 If you are a fan of MacGyver style hack jobs on your tech, or maybe just a fan of little odd jobs around the house even then I've got something that you might be interested in. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec and I wasn't really sure where to go with that intro because what I've got to talk about today is a little bit niche. So don't let anyone tell you that I don't make niche videos and I'm not all about the YouTube juice and looking for the highest rated videos because this one is a little bit weird. It is about a thing called not crack cocaine, polymorph. And it is a moldable plastic. So let me just show you what it is and I'll show you also the little project that I'm gonna demonstrate it on as well. So it is, as I say, a moldable plastic and it comes in little granules like this. There you go. And little plastic granules and you simply add water, hot water and they melt and then you can mold them into any shape and then they set as hard as, well not rock, I was gonna say as hard as rock. They set as hard as hard plastic is what they set as hard as. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use this for here. This feels like, I forgot anyone watching from the UK and you're familiar with the children's program, Blue Peter. It's like that. Please make sure that you have a supervision of an adult on standby as well. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna modify my Desview T3 teleprompter, which is what my last video was about and I mentioned about how I was gonna attach my lily put to the bottom here, but I also mentioned how I could probably gain an extra inch of clearance above my monitor by just doing a bit of extra modification. Well, I've already started that modification because I've actually cut the bottom off that because I don't need that. But it has meant that this is now maybe not quite as strong and sturdy as it was when that little gap at the bottom was closed up. So what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna use some of this plastic to strengthen this bottom part here and provide a better place for this monitor to sit. So basically, that's it. I'm gonna go and add the hot water to this now and I'm gonna put it in place here and I'm gonna show you how easy it is and also how it looks when it's finished. And I have also drilled a couple of holes here because as I put the moldable plastic on, I'm gonna have it go through these holes and then there is space for it, a little bit of space. It can't be higher than, that's where's my, this part. It can't be higher than this sort of level here because this is where the slider fits. But as long as it is within this little groove, then it'll be okay. So I'm gonna have the plastic go through this little groove here and through these holes and back out the other side, then flat along there. And so that is the plan and we'll see what a job I make of it and whether I totally hash it up again. But I have been known to mess up projects in the past. But there we go. I'll try my best and I'll go and get the kettle on now and I'll bring boiling hot water over my desk. Don't try this at home without the supervision of a responsible adult. Okay, I'm back. There's now boiling water in the bowl and what you might notice is that those little white granules of the plastic have actually gone totally transparent now and it's almost instant if you use boiling water. The water didn't have to be boiling actually to sort of activate it or to melt it. In fact, if I just drop a few more in you can see how long they take. They'll just slowly turn totally transparent or almost transparent. And that's how quick it sort of becomes pliable basically so that you can use it. Now you can tip the water away but since I am at my desk, I'm not gonna just tip it all over here. So I've cunningly bought a fork with me and as you can see, if I just take this out of the water now, bear in mind there is water involved so it will be wet. But what you can see is, I now have a really quite moldable, unplyable plastic and it's just like put it almost, whoops. He says dropping it in the water and splashing water everywhere. This is how not to do it. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm actually gonna apply it to here. Now, as I said, I want some of this to go through the, it'd help if I have this in view wouldn't it? I want some of this to go through these holes. I'm gonna push it through so that it squeezes through the holes. You can use this for all sorts of things. I use it for anything from fixing kids toys, fixing broken fixtures, modifying things as I'm doing here. And you've got quite a bit of time really. It's not like it suddenly goes hard. I need to make sure I leave room for the screw hole. I'm just gonna move this down here like this. So Daisy, he says, making a complete mess of it. And again, we have to make sure that that is completely flat. So I've bought a knife just to make sure that this is gonna be flat with that surface at the back so that the slider that we have in here is not gonna get in the way. And then I'm gonna put this across this way and it will just sort of stick to itself. It's also sticking to my desk here because I foolishly put some down on the desk. And I'll just put this one along here. And this is where I need another recommendation from Keith Pelzer, the Jib Arm to get these different camera angles in rather than just simply a top-down shot. There we go. This will do for now. So the point of this is to really just sort of stiffen up the plastic at the bottom and give a sort of surface for the lily put monitor to sit onto. Here we go. I'm gonna need in all of this upwards. Upwards. I'm gonna need in all of this up afterwards. Get my words mixed up because I'm trying to do two things at once. Classic, classic Alec area that is trying