I remember when OxiClean came out and my grandmother said yeah it’s just hydrogen peroxide I’ve known about that since the twenties. She also noted it’s limitation’s about cleaning grease stains.
OxiClean is something like 60% hydrogen peroxide, and the rest is sodium carbonate, aka washing soda. The stuff you put on cuts is about 3%, and I think the stuff for bleaching hair is about 10%. Fortunately the washing soda stabilizes the hydrogen peroxide, otherwise you'd have something extremely hazardous to handle. For reference, the rocket jetpack the Air Force developed in the sixties (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Rocket_Belt?wprov=sfla1) was powered by, I think, 70% hydrogen peroxide which decomposed when it hit a catalytic screen in the nozzle. A lot of spacecraft have little attitude control thrusters that use the same principle: concentrated hydrogen peroxide hitting a metal screen with a catalyst. The washing soda is alkaline and should saponify greases and fats from food, etc, but not mineral oils and greases..
My last project using flex seal was just yesterday. My wife wanted me to fix a leak in the roof. After three months of her telling me to fix it I finally used flex seal on her mouth! My roof still leaks but it's so quiet here..... Oh, the police want me to talk to them... Look forward to your next video
Flex seal wouldn’t seal a gutter for me. My favorite experience with flex seal was when I was in the Plubing supply house and the guy in front of me has the whole continuous waste and trap off his double sink and it has duct tape and flex seal sprayed all over it. The guy says “I got a little rotten pipe right there.” The counter man throws a box containing the whole kit on the counter and says “15 bucks.” The guy say “No I only want that one pipe right there.” So the counter man opens the box, pulls out the pipe, lays it on the counter and says, 15 bucks. The guy gets all PO’d and says “now you are trying to rip me off.” The counter man says, Don’t worry, when you come back after you can’t get that crap apart and cleaned up, I’m going to give you the rest of the box free, you just don’t know you need it yet!”
Why would he cheap out like that? He probably spent more money and time putting bandaids things than fixing them. I have a neighbor like that. He keeps asking me if I have any JB weld. There's a reason you never see that stuff used in a mechanic shop.
@@ColinTimmins The guy I bought my house from! Everything he did skipped simple, cheap and obvious things which mean problems develop requiring the entire job to be redone. And a do over is never simple or cheap.
I used flex tape to seal a leaky sunroof on my explorer 2/3 years ago, and it's still holding strong. prep is key for sure, you gotta get everything CLEAN!
I used it to fix cracks and tears in my old Miata rag top, because I just didn't have the money/time to replace it. $12 for a can versus $400 for a new top. Lasted years before I gave the car away to one of my kids (a mechanic).
A goober I know used some to "seal" several holes in an old aluminum Jon boat a year or two ago. It worked very well for about a year (the boat, under his ownership, was stored in a garage) but he was a lucky duck, so to speak, to be a good, strong swimmer when two of the bigger holes "blew out" while he was fishing in the middle of a large farm pond on his property. The boat WAS recovered....Thanks to two swimming and diving fool teenage sons and a Ford farm tractor equipped with a front mounted winch and a lot of cable....He has since had the old boat professionally repaired with aluminum patches and uses it for fishing in his ponds and a couple of local lakes.
I used the black spray on my outside foundation walls. Looked good at first. Within a year, the black faded to a dirty whiteish chalky look and by year 2 it was pretty much all peeled off.
Story reminds me of Simple Green. My dad worked in the chrome wheel business. I remember as a kid going to Hacienda Heights to see a guy that made a chemical in his garage called Nicklebright. It was blue in color. His name was Joe Fabrizio. Years later one of his sons did a infomercial with Simple Green. He was on a tarmac and actually took a drink to show how safe it was.
The key is easy: Halfway good products, a charming and funny presenter, and a company that understand memes and uses them (and not being pissed of by them).
OK i'm admitting to being naive here... Straight evil because it is an improper repair, or does not work, or works so good that it puts you out of work?
Bought a gallon of Henry "rubberized wet patch" (mastic/tar) at lowes for $40. A day later I saw that the same stuff, but different brand is in walmart at $15.00 a gallon. Pays to shop around.
Used the gorilla version of flex tape because lowes had it at the same price but with twice the amount. Gorilla was a little stiffer, not as pliable, but seemed to be a little more aggressive adhering to objects. The end result was the same for both products. Id pick whichever is cheaper every time
I have used the spray, glue, roll on and tape. Used the spray as a base layer paint for a scooter. The glue I used on my boat for the bilge. The roll on I used for weather proofing the chicken coop roof.
I used flex seal on my metal roof after a tree fell on it an punctured tiny holes my son didn't notice and seal with silicone. I'm very thankful for it. Planning to use it to cover all my roof this year. 2 years ago I used it around the vent pipe for the sewer...I had rain coming down into my home. Not any more! I'll check it each year to make sure it hasn't shrunk or cracked...but it sealed my rusted roof portion so nicely. 2 gallons and the end of my house has no more leaks, it looks lovely, and the snow slid right off this winter. I am pleased with the gallons of it. The tape? Not so much! I used it on my ancient motor home. It peeled off and did not hold. Not so good a product, in my humble opinion. The spray? I used it on the roof of my motor home. It bubbled up, left gaps. I did not care for it at all. I'll stick with the liquid type used on my home roof. I put it over the spray style and sealed the roof of the motor home nicely. It's worth the money, in my humble opinion. Blessings!
Maybe Chia Pet could team up with flex seal and you could paste your head with the crap and go take a shower to get it wet. People could watch your hair grow right in front of them.
I watch a lot of Project Farm and they test items like this. If anyone out there needs some advice, Todd is your man of what's good out there and what's a waste of money and time.
I’m a chemist in industry. This is a brand with many reworked ideas, but the core product appears to be an SEBS rubber lacquer. Not new at all, but with today’s regulations on solvents the aerosol version of many of these products stand out. Comparable water-based products need good conditions to cure. 25 years ago local paint stores had similar products in cans and a clerk who worked with them. Today’s is big box, TV and videos and they serve a purpose. If you have a big job there are usually commercial analogs that often much better, but finding them is hard. Take Gorilla tape, it’s good. But in roofing we have something called eterna-bond that’s much more aggressive. Both have there place and I have both in my RV tool bag.commercial coatings are not too different from Flex Seal in a can and more solids and will last longer. I think they go back to 50’s.
I added a metal roof to my patio. Used the roll on flex seal to seal the screws through the metal. It's been there 4 years with no runs, drips, or errors. Used 4 inch flex tape to seal a top radiator hose on my 94 Chevy pickup. Got me home 180 miles in the middle of the night when nothing was open. I'll keep using their products whenever I have a place for it..
