Semi-insane list of suggested uses from the Official Site:
Leave note on door
Display children’s school awards and notices on fridge
Attach bay leaves (dried) on underside of canister Lids - prevents weevils.
Keep pictures square
Display pretty plates
Remove lint from clothes
Hold candles in place in holders
Secure dog food bowls on floor
Use Blu Tack to remove dust in awkward places
Holds and positions scenery in fish tanks
Party time put up decorations
Dropped screws or nails easily picked up using Blu Tack
Attach screw to screwdriver to get to hard places
Hide the spare key
Attach a paper plate with Blu Tack under Paint pail to catch the drips
Use a blob of Blu Tack to seal opened cartridges
Use to reduce noise vibration by putting Blu Tack under stereo speakers
Secure air conditioner front panel so it doesn’t rattle
Stop door from banging by placing a little in door recess at top.
Toll money attached to motorbike
Great modelling material – doesn’t dry out
Posters on walls
Holds down paints pots to prevent spillage
Holds tracing paper in place for school projects
Holds models in place while decorating
Hold children’s figurines in place on the window sill
Display charts, graphs, maps and timetables on windows
Blob of Blu Tack on the white board to hold markers in place
Stick paper sheets up during training sessions
Keep overhead transparencies in place on overhead
Hold mouse pad down
Phone down
Display important notices on walls/windows
Display family photos on computer screen
Clean computer keys with a blob of Blu Tack
― JimD, Thursday, 29 May 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)
Weevils? Motorbike toll money? Really?
"Display family photos on computer screen" is probably my favourite.
― JimD, Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)
This list is like one of those creativity exercise where you have two minutes to come up with as many uses as possible for a paperclip, and people come up with answers like "melt down several billion paperclips and use the metal for the hull of a spaceship" and "use a paperclip to peel an orange".
Hold candles in place in holders
Doesn't work - Blu Tack melts and candle falls over!
Use Blu Tack to remove dust in awkward places
How do you then remove the shreds of Blu Tack from awkward places?
Holds and positions scenery in fish tanks
Doesn't work - it goes gooey when immersed in water.
Dropped screws or nails easily picked up using Blu Tack
Or instead, why not use your f***ing fingers?
Great modelling material – doesn’t dry out
As a kid I had a lot of Blu Tack collected - ie, stolen - from various places, but never enough to model anything significant with.
They missed out some obvious ones:
"Bung up sink overflow and leave tap running to flood the second floor bathrooms and cause water damage to most of the building."
"Steal school's entire supply of Blu Tack from the stationary cupboard, roll into a ball, and stuff up the exhaust of hated teacher's car."
"Sell squares of it to the gullible kids, telling them that it's blueberry flavoured chewing gum."
― snoball, Thursday, 29 May 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)
Dropped screws or nails easily picked up using Blu Tack
I use this technique all the time when i lose a tiny screw inside when taking a computer/laptop apart.. a tiny blob of blu tack on the end of a paperclip works every time...
― Jack Battery-Pack, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:05 (seventeen years ago)