/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Not the easiest combo to work with, fair warning, but

baking soda : superglue :: spinach : Popeye

They react chemically on contact, which means the glue “dries” nearly instantly; whatever excess ends up around the edges is easily filed away for a clean finish on the seal. Precision is certainly possible, despite the challenges it presents, but detailed repair is definitely a bad choice for the first foray. Avoid trying it on anything important until you're used to working with it. Repositioning is a bitch if you're even slightly off with the initial placement.

A bond between porous, rough-textured materials that gets to cure for a day will yield better results than one between materials with low (or no) porosity and smooth surfaces that gets to cure for an hour. Doesn't always play nice with glass and metal; gets along well with most plastics, broken ceramic shit, etc.; wood = bff ...You get the idea. Anyway, regardless of what it's being applied to, superglue + baking soda will always make for a stronger bond than superglue alone is capable of.

pic is unrelated, but relevant to thread, & decidedly more macgyver-y than the post