You said it right, use a product made specifically for the application. Captaining is serious business and boats can’t afford a product unproven to endure. I’ve used this seen on TV product and there’s good reason the marketing was needed to push this non-specialized, non-leading, non-cost effective, over-hyped product bought by the millions who still haven’t found the right way to fix their leaks. As a boat and RV owner you are part of a crowd known for over spending due to inconvenient circumstances with luxury adventures. If they did the same level of marketing that 3M does for their similar but specialized and truly innovative quality products Flex would likely not sell much based on product reputation and industry word of mouth alone. Especially at what is it now $20+ a pint? Btw, your videos, the bear and your well scoped sound and seasoned research and opinions are enlightening, many thanks.
Another product that is the same just how it’s marketed. Liquid electrical tape. It can be used to cover the wire connections and it will peel off if you need to get to that connection in the future. It works good, I’ve switched to using it.
Used Flex Seal Spray on some cracks in the bottom of a plastic tub fixture. Used marking pens to match the color of the tub. Taped off the area around the cracks. Multiple levels of spray. Worked. Used Clear. That was over three years ago. Tends to turn dark after time. Time to replace or paint. Used the Flex Seal Paste. Difficult to mold and keeps the shape as soon as it hits the surface. The containers are at least twice as large as volume. Spray cooking spray on a shovel so snow does not stick.
So after falling and breaking my leg in the bathroom, I purchased the sandpaper tapes with built-in glow strips. After a full winter night, at 5 in the morning, you can still see the following floor. I probably wouldn't do a spray on, but glow products done right last a long time. I would certainly consider it for an outside stair of there wasn't good lighting.
I used flex seal liquid on a cracking lawn mower seat... Actually works great... But it adhered well to the foam under the vinyl but it did come of where it was stuck to vinyl instead of the foam. So it would probably be better if the vinyl was removed entirely.
I used this stuff to build a "catbox room" in my garage with a doggy door from the house. makes life easier with cleaning and keeps the house from having any cat box odor. works great for that.
I have a 35 year old house with hardboard siding.The lower boards started looking not good. Cleaned them up, let dry good, got the spray, did two medium treatments over a week and repainted. After two years it looks like new.
@@darrellwolf5638 I used it in a commercial application and in my case, it sped up the shoveling and snowblowers especially, by them not having clogged chutes and shovels. It only got applied to a plow if that storm had particularly sticky snow. It does make a difference over 19+ hours of service. 👍
Flex Seal works - for a while. Example: join together salvaged sections of gutter, spray the joints; block an unwanted downspout opening in an end piece with a tuna can lid and a quick spray. Fast forward a couple of years, and it is getting brittle and failing, even in our soggy sun starved Pacific NorthWET. Rustoleum sells their own version; not sure how many others.
Comparing it to "duck tape" (not duct tape) is exactly right. It's a temp fix, but really expensive if you add it all up for medium to large jobs. It's like rebuilding an engine with nothing but an adjustable wrench. It "can" be done, but the end result is a lot better when you use the RIGHT tools for the job. If a tool or product does Everything....... it does everything half-arsed.
Back in the early 2000s I had a pickup on my FedEx route of something called "Blue Fire" it was literally salt rock with blue food coloring in it to melt snow. Suckers are born everyday!
I've removed chunks of frame from 10 year old pickups and that undercoat or zbart will hold water in and rot everything. That said I know undercoating will hold water so i never paid this product any mind
@@workingcountry1776 I'm a lifelong air-cooled VW enthusiast, and I can say with 100% conviction that every example I've found that was once undercoated or "Ziebarted" was a complete rotted out shitbox. Any that were left in factory paint were many times better off. early 2000's I was buying a TDI "New Beetle" and I walked away from several dealers that applied their own undercoating to the cars before they were sold. Said they wouldn't honor the corrosion warranty if I didn't agree to it. Well then, BYE!
Brian Wittling best under coating kerosene and motor oil put in a garden sprayer and coat underneath occasionally....but keeping clean during winter especially is important I spend more time on the under carriage then the out side during the winter that’s where rust starts at.
A good neighbor of mine had a swimming pool filter that had a cracked filter housing. She watched these flex seal commercials and bought some and asked me to apply it. I applied it to the inside of the filter housing exactly as recommended, waited the times for curing etc,. It leaked just as bad as it did before. I finally told her to get me a tube of regular silicone sealant and fixed it for a third of the price she spent for this product!
I used the black flex seal in a shower mixer valve replaced in shower that was tiled. Had to remove tile and backer board to get to the broken valve. I staggered the tile and backer layers so that water has no direct penetration. I sprayed the flex seal over the backer board patch using fiberglass reinforcement tape. Let it set up over the weekend, came back and finished the tile patch around the valve. Told my customer to let my seal job stand for 1 week before using the shower. 5 years later and still no leaks
I haven't tried any of the flex products. I tend to do my repairs with the correct materials so I don't have to come back in a couple months and fix a patch job.
Phil is following in the footsteps of Billy Maze, probably the greatest pitchman of our generation. Billy was part owner of that Oxiclean stuff he was always pitching, and it sold like crazy. Eventually they sold the entire brand for hundreds of millions and it was that valuable because Billy had pitched it so well and made it a household name. Phil has done the same with his product and now it's everywhere. I've seen it for sale at convenience stores, grocery stores, auto parts stores, everywhere. It would not stay in those places if it didn't sell. All credit to Phil for that. I hope he's made a fortune off it. RIP Billy Maze.
We used the liquid flex seal to fix a leaky baptismal that had not been used for 27 years. We lightly sanded it, cleaned it, then applied 2 coats. That was 2 1/2 years ago and the once leaky baptismal (it had many large leaks and some small leaks) now works great! I would highly recommend the liquid flex seal. I have since used the spray can flex seal to fix some drips in our gutter before selling the home last summer.
I thought you were going to slam the Flex products. Glad you didn’t. I used Flex Seal to fill the cracks in my house’s plaster before it was painted. That was several “all season” years ago. I’ve had no problems, no degradation, no reopening of the cracks. The stuff works.
One of the few things of theirs I think is good, is the tape, used under windows flanges on an RV. Remove the bolts, tape, replace the window. Never had a leak again. I understand it is not as good for roof repair, but for a window, where the water doesn't pool on it, and the sun doesn't get underneath to wear it out, I think it is ok. You just have to pick your battles with this stuff. I had some bolt holes that were allowing water and ants to enter as well. The caulk filled that in just fine as well. I think the trick here is to use it where UV wont break it down as much.
I worked at a factory that did aerosols, flex seal was one of the products. There's 2 ingredients in it: car undercoat and mineral spirits. The main ingredient, of course, being the undercoat. Useless information I assume, but it's not a complex formula by any means.
You have to try Chemlink sealant. We started selling this where I work. It is the toughest caulk I have ever seen. A form also comes in a roof pitch pocket version that comes in a bag that can be poured into a form. I'm not affiliated but truly impressed. It's inexpensive also. Keep up the great videos. Thanks, Tim
Bear since COVID I went from being a cook to the custodial/janitorial service and the “deformanatzor” might be something we use on carpet cleaning, is an “afterthought” product it’s really to remove lazy over foam! Anyways I feel that that stuff is like a super strong Downy fabric softener.
