We settled for wax or pine sap and we were darn glad to get it.

  • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
    12·
    7 hours ago

    Pine pitch is actually pretty strong stuff, but nowhere near as convenient as picking up a tube of glue from a store.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    14·
    8 hours ago

    Of all the technological change I’ve lived to see, glue and tape have improved the most.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      It’s actually funny going back and watching early episodes of The New Yankee Workshop and hearing Norm brag about the “new” glues that were coming available. “This is a one-part glue, you don’t have to mix it up, it’s ready to use in the bottle, it’s water proof and it cleans up with water! I wouldn’t have even tried doing this myself without these modern glues.” They avoided showing brand names and such on the show; Norm was usually careful to hold the glue bottle with the back facing the camera, but he’s clearly holding a bottle of Titebond 2, with it’s blue cap.

      And I mean, yeah. imagine building furniture without PVA glue, you change how you think.

    • rainrain@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      8·
      8 hours ago

      There’s this tape called frog tape. It’s quite amazing. Uses powerful science

      And gorilla tape can remove your skin

      And silicone tape fuses to itself molecularly

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        8 hours ago

        Doesn’t matter how good thing have gotten when you choose to be cheap and use the wrong stuff.

        Same thing with their leaking displays because they ignored the extreme heat minimums real car manufacturers used.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      8 hours ago

      It’s the glue definition of reversed Theseus.

      We started with a sticky mess. Now we have strong adhesive. The technology evolved from the one to the other but are they still the same thing?