix__and did you notice him soaking the roll in water?

Well over a decade and a half ago (>15 yrs), while doing instrumentation work at a fresh water-treatment plant in San Antonio__remember The Alamo!__I came across a similar product, and was given several rolls that looked/acted just like that stuff, except they were all white in color. Typically 4" wide rolls of a loosely woven gauze-like material impregnated with a water-activated resin.

Soak the roll for X-number of minutes, after removing it from a sealed foil package, and then start wrapping it around the broken or leaking pipe, crisscrossing and smoothing air bubbles out as you go. Each roll was a one-time use product, and they weren't tremendously long (3'? 6/?? 12'???) but were plenty__too much even__for any of the times I used it.

In just a few minutes, chemical reaction raises the temperature to something the other side of too hot to touch; I did actually put an IR temp gun on a repair once, but don't even remember the value enough to make up a good lie (120*F? 180*F??). Once cured, the resin sets hard as a rock!

We were doing spot repairs to some PVC and polypropylene pipes/tubes while they were still dripping__a leak under any significant pressure would be hard (as the resin would get washed out) but every repair held strong and dry.

With advancing technology in high strength fibers and resins, I don't doubt the products ability to do what's shown in the video__assuming an acceptable QC production facility__regardless of how tongue in the cheek and entertaining as it was!

Thanks for posting that, I had several good laughs!
 
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