Oh yeah I also sprayed the flex seal inside my tile saws water pan. Works great! I think that all the fails that I have read are more likely lack of preparation (and then of course maintenance) .I have great results. Again prepping is first priority. Dry time is second. And as for the tray of my tile saw I rinse out at the end of each work day. Had to replace the tray on my first saw after two years because it rusted through. I neglected the daily maintenance and paid for it. Now my trays are sealed and maintained
Not FlexSeal but a product that seem to be used for other than intended purposes is DIY roll on pickup truck bedliner. I did my back stairs in it and am quite pleased with the result. It goes on black and then I painted it with a specific patio paint. It has made it so far through the first winter with no deterioration. The can though actually states this as a suggested use.
All the Flex Seal products are fairly good, but the prices are really exorbitant. I mean, for what it cost to tape that boat back together, or cover that screen-hulled boat, you could have bought a nice new boat!
Red I tried a couple cans of that spray type Flex Seal and I honestly have to say "Don't waste your money on it!"!!!! It doesn't work, did absolutely NOTHING and didn't seal what I needed to stop leaking!! I built an outdoor storage bench which is hard enough to "seal up" and used Flex Seal on the lid to the bench!! It did absolutely NOTHING AT ALL!! A few months ago I rebuilt the lid for the same bench and I THIS TIME used Tite Bond III on it to glue the wood slates into one giant piece of wood!!! THAT seemed to fix the problem I was having!!! Save your money Flex Seal is worthless!!!
Say what you want the stuff is amazing. Ive used flex seal in situations i had no faith in it working but it far surpassed any expectations i had. The plastidip sucks. You scratch it off with your finger nail. Ive used the flex seal spray. The flex shot. The paste and the canned liquid. All of them have been great. Again the plasti dip says to use on you tool handles it rubs off when you handle the tools. The rustoleum flex spray works well. The key to all of these products are in the preparation. The tape works great on roof patches or will close most any opening to keep water or air out. The flex shot is great because its tougher than caulk. The flex glue actually glued my memory foam flip flops together. The fabric had ripped out of the souls. The souls split down the center where the straps tucked under and were thermally glued. I didnt think it would fix it but ive been wearing them for 8 months since. Ive been trying all kinds of fixes with this stuff and as high as the price is ive had no complaints due to it failing.
3M makes a waterproof caulk/sealant that has NO silicone. It will NOT grow mold ever. It is a one step polyurethane base that is absolutely awesome. We used it on exterior door thresh holds, and 6 years later we decided to replace the door, casing and all. Using a 4 ft. pry bar, it actually broke concrete loose instead of releasing from this caulk, and the remainder we had to cut repeatedly with a razor knife. It is also sea worthy. If you need to smooth it, water is no good and you need lacquer thinner. It is dry to the touch after 24 hrs. but takes 7 days to fully cure. I have only ever seen it in white, and I know H.D. carries it but don't know if it is available at Lowes.
I caution users of Flex Seal in a spray can if you need the joint to flex. I used about 15 spray cans to seal a fiberglass attic on a box van and the fiberglass roof. The surface was prepared properly and the Flex Seal was applied in thin coats allowing for full cure between coats. The Flex Seal in my experience adheres well and is easy to apply but it cracks. Any place that has joint movement I would not use Flex Seal. I would suggest using an appropriate silicone. This was my experience with Flex Seal and it is for the spray can only. I do not know if their other products perform well.
I have used 100% clear silicone to repair aquariums since the 1970s. You MUST be careful picking out the type. If you get the anti-mildew type it will kill your fish it is very different "how can it also be 100%?". The color and white silicones do not seem to have quite the same strength. I use that stuff for almost everything.
i coated an iron entrance to a store with flex seal brushed on it settled out nicely and is still going strong after eight years approx.no peeling no cracking.
My favorite use of Flex Seal is on the roof of my storage building. It was leaking like a river where the nails were installed in the roof. Hammering them back down did no good whatsoever! The Flex Seal solved the problem.
I don't know about their winter wax, I haven't found it anywhere. For coating metal with a spray on wax coating, I use T-9 which is a Boeing product that was initially produced to protect aircraft cables etc. from moisture. Being a contractor, I use T-9 to precoat all of the tools that come in contact with water. I use it on drywall knives and hawks, mixers for drywall mud, tile thinset, epoxy grouts, coating the rims and lids of paint and adhesive cans ( which allows me to just push the lids with my thumbs to seal them without having to use a hammer), precoating mortar pails, paint trays etc. for easy cleanup. The lighter the coat, the better. Latex paints dry so quickly that I will precoat my roller cages, and even work it into paint brushes, especially where the paint dries the quickest, toward the farel. These are just several applications that I use T-9 for, which makes cleanup a lot quicker, easier, and prolongs tool life.
During a bathroom plumbing re-pipe, we decided to keep the 100 year old lead drain lines that were imbedded in the tile floor instead of tearing up all the original 1920s tile. Unfortunately we accidently drilled a hole in a section we had to expose and freaked out. Our solution was to seal the hole with plumbers epoxy then cover the entire exposed drain in Flex Seal before repairing the tile over top. It hasn't leaked yet, fingers crossed!
Encase the pipe in hydrolic cement if that ever happens to u again. I've done countless jobs with it for that exact repair. Really for foundations and such
I have an Imagine TT. I had to fix the heating duct underneath the floor. I pulled the bottom off fixed it and then put it back together with the screws and flex tape. It was great! It sticks unbelievable. It looks much better underneath now than it did before.
I sealed the inside of my roof next to the heater and another place that was leaking from the roof with Flex Seal. I used the clear aerosol spray and the wood has a glossy look to it now. We haven’t found any leaks when it’s rained since I finished that project. 😁
My wife was picking up paint for our daughter's room and asked for caulk or something along those lines and they sold her the Flex Glue. I got home from work to start painting and realized she'd gone through the room plugging all of the screw wholes and whatnot in the sheetrock. Unfortunately, the Flex Glue is super shiny rubber and wouldn't take paint applied over it.
I had a 97 jeep TJ up until 2018 and back when I had a soft top, I had a couple of very small rips and I had to wait for payday to be able to buy replacement canvas top. I used a can of this flexseal and it worked like a charm. It lasted about a month actually.
I used the flex seal paint when repairing the floor near the door in our old house. due to the location of the door rain would get in if you left the door open or when walking in would wet the carpet and in turn the floor. it rotted away so I cut out and replaced the wood and coated the entire area in flex seal. and it put a good 1/8th or more thick coat on top of the wood which then was covered with padding and carpet so you would only know it was there if you pulled up the carpet. I feel like it made it more solid sounding. I liked it.
