Getting glue on your hands was rather fun in school.

Remember when you’d spread a whole bunch of it on yourself, wait for it to dry, then peel it off?

Typical school and art-grade glue was mostly harmless unless you ate it.

But when that school glue just won’t cut it, you’ll need something a lot tougher. Enter super glue.

There’s a reason dad told you not to go into his toolbox and touch it. Super glue is called super for a reason. It can hold together plastic, wood, and small sheets of metal.

As strong as super glue is, there’s a way to make it even stronger.

This trick comes courtesy of Inventor 101 on YouTube. Anyone who does engineering, construction work, or just likes fiddling in the garage would appreciate this.

Through another humble, everyday object, he made super glue even more super.

The secret was just some baking soda.

It was enough to make the glue strong enough to withstand dozens of pounds of force.

Just to prove a point, he attached a nail to a bottlecap and stuck it on with the combo of super glue and baking soda.

It was a bit messy, but the results speak for themselves.

So how strong was this combination then? Well, he took a 28-pound weight and strapped it onto the nail.

Can that super glue and baking soda mixture hold this up?

Looks like the answer was yes. With ease too.

Even a hammer can’t do anything. Despite a few forceful swings from one, the nail stays in place.

That’s some scarily strong glue you’ve made there!

That’s not the only thing the glue can do.

It can even replace missing portions of equipment. For instance, this gear.

Inventor 101 takes off a big section from the gear and goes through the elaborate process of molding a replacement piece. His choice of material was, of course, the combo of super glue and baking soda.

With some measuring and mold-making, he casts the mixture into the shape of the missing gear section. Then he reattaches it and shows that it’s every bit as strong as the missing piece.

Yes, this gear is plenty strong to get the job done.

If anything, the hard part is learning how to cast it into that shape first!

This last one is a bit more situational, but who am I to say you’ll never end up using it?

You can use the mixture to hold screws in too.

In the demonstration, he takes a board that a metal hinge would normally be screwed onto. He empties out the holes where the screw holes would go, save for one. For that one, he takes out a sizable bit out of the wood and fills it in with the super glue.

And would you believe it, it holds the screw in just as steady as a normal board.

If you ever find yourself needing something as ridiculously strong as this for a project, then you certainly should look into it. Just be careful not to get any of it on your skin, obviously.

See how it’s done in the video below!

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Source: Inventor 101 on YouTube, howstuffworks.com