Repair A Phone Screen With Epoxy

Alright, if you've subscribed to my channel for a while, you've probably seen my most popular video, which is a video of me

repair

ing a

phone

screen

with superglue. This video worked pretty well and got me thinking: what else can I use to

repair

a

phone

screen

? So what I have here today is my daughter's iPad. As you can see it is quite deteriorated. Lots of chips on the screen, some pieces of glass are missing completely. Now, that doesn't necessarily affect the screen itself, but I want to go ahead and complete them before I lose any more glass on this thing.

What I have here is a 5 minute gap filling

epoxy

. I bought it at Tractor Supply, it's just the Permatex brand, nothing fancy. And what I'm going to do is squeeze a little bit here on this plate. And then I'll mix it with this knife. You must make sure to mix it very well. And this is supposed to dry clear, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed because when you mix it, it almost turns white. If you hear that rustling in the background, that's my dog, Lolly. Since I don't have a decent studio to record in, so I'm in my living room.

But anyway. So we have already mixed the

epoxy

very well. And now I'm going to go over here and try to apply some of this to this screen. Let's see if I can get the camera to focus on the damaged part of the screen. Well. Now I'm going to take this epoxy that we mixed. I'll just try to fill in as many of those spaces as I can. Now, if you're not familiar with Epoxy or haven't worked with it before, don't worry, it's easy. It's just glue that you mix. It's quite forgiving, a five-minute drydown, giving you enough time to fill in any gaps you need to fill this way.

You can buy it in most stores. Anything like Walmart or whatever. I just bought this at Tractor Supply because I go there and buy gear from time to time for my knife making videos and such. So I have epoxy on hand most of the time; turns out this is a tube left over from making some scales on a knife in one of my other videos. You want to smooth it out as best as you can and don't worry about the excess, we'll scrape it off here in just a minute, just like we did in the other video, when we were working with super glue.

So that the excess is not a problem, we will scrape it until it is flat. The main thing to focus on here is making sure you fill in the blanks well. We don't want empty spaces, I want this to be fluid once it's finished. Ideally I wouldn't use a serrated knife for this, but that's all I had on hand at the moment. Then it will have to work. In fact, I have another spot here I'd like to fill. Alright. So now I have filled these cracks well. You can see the shine right there. If I can get it to reflect again.

You can see the epoxy, I know this black background doesn't really do any good for the camera. Let's see, you can see I've got epoxy there in a crack, and then there's tons of epoxy right there. Which is fine, we are simply working to seal these gaps. I want it to have a smooth surface when I'm done, so I'll let it dry for about five minutes. And this is the way I use to determine how dry my epoxy is. I like to just take the leftover pile of epoxy I have on the plate and form it into a big dough with your spatula or kitchen utensil, if that's what you're using.

And then just find a spot on the plate and stick it. Alright, now you can see I took out my razor blade. It's been about 15 minutes, so it should be nice and dry. You can see that the knife and plate are bending, but the epoxy is no longer sticky. It feels a little rubbery. But you want to be able to scrape, if I do this without cutting my finger. You probably can't see that on camera, but you won't be able to split this. If you cut it and it's rubbery or something, it's not dry. Because the last thing you want is to end up staining your screen more.

So what I'm going to do now is take this razor blade and you want a nice sharp razor blade, preferably a new one. and we're going to scrape the screen. You can see down here, these are fingerprints, where I was using the epoxy a minute ago, and I'll use them to demonstrate what we're trying to do. This is our goal, to take this razor blade and just scrape it off. It will not damage your glass. This is Gorilla Glass, most common phones nowadays, anyway, are made of Gorilla Glass and it is much stronger than this razor blade.

It's not going to cut off your phone or anything like that. So scraping it across the screen will only clean it. That's why you want a nice new razor blade, preferably because you want a nice, flat razor. Now I'm going to start with this corner up here. You can see that the epoxy is nice and hard. I can scratch it, so it dries to an almost plastic texture. You will have to be slow and methodical with this. You just want to scrape underneath that. But you're not trying to remove the epoxy from the screen, you want to leave what fell into the cracks there, while you remove the other pieces.

And you end up with this movie. That's garbage. But now we have a nice divet repaired on the screen. You can see it there, you can barely feel it when you run your finger over it. Now I know it's still visible, but that will help hold the glass together and prevent it from separating or cracking further. Now we're going to do the same thing here, with this larger area. Okay, and you can see where the filling went in, it's nice and dry under there. He filled in the cracks beautifully. And of course, the iPad still works.

Now, I wouldn't recommend this solution to cover the screen, but on many phones and almost all tablets you will have this border around the screen and that's what it's for. A lot of times when you drop a tablet, and in this case my daughter is five years old, she carries this thing everywhere and it drops and things like that, and this is what happens. No, it doesn't look perfect, but it fills in the gaps and protects it from further damage. Now I don't have to worry about this separating further and causing more damage. Now, if you like this solution, go ahead and subscribe to my channel, because in a future video I will use a tube of specially formulated epoxy called glass resin.

If you are doing this repair we just did, you can use any type of epoxy. I recommend that you find something that is clear. And he'll say it's clear, like a diamond, something like that. And you should use it, but subscribe to the channel, and in a future video I'll use a tube of glass resin, which is similar to epoxy, but is actually made to fill gaps in glass. It's the same thing they use to fix car windshields. Ideally, it should have the same level of refractivity as the glass itself. So when you put it in the gaps, you're not supposed to be able to see it at all.

So stay tuned, I'll post that video soon. And if this helped you, leave a like on the video. Thanks for watching.