Some of his products still work today though. I have an original Veg O Matic in the box, with all the accessories. It has to be 50 years old now at least. Still works great. I do want to find one of his pocket fishermen to put in my backpack. Partly for fun to have people go "I remember that" when I pull it out to fish. Got to hand it to old Ron, he started a whole "thing". Like it or not, he was the first, so got to give him credit for that at least. But his spray on hair was a crazy krap gimmick. Funny though.
I wonder if people actually think that flex sealing or flex taping a boat is a permanent solution. When I seen the commercial with the screen door in the bottom of it the first thing I thought was if it will do that long enough to float the boat for the commercial it would probably work good from a job you would actually need it for.
I painted the tired vinyl top of my '85 Diplomat w/ a self-mixed blend of white & black FlexSeal liquid to match it's original grey about 5 yrs ago & it still looks great! On a car that sleeps outside! (my garages are reserved for my '60s Chryslers)
I was using it to seal up a seadoo twin engine jet boat hull. Good product, not so good when you get it in your eye though. Wear your safety glasses kids!
This was mainly designed for fixing RVs since the fiberglass would crack and break you could easily just pour some of this on it and it would fix it for years
We use flex seal spray to coat the inside of r/c car bodies. It keeps the thin plastic bodies from cracking so easily. I've never used the stuff to "fix" anything around the house.
Various roofing products, such as top sealers and tars, are basically the same thing at only a fraction of the cost. A 5-gal bucket of top sealer or roof tar at any big box hardware store start at only $50 and up.
the glue was terrible. The Flex Shot is awesome. I have used it to seal holes in my wall; sealed a cracked tail light; used it seal the cracked dashboard of truck
I used Gorilla Glue and Ducktape on my vans mirror. So far so good. Have used flex spray on my camper. Took a few cans, but it was a big hole. Y'all have a good one!
I used the black spray to coat a modified sheet Pan (to waterproof it) that’s under my fb marketplace bandsaw score for pennies on the dollar. Having a cooling/cutting fluid system extends the blade life and does make the cuts smoother. So far so good with it holding up and not melting away because of the cutting oil. THAT was a concern, but nope it’s fine. I priced a whole system with pump and adjustable nozzle, hoses and clamps and it ran for more than 3x what I paid for the saw alone! That’s just crazy and why I’ve chosen to make my own... My saw is an old school “Rong Fu rf-115” machine shop size (4x6) horizontal/vertical saw, so once I complete this restoration this thing should outlive me! I’ve also been known to redip my linesman nines handles over the years using plasti-dip while i was in the electrical trade on the civilian side of life. Thats good stuff as well! Thanks for sharing, shine on!
I remember when OxiClean came out and my grandmother said yeah it’s just hydrogen peroxide I’ve known about that since the twenties. She also noted it’s limitation’s about cleaning grease stains.
only works on organic stains. wont take road tar out of a shirt.
@@stevensenlacere1619 my grandmother used lestoil on tar, works like a charm. smells funny and can be hard to find but works amazing.
OxiClean is something like 60% hydrogen peroxide, and the rest is sodium carbonate, aka washing soda. The stuff you put on cuts is about 3%, and I think the stuff for bleaching hair is about 10%. Fortunately the washing soda stabilizes the hydrogen peroxide, otherwise you'd have something extremely hazardous to handle.
For reference, the rocket jetpack the Air Force developed in the sixties (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Rocket_Belt?wprov=sfla1) was powered by, I think, 70% hydrogen peroxide which decomposed when it hit a catalytic screen in the nozzle. A lot of spacecraft have little attitude control thrusters that use the same principle: concentrated hydrogen peroxide hitting a metal screen with a catalyst.
The washing soda is alkaline and should saponify greases and fats from food, etc, but not mineral oils and greases..
OxiClean is mostly sodium percarbonate, which when added to water, decomposes to sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide.
I liked Octagon bar soap. Liked the fragrance, universal uses and I made liquid hand soap out of it. Now it's discontinued. 😠
My last project using flex seal was just yesterday. My wife wanted me to fix a leak in the roof. After three months of her telling me to fix it I finally used flex seal on her mouth! My roof still leaks but it's so quiet here..... Oh, the police want me to talk to them... Look forward to your next video
You win comment of the day. You are now in the running for comment of the year!
LOL CLASSIC!!!
Got to use flex paste lol.
If they used that in the infomercial every married man would order 10.
"It can save you THOUSANDS"
Flex seal wouldn’t seal a gutter for me.
My favorite experience with flex seal was when I was in the Plubing supply house and the guy in front of me has the whole continuous waste and trap off his double sink and it has duct tape and flex seal sprayed all over it. The guy says “I got a little rotten pipe right there.” The counter man throws a box containing the whole kit on the counter and says “15 bucks.” The guy say “No I only want that one pipe right there.” So the counter man opens the box, pulls out the pipe, lays it on the counter and says, 15 bucks. The guy gets all PO’d and says “now you are trying to rip me off.”
The counter man says, Don’t worry, when you come back after you can’t get that crap apart and cleaned up, I’m going to give you the rest of the box free, you just don’t know you need it yet!”
Why would he cheap out like that? He probably spent more money and time putting bandaids things than fixing them.
I have a neighbor like that. He keeps asking me if I have any JB weld. There's a reason you never see that stuff used in a mechanic shop.
Now that right there...
That's funny!
I don't care who ya are!!!🤣
Some people like making small repairs into lifetime projects... lol
@@ColinTimmins Why not make an entire boat out of it?
@@ColinTimmins The guy I bought my house from! Everything he did skipped simple, cheap and obvious things which mean problems develop requiring the entire job to be redone. And a do over is never simple or cheap.
I used it on a tree wound, the tree grew back its bark, also used it to seal the insects out of an old wound on my parents Huge black walnut.
Baking soda and mineral oil. Mix to a paste. Apply to wound. Let it dry. Cheap and works fine.
I love black walnuts!
I use pine tar for tree wounds, available at tsc
I used flex tape to seal a leaky sunroof on my explorer 2/3 years ago, and it's still holding strong. prep is key for sure, you gotta get everything CLEAN!
Gorilla tape may be a little more expensive, but you get double the length, so it's actually cheaper.
TRex actually out performed Gorilla in the Project Farm testing.
Agreed you get east you pay for with duct tape.
I’ve used the black, the white and the clear. I think they are all significantly better than anything the competition produces, including 3m.
Why pay THOUSANDS to fix it correctly when you can spend 2 seconds to just kick the can down the road.
Why spend the money to hire a contractor?
Just get the job done right with flexseal.
Sounds like congress
Because MERICA BIRCHES!!!! 🦅🇺🇸💥
Because you can be paying thousands and still not get it done correctly.
I used it to fix cracks and tears in my old Miata rag top, because I just didn't have the money/time to replace it. $12 for a can versus $400 for a new top. Lasted years before I gave the car away to one of my kids (a mechanic).
