I recently mentioned a temperature sensitive nail varnish that could be used to detect hot components. This video is about that varnish and other ones that are useful for technical tasks. Here's a starter search on eBay for the colour changing gels. The most vivid red/yellow one will have a number like 5718. They sell them in multi-colour packs or as single colour bottles for a few dollars. You may find it useful to buy a small UV nail curing lamp too.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_nkw=fairyglo+color+changing&LH_PrefLoc=2&_sop=15
If you want to buy glow in the dark pigment then the keywords are Strontium Aluminate. Quite expensive for the proper stuff, but a little goes a long way.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_nkw=strontium+aluminate&_sop=15
Choose the green/yellow or green/blue colour for highest intensity.
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14 thoughts on “Technical uses for nail varnish.”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tbj Tbj says:

    I don't think this will help yall over there much.
    But a home remedy for red bugs was putting clear nail polish on the infected areas.
    And I have used my daughter's neon green glow in the dark nail polish to paint my front sights on duty and carry handguns.
    It makes the sight quick and easy to see.
    She didn't like the polish and it doesn't take much to use on the sights so a bottle has lasted about 15 years.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dinco422 says:

    omfg that finger… =)) looks like you drop some ketchup / mustard combination on it after eating a hot dog and didn't bother to clean it up xD

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dinco422 says:

    I use nail polish stuff for screws… like lockbond 🙂 works great, learned it from my dad

    who knew these products were actually invented for men xD another great chinese product.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Elizabeth Dean says:

    Husband uses the concrete one on his model railway layout a lot.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lucian Papuc says:

    I don't know why I'm watching this, but I'm fascinated

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alex McD says:

    Not sure how I learned something about cosmetics from your channel, but I'm getting uv curing nail polish immediately. I HATE waiting for it to dry. Thanks!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Handy Fox says:

    Oh I have to watch this. I have this stuff all over the house. Some even magnetized.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars wbfaulk says:

    Be aware that many nail polishes are made from nitrocellulose, which is aggressively flammable, even when dry.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Geneva Simmonds says:

    you need to shake the bottle.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Duane Antor says:

    Some great tips. Thank you.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Darren Stone says:

    I was going to ask if Clive could come and paint our shed. On reflection of seeing him paint his nail I think i'll see if Stevie Wonder is free instead 😅

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars channelsixtysix066 says:

    Clive, the things you subject yourself to, all in the name of science.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Wynkin de Worde says:

    Uranium glass has been used on valves for a long time to resist high temperatures.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Wynkin de Worde says:

    I bought a bunch of fluorescing powders through Ebay from China and used them with clear nail varnish on some glass lamps. One fluoresces with an ordinary bulb for 45 seconds when the lamp is turned off. I found my first pink/green uranium glass last weekend it has a huge amount of pitchblende. Some of my 19th century uranium glass is also high in uranium oxides.

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