to do two things at once and it always ends in disaster. Not always, that's not true. But often. Right, so and you may think that this looks a little bit of a mess at the moment but once it's all in place, it will be fine. Well, this is a bit of a departure, isn't it? From my usual how to get things done on your Mac. This is how to hack up your expensive tech gear and try and modify it with some moldable plastic. But I'm hoping that there may be at least one person who watches this who thinks I definitely need that because this is the sort of stuff that once you actually have it in your house, you find all manner of uses for it and I'm using it all the time for all sorts of things. Now, what's happened is just sort of pushed the back out a little bit. So I do need to make sure that I keep that flat so that I can still get my lens cover on like that. Nearly there, you can see it's actually going more and more opaque as it is drying or setting rather. So I just need to do this. You can also sort of trim it afterwards as well. So if it's not exactly right, then you can trim it. One thing to bear in mind in case it wasn't entirely obvious is this is a heat-activated material. So you can also reactivate it again by heating it up. So that means that don't use this on anything where there is gonna be heat involved because that will melt it. It is a moldable plastic that can melt. This is really a quite a different video. This is probably a video that I should have done somewhere else really with hindsight. I probably should have done this as a little livestream to YouTube or something like that or to my Facebook page or something rather than a whole video but I think I will post it to video anyway. He says, thinking as allowed because, and that as you can see he's getting more and more sort of opaque. You can't see through it. And that is a little space there for the screw. So now this will be able to fit on here but don't put it on just yet because otherwise it will actually get stuck to it. It does stick to other services quite well as well. I mean, it's stuck quite nicely to my desk where I spilt a little bit here but it does also just come off. So it's not that big of an issue. And yeah, here's a bit that is sort of going hard. I've got some of my finger there as well but it will get more and more sort of stiff as it goes on and then when it gets to the point where it's sort of semi-translucent like that it will sort of lose its stickiness. You can already see that that's not quite sticking to itself anymore. So that gives you an indication how many minutes are we are in. Probably about six minutes since I actually poured the water on it. So you've got about six minutes after you take it out and then that's now going really quite hard and also back to that transparent. So this one here that I've got on here I could probably, if I wasn't filming and I was being a bit more cautious I could probably neaten that up a bit but I'm not too bothered to be honest because it will ultimately be hidden behind the back of the monitor. But what that has done is it has actually stiffened this whole thing up and certainly when it's set hard it will have as well. And it means that I've saved basically what have I saved off the end of this? I think I've saved about an inch and that will really help with my camera setup because it means my camera can basically, yeah, I've cut off basically an inch of it. So that means my camera can be an inch lower which might not sound like a lot but it is when you're trying to get it as close to your monitor as possible so that you can focus on the camera and the screen at the same time. So that one is pretty much almost there now. So let me just screw on my monitor. Well, there we are. It is well and truly on there now. So now that that has dried it is now fully fixed on there and that is now not going anywhere and I've got it much sort of stronger at the back. I could probably just trim off a little bit of that excess at the bottom there. But that is now a lot sturdier than it was and I can still actually fit this on. So that is polymorph, polymorph, moldable plastic and I will obviously leave a description to that in the description. I'll leave a link to that in the description. I won't leave a description of it in the description because I think I've already described it enough but I will leave a link to it in the description. I only had white with me actually but you can get it in black so I probably should have got some black but yeah, this is just a bag of the white polymorph that I've got. You can also get it in different colors and what you can also do is then blend the colors to make almost any color of the rainbow really. So yeah, I'll leave a link to the colored ones the white one and the black one as well but if you do a search for polymorph you'll definitely find it anyway. So there we go, a bit of a different video for me that was and I hope that my fellow MacGyver fans out there found that interesting and useful. And if you've used it before, leave a message in the comments and let me know all the things you've done with it because I have used it as I say on absolutely everything. There's probably some of it in almost every room of my house in some way or another whether you can see it or not it's there doing something or other. Really useful little thing and so yeah, if you have found it useful as always don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. And if you're expecting more polymorph tips then maybe you might not want to subscribe because there probably won't be too many more coming of these but for any software reviews, tutorials and things like that, then this is the place. And speaking of which I'll leave a link to some more videos over on the right hand side and until the next tech related video, have a great day.