A goober I know used some to "seal" several holes in an old aluminum Jon boat a year or two ago. It worked very well for about a year (the boat, under his ownership, was stored in a garage) but he was a lucky duck, so to speak, to be a good, strong swimmer when two of the bigger holes "blew out" while he was fishing in the middle of a large farm pond on his property. The boat WAS recovered....Thanks to two swimming and diving fool teenage sons and a Ford farm tractor equipped with a front mounted winch and a lot of cable....He has since had the old boat professionally repaired with aluminum patches and uses it for fishing in his ponds and a couple of local lakes.
I used the black spray on my outside foundation walls. Looked good at first. Within a year, the black faded to a dirty whiteish chalky look and by year 2 it was pretty much all peeled off.
@Ron That happens pretty much with any type of spray without UV additives.
Just when I thought I've seen everything on the internet I come across a bear talking about tools....
Not nice to talk about his looks! He is a little sensitive bout it. Lol
Maybe we all can get a clear answer does a bear s**t in the woods ?
@@wolfwolfenstein5537 DUH ! is a bear going to break into someone's house to use the John?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@timlarson7228 If a bear takes a dump in the forest does it make a sound?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I agree. What a dork.
Does flex seal work as a hair spray as good as gorilla glue? Asking for a black woman friend of mine.
Story reminds me of Simple Green. My dad worked in the chrome wheel business. I remember as a kid going to Hacienda Heights to see a guy that made a chemical in his garage called Nicklebright. It was blue in color. His name was Joe Fabrizio. Years later one of his sons did a infomercial with Simple Green. He was on a tarmac and actually took a drink to show how safe it was.
The key is easy: Halfway good products, a charming and funny presenter, and a company that understand memes and uses them (and not being pissed of by them).
As an RV Technician, this stuff is straight evil.
OK i'm admitting to being naive here... Straight evil because it is an improper repair, or does not work, or works so good that it puts you out of work?
@@cinocrossed609
Doesn’t work long term and is a pain to remove and fix correctly.
@@Jay73425 I could believe that very easily.
It damages the membrane
As an rv tech aswell i totally agree,i tell customers labour will be doubled as it is a PIA to remove.
Flex Seal liquid gallon for $89.88 or Henry's sealant for $9.97/ gallon? Hmmmm. There's a sucker born every day.
Compare the roof of an RV being repaired to a couple hundred dollars worth of Flex Seal
Somebody has to pay for those ads!
Henry's sucks ! Always cracked in the sun ☀️ I used flex seal liquid and I would never use anything else 👍🙂
Bought a gallon of Henry "rubberized wet patch" (mastic/tar) at lowes for $40. A day later I saw that the same stuff, but different brand is in walmart at $15.00 a gallon. Pays to shop around.
Submarine Sealant $10 gal
Used the gorilla version of flex tape because lowes had it at the same price but with twice the amount. Gorilla was a little stiffer, not as pliable, but seemed to be a little more aggressive adhering to objects. The end result was the same for both products. Id pick whichever is cheaper every time
I sprayed Flex Seal in the water pan of my CNC Plasma build. It's been holding water for over 2 years now and still no leaks. This stuff is great!
I have used the spray, glue, roll on and tape. Used the spray as a base layer paint for a scooter. The glue I used on my boat for the bilge. The roll on I used for weather proofing the chicken coop roof.
I used flex seal on my metal roof after a tree fell on it an punctured tiny holes my son didn't notice and seal with silicone. I'm very thankful for it. Planning to use it to cover all my roof this year. 2 years ago I used it around the vent pipe for the sewer...I had rain coming down into my home. Not any more! I'll check it each year to make sure it hasn't shrunk or cracked...but it sealed my rusted roof portion so nicely. 2 gallons and the end of my house has no more leaks, it looks lovely, and the snow slid right off this winter. I am pleased with the gallons of it.
The tape? Not so much! I used it on my ancient motor home. It peeled off and did not hold. Not so good a product, in my humble opinion.
The spray? I used it on the roof of my motor home. It bubbled up, left gaps. I did not care for it at all.
I'll stick with the liquid type used on my home roof. I put it over the spray style and sealed the roof of the motor home nicely. It's worth the money, in my humble opinion.
Blessings!
Let me know when the come out with flex hair for my bald hair.
Give the Gorilla Glue lady a call.
Maybe Chia Pet could team up with flex seal and you could paste your head with the crap and go take a shower to get it wet. People could watch your hair grow right in front of them.
Ron Popiel has that cornered with the hair powder spray.
Contact the bikini line wax parlour.
I watch a lot of Project Farm and they test items like this. If anyone out there needs some advice, Todd is your man of what's good out there and what's a waste of money and time.
Yup Project Farm is where it's at for stuff like this.
The gorilla waterproof tape is amazing I have use that to repair a liner in my pool with water in it @TheDenOfTools
I did my pool liner as well with the flex tape while the pool was full
@@specialK_hvac thats cool
I did also!
I feel like it sticks a little better then flex tape
I like most gorilla glue, tape etc they work very well
I’m a chemist in industry. This is a brand with many reworked ideas, but the core product appears to be an SEBS rubber lacquer. Not new at all, but with today’s regulations on solvents the aerosol version of many of these products stand out. Comparable water-based products need good conditions to cure. 25 years ago local paint stores had similar products in cans and a clerk who worked with them. Today’s is big box, TV and videos and they serve a purpose. If you have a big job there are usually commercial analogs that often much better, but finding them is hard.
Take Gorilla tape, it’s good. But in roofing we have something called eterna-bond that’s much more aggressive. Both have there place and I have both in my RV tool bag.commercial coatings are not too different from Flex Seal in a can and more solids and will last longer. I think they go back to 50’s.
X100 for Etrnabond and its primer!
Let's not forget Sashco's 'Through the Roof' sealant in brushable and trowel grades.
I added a metal roof to my patio. Used the roll on flex seal to seal the screws through the metal.
It's been there 4 years with no runs, drips, or errors.
Used 4 inch flex tape to seal a top radiator hose on my 94 Chevy pickup. Got me home 180 miles in the middle of the night when nothing was open.
I'll keep using their products whenever I have a place for it..
You said it right, use a product made specifically for the application. Captaining is serious business and boats can’t afford a product unproven to endure. I’ve used this seen on TV product and there’s good reason the marketing was needed to push this non-specialized, non-leading, non-cost effective, over-hyped product bought by the millions who still haven’t found the right way to fix their leaks. As a boat and RV owner you are part of a crowd known for over spending due to inconvenient circumstances with luxury adventures. If they did the same level of marketing that 3M does for their similar but specialized and truly innovative quality products Flex would likely not sell much based on product reputation and industry word of mouth alone. Especially at what is it now $20+ a pint? Btw, your videos, the bear and your well scoped sound and seasoned research and opinions are enlightening, many thanks.
Another product that is the same just how it’s marketed. Liquid electrical tape. It can be used to cover the wire connections and it will peel off if you need to get to that connection in the future. It works good, I’ve switched to using it.
We dip our hands in liquid electrical tape to protect them from the cold outside and then we just rip it off and throw it away when we're done
Used Flex Seal Spray on some cracks in the bottom of a plastic tub fixture. Used marking pens to match the color of the tub. Taped off the area around the cracks. Multiple levels of spray. Worked. Used Clear. That was over three years ago. Tends to turn dark after time. Time to replace or paint.
Used the Flex Seal Paste. Difficult to mold and keeps the shape as soon as it hits the surface. The containers are at least twice as large as volume.
Spray cooking spray on a shovel so snow does not stick.
Dip your car is amazing. I've used tons of there products. Plasti dipped my truck and 2 motorcycles.. the colors are endless
What about POR15? That stuff is hard to beat, but extremely expensive.
So after falling and breaking my leg in the bathroom, I purchased the sandpaper tapes with built-in glow strips. After a full winter night, at 5 in the morning, you can still see the following floor.
I probably wouldn't do a spray on, but glow products done right last a long time. I would certainly consider it for an outside stair of there wasn't good lighting.
I used flex seal liquid on a cracking lawn mower seat... Actually works great... But it adhered well to the foam under the vinyl but it did come of where it was stuck to vinyl instead of the foam.
So it would probably be better if the vinyl was removed entirely.
I used this stuff to build a "catbox room" in my garage with a doggy door from the house. makes life easier with cleaning and keeps the house from having any cat box odor. works great for that.
A bear saying “gloopy” has earned this channel a sub! Great work training the bear to do that. 🐻
I have a 35 year old house with hardboard siding.The lower boards started looking not good. Cleaned them up, let dry good, got the spray, did two medium treatments over a week and repainted. After two years it looks like new.
Their tape sounds similar to Eternabond, which I've used successfully for many years for quick repairs on EPDM roofing, and flashing.
Fluid Film was what I used on my plows, snowblowers, and snow shovels. Fantastic stuff.
i think fluid film is great and really lasts as a lube and i use it a lot, but it's to pricey to use for your uses,, at least for me..
@@darrellwolf5638 I used it in a commercial application and in my case, it sped up the shoveling and snowblowers especially, by them not having clogged chutes and shovels. It only got applied to a plow if that storm had particularly sticky snow. It does make a difference over 19+ hours of service. 👍
Darrell Wolf *too pricey.
Plasti-dip was in the whole Earth Catalog
That’s all needed to know
Loving it since the early ‘70’s
Flex Seal works - for a while. Example: join together salvaged sections of gutter, spray the joints; block an unwanted downspout opening in an end piece with a tuna can lid and a quick spray. Fast forward a couple of years, and it is getting brittle and failing, even in our soggy sun starved Pacific NorthWET. Rustoleum sells their own version; not sure how many others.
Comparing it to "duck tape" (not duct tape) is exactly right. It's a temp fix, but really expensive if you add it all up for medium to large jobs. It's like rebuilding an engine with nothing but an adjustable wrench. It "can" be done, but the end result is a lot better when you use the RIGHT tools for the job. If a tool or product does Everything....... it does everything half-arsed.
Project Farm UA-cam channel did flex-seal comparison testing with perma-seal and other.
Back in the early 2000s I had a pickup on my FedEx route of something called "Blue Fire" it was literally salt rock with blue food coloring in it to melt snow. Suckers are born everyday!
Tell that to Walter white
I always though of flex seal being rebranded automotive undercoating I used to buy in spray cans at the auto parts store years ago.
That's exactly what it is, I worked in an aerosol plant that made it, undercoat + mineral spirits.
I've removed chunks of frame from 10 year old pickups and that undercoat or zbart will hold water in and rot everything. That said I know undercoating will hold water so i never paid this product any mind
@@workingcountry1776 I'm a lifelong air-cooled VW enthusiast, and I can say with 100% conviction that every example I've found that was once undercoated or "Ziebarted" was a complete rotted out shitbox. Any that were left in factory paint were many times better off.
early 2000's I was buying a TDI "New Beetle" and I walked away from several dealers that applied their own undercoating to the cars before they were sold. Said they wouldn't honor the corrosion warranty if I didn't agree to it. Well then, BYE!
Brian Wittling best under coating kerosene and motor oil put in a garden sprayer and coat underneath occasionally....but keeping clean during winter especially is important I spend more time on the under carriage then the out side during the winter that’s where rust starts at.
@@danbailey96 this is such an absolute fact that most wouldn't ever imagine was!
A good neighbor of mine had a swimming pool filter that had a cracked filter housing. She watched these flex seal commercials and bought some and asked me to apply it. I applied it to the inside of the filter housing exactly as recommended, waited the times for curing etc,. It leaked just as bad as it did before. I finally told her to get me a tube of regular silicone sealant and fixed it for a third of the price she spent for this product!
I used the black flex seal in a shower mixer valve replaced in shower that was tiled. Had to remove tile and backer board to get to the broken valve. I staggered the tile and backer layers so that water has no direct penetration. I sprayed the flex seal over the backer board patch using fiberglass reinforcement tape. Let it set up over the weekend, came back and finished the tile patch around the valve. Told my customer to let my seal job stand for 1 week before using the shower. 5 years later and still no leaks
Of u do however buy plasti dip from autozone...please make sure u know if your vehicle is 2wd or 4wd
They must know the make and model too, or forget being able to give you a part number and price.
Every flexseal I've looked at, it says multiple coats may be necessary
To cover themselves, peeps will jump onto any chance to screw you
That plasti dip channel I been watching them for year's!
What's the name of it?
@@Clay3613 ua-cam.com/video/7J6rRj98A5s/v-deo.html
@@Clay3613 DYC (Dip your car)
@@edtheoldtechguy Oh I thought it was gonna be the official Plasti Dip channel.
I haven't tried any of the flex products. I tend to do my repairs with the correct materials so I don't have to come back in a couple months and fix a patch job.
Phil is following in the footsteps of Billy Maze, probably the greatest pitchman of our generation. Billy was part owner of that Oxiclean stuff he was always pitching, and it sold like crazy. Eventually they sold the entire brand for hundreds of millions and it was that valuable because Billy had pitched it so well and made it a household name. Phil has done the same with his product and now it's everywhere. I've seen it for sale at convenience stores, grocery stores, auto parts stores, everywhere. It would not stay in those places if it didn't sell. All credit to Phil for that. I hope he's made a fortune off it. RIP Billy Maze.
LS pitch man or con man ? But definitely a junkie
Interesting I didn’t know Maze was part owner.
I got a product called "FUG" ,IF Duct tape won't fix it, and Flex tape don't do it,then "FUG IT!!" 😂
We used the liquid flex seal to fix a leaky baptismal that had not been used for 27 years. We lightly sanded it, cleaned it, then applied 2 coats. That was 2 1/2 years ago and the once leaky baptismal (it had many large leaks and some small leaks) now works great! I would highly recommend the liquid flex seal. I have since used the spray can flex seal to fix some drips in our gutter before selling the home last summer.
Maybe god healed it?
Flex tape couldn't fix my deteriorating marriage so
Flex Seal was just too rough a coat you should use Plasti Dip and had a much finer finish on it
Clearly you weren't using it right. Duct tape has been "fixing" marital disputes for years, Flex could easily do the same.
It's not the size of the tape - It's how you use it. Did you try it on your spouse's mouth or yours? The answer may identify the problem. Good luck!!!
You need the rubber in a can 😂🤣
Hell yeah Kyle
I thought you were going to slam the Flex products. Glad you didn’t. I used Flex Seal to fill the cracks in my house’s plaster before it was painted. That was several “all season” years ago. I’ve had no problems, no degradation, no reopening of the cracks. The stuff works.
One of the few things of theirs I think is good, is the tape, used under windows flanges on an RV. Remove the bolts, tape, replace the window. Never had a leak again. I understand it is not as good for roof repair, but for a window, where the water doesn't pool on it, and the sun doesn't get underneath to wear it out, I think it is ok. You just have to pick your battles with this stuff. I had some bolt holes that were allowing water and ants to enter as well. The caulk filled that in just fine as well. I think the trick here is to use it where UV wont break it down as much.
I worked at a factory that did aerosols, flex seal was one of the products. There's 2 ingredients in it: car undercoat and mineral spirits. The main ingredient, of course, being the undercoat. Useless information I assume, but it's not a complex formula by any means.
You have to try Chemlink sealant. We started selling this where I work. It is the toughest caulk I have ever seen. A form also comes in a roof pitch pocket version that comes in a bag that can be poured into a form. I'm not affiliated but truly impressed. It's inexpensive also. Keep up the great videos. Thanks, Tim
Bear since COVID I went from being a cook to the custodial/janitorial service and the “deformanatzor” might be something we use on carpet cleaning, is an “afterthought” product it’s really to remove lazy over foam! Anyways I feel that that stuff is like a super strong Downy fabric softener.
Oh yeah I also sprayed the flex seal inside my tile saws water pan. Works great! I think that all the fails that I have read are more likely lack of preparation (and then of course maintenance) .I have great results. Again prepping is first priority. Dry time is second. And as for the tray of my tile saw I rinse out at the end of each work day. Had to replace the tray on my first saw after two years because it rusted through. I neglected the daily maintenance and paid for it. Now my trays are sealed and maintained
5200 is not Silicone. It is a polyurethane based compound.
I made a big deal of correcting myself in the video and you still felt the need to post this? Really?
Not FlexSeal but a product that seem to be used for other than intended purposes is DIY roll on pickup truck bedliner. I did my back stairs in it and am quite pleased with the result. It goes on black and then I painted it with a specific patio paint. It has made it so far through the first winter with no deterioration. The can though actually states this as a suggested use.
I've used the Rustoleum version of Flexseal on rain gutter joints that leaked - they still leak so I'm not impressed.
All the Flex Seal products are fairly good, but the prices are really exorbitant. I mean, for what it cost to tape that boat back together, or cover that screen-hulled boat, you could have bought a nice new boat!
Red I tried a couple cans of that spray type Flex Seal and I honestly have to say "Don't waste your money on it!"!!!! It doesn't work, did absolutely NOTHING and didn't seal what I needed to stop leaking!! I built an outdoor storage bench which is hard enough to "seal up" and used Flex Seal on the lid to the bench!! It did absolutely NOTHING AT ALL!! A few months ago I rebuilt the lid for the same bench and I THIS TIME used Tite Bond III on it to glue the wood slates into one giant piece of wood!!! THAT seemed to fix the problem I was having!!! Save your money Flex Seal is worthless!!!
Say what you want the stuff is amazing. Ive used flex seal in situations i had no faith in it working but it far surpassed any expectations i had. The plastidip sucks. You scratch it off with your finger nail. Ive used the flex seal spray. The flex shot. The paste and the canned liquid. All of them have been great. Again the plasti dip says to use on you tool handles it rubs off when you handle the tools. The rustoleum flex spray works well. The key to all of these products are in the preparation. The tape works great on roof patches or will close most any opening to keep water or air out. The flex shot is great because its tougher than caulk. The flex glue actually glued my memory foam flip flops together. The fabric had ripped out of the souls. The souls split down the center where the straps tucked under and were thermally glued. I didnt think it would fix it but ive been wearing them for 8 months since. Ive been trying all kinds of fixes with this stuff and as high as the price is ive had no complaints due to it failing.
3M makes a waterproof caulk/sealant that has NO silicone. It will NOT grow mold ever. It is a one step polyurethane base that is absolutely awesome. We used it on exterior door thresh holds, and 6 years later we decided to replace the door, casing and all. Using a 4 ft. pry bar, it actually broke concrete loose instead of releasing from this caulk, and the remainder we had to cut repeatedly with a razor knife. It is also sea worthy.
If you need to smooth it, water is no good and you need lacquer thinner. It is dry to the touch after 24 hrs. but takes 7 days to fully cure.
I have only ever seen it in white, and I know H.D. carries it but don't know if it is available at Lowes.
I use to always keep a tube of Eclectic Products Goop in my automotive tool box.
I think all formulas should be UV stable.
Usually bought at Walmart.
I caution users of Flex Seal in a spray can if you need the joint to flex. I used about 15 spray cans to seal a fiberglass attic on a box van and the fiberglass roof. The surface was prepared properly and the Flex Seal was applied in thin coats allowing for full cure between coats. The Flex Seal in my experience adheres well and is easy to apply but it cracks. Any place that has joint movement I would not use Flex Seal. I would suggest using an appropriate silicone. This was my experience with Flex Seal and it is for the spray can only. I do not know if their other products perform well.
I have used 100% clear silicone to repair aquariums since the 1970s. You MUST be careful picking out the type. If you get the anti-mildew type it will kill your fish it is very different "how can it also be 100%?". The color and white silicones do not seem to have quite the same strength. I use that stuff for almost everything.
use PAM for snow shovels, flex underwater tape is 5' long gorilla underwater tape is 10'
For calk and thick body adhesive, I'll stick with a regular tube that drops into a calk gun.
wtf is "calk"?
I agree as dap caulking compound for sealing siding for painting is awesome. Never used flex seal crap for that
i coated an iron entrance to a store with flex seal brushed on it settled out nicely and is still going strong after eight years approx.no peeling no cracking.
Flex seal isn't for handle of tools, black at least. I coated scissor handles, it put a black ring around my thumb and pointer finger.
My favorite use of Flex Seal is on the roof of my storage building. It was leaking like a river where the nails were installed in the roof. Hammering them back down did no good whatsoever! The Flex Seal solved the problem.
I don't know about their winter wax, I haven't found it anywhere. For coating metal with a spray on wax coating, I use T-9 which is a Boeing product that was initially produced to protect aircraft cables etc. from moisture. Being a contractor, I use T-9 to precoat all of the tools that come in contact with water. I use it on drywall knives and hawks, mixers for drywall mud, tile thinset, epoxy grouts, coating the rims and lids of paint and adhesive cans ( which allows me to just push the lids with my thumbs to seal them without having to use a hammer), precoating mortar pails, paint trays etc. for easy cleanup. The lighter the coat, the better. Latex paints dry so quickly that I will precoat my roller cages, and even work it into paint brushes, especially where the paint dries the quickest, toward the farel. These are just several applications that I use T-9 for, which makes cleanup a lot quicker, easier, and prolongs tool life.
During a bathroom plumbing re-pipe, we decided to keep the 100 year old lead drain lines that were imbedded in the tile floor instead of tearing up all the original 1920s tile. Unfortunately we accidently drilled a hole in a section we had to expose and freaked out. Our solution was to seal the hole with plumbers epoxy then cover the entire exposed drain in Flex Seal before repairing the tile over top. It hasn't leaked yet, fingers crossed!
Encase the pipe in hydrolic cement if that ever happens to u again. I've done countless jobs with it for that exact repair. Really for foundations and such
I have an Imagine TT. I had to fix the heating duct underneath the floor. I pulled the bottom off fixed it and then put it back together with the screws and flex tape. It was great! It sticks unbelievable. It looks much better underneath now than it did before.
I sealed the inside of my roof next to the heater and another place that was leaking from the roof with Flex Seal. I used the clear aerosol spray and the wood has a glossy look to it now. We haven’t found any leaks when it’s rained since I finished that project. 😁
Sorry to be "that guy" bear, but the term you were looking for when comparing PlastiDip and FlexSeal spray, is that FlexSeal is more viscous.
Nope you're exactly right thanks I hate it when I can't think of a term that I was trying to get out
My wife was picking up paint for our daughter's room and asked for caulk or something along those lines and they sold her the Flex Glue. I got home from work to start painting and realized she'd gone through the room plugging all of the screw wholes and whatnot in the sheetrock. Unfortunately, the Flex Glue is super shiny rubber and wouldn't take paint applied over it.
I had a 97 jeep TJ up until 2018 and back when I had a soft top, I had a couple of very small rips and I had to wait for payday to be able to buy replacement canvas top. I used a can of this flexseal and it worked like a charm. It lasted about a month actually.
I used the flex seal paint when repairing the floor near the door in our old house. due to the location of the door rain would get in if you left the door open or when walking in would wet the carpet and in turn the floor. it rotted away so I cut out and replaced the wood and coated the entire area in flex seal. and it put a good 1/8th or more thick coat on top of the wood which then was covered with padding and carpet so you would only know it was there if you pulled up the carpet. I feel like it made it more solid sounding. I liked it.
As a kid I remember Ron Popeil actually hawking his products at State Fairs, so nothing new.
I remember Ron Popell's pocket folding fishing rod/reel.
I still have two of those fishing kits!
@@hiredgun05 I remember back in the early 1970's you could buy a new, American made 🇺🇸 Zebco 202 for one dollar. 😃
Some of his products still work today though. I have an original Veg O Matic in the box, with all the accessories. It has to be 50 years old now at least. Still works great. I do want to find one of his pocket fishermen to put in my backpack. Partly for fun to have people go "I remember that" when I pull it out to fish. Got to hand it to old Ron, he started a whole "thing". Like it or not, he was the first, so got to give him credit for that at least. But his spray on hair was a crazy krap gimmick. Funny though.
I wonder if people actually think that flex sealing or flex taping a boat is a permanent solution. When I seen the commercial with the screen door in the bottom of it the first thing I thought was if it will do that long enough to float the boat for the commercial it would probably work good from a job you would actually need it for.
I painted the tired vinyl top of my '85 Diplomat w/ a self-mixed blend of white & black FlexSeal liquid to match it's original grey about 5 yrs ago & it still looks great! On a car that sleeps outside! (my garages are reserved for my '60s Chryslers)
I was using it to seal up a seadoo twin engine jet boat hull. Good product, not so good when you get it in your eye though. Wear your safety glasses kids!
It does not work for high temperature applications such as roofing. If you have a roof leak, fix it properly.
Flex tape is amazing been holding the side of our work trailer together for 3 years so far lol
Pretty slick segway by the bear into selling his merchandise!
I'd pay money to see Red on a Segway 🤣
Not enough for the knee replacements, though.
Segue....
This was mainly designed for fixing RVs since the fiberglass would crack and break you could easily just pour some of this on it and it would fix it for years
This product is rubberized undercoat used on the undercarriage of cars to inhibit rust. About $4 can at AutoZ
We use flex seal spray to coat the inside of r/c car bodies. It keeps the thin plastic bodies from cracking so easily. I've never used the stuff to "fix" anything around the house.
What 'truth' about flex seal are the vast majority of people unaware of and that this video sheds light on? I must have missed the point.
Various roofing products, such as top sealers and tars, are basically the same thing at only a fraction of the cost. A 5-gal bucket of top sealer or roof tar at any big box hardware store start at only $50 and up.
Didn't the professor invent flex sell back on the island. He used it on phone cable that washed up on the island
I tried flex tape on a rusted through horse water trough. Did not adhere to the galvanized surface, wet or dry. Disappointed.
Sili-CONE, sili-CONE! silicon is what computer chips are made from
I know, I know but in fairness I did correct myself.
SiliCON is the element in sand.
SiliCONE is the rubberized polymer.
the glue was terrible. The Flex Shot is awesome. I have used it to seal holes in my wall; sealed a cracked tail light; used it seal the cracked dashboard of truck
I've wondered how different the flex seal spray actually is from spray-on rubberized vehicle undercoating. They seem equally messy!
I used Gorilla Glue and Ducktape on my vans mirror. So far so good.
Have used flex spray on my camper. Took a few cans, but it was a big hole.
Y'all have a good one!
Plastidip is huge is the Cosplay, Professional Prop making industry. It's a must use
I used the black spray to coat a modified sheet Pan (to waterproof it) that’s under my fb marketplace bandsaw score for pennies on the dollar. Having a cooling/cutting fluid system extends the blade life and does make the cuts smoother. So far so good with it holding up and not melting away because of the cutting oil. THAT was a concern, but nope it’s fine. I priced a whole system with pump and adjustable nozzle, hoses and clamps and it ran for more than 3x what I paid for the saw alone! That’s just crazy and why I’ve chosen to make my own...
My saw is an old school “Rong Fu rf-115” machine shop size (4x6) horizontal/vertical saw, so once I complete this restoration this thing should outlive me! I’ve also been known to redip my linesman nines handles over the years using plasti-dip while i was in the electrical trade on the civilian side of life. Thats good stuff as well! Thanks for sharing, shine on!