[spilled coffee prank/prop]

Step 2 [the process]

Please keep in mind that you will be handling HOT objects and take the proper safety precautions before proceeding. This includes adequate ventilation and using safety glasses where applicable.


This is pretty easy. All I did was microwave the coffee cup with three glue sticks in it. The coffee cup got HOT and that is what ultimately ended up melting the glue in the cup. I started out with one glue stick in the cup, and added sticks (3 total) until I got the amount of "spilled coffee" that I wanted.

I don't have any specific timetable here because depending on the temp that your glue melts, the thickness of the stick, and your microwave wattage, times will vary. I checked the melting glue each minute that it was in the micro until it was a puddle in the bottom of my cup. Once it starts melting you can mix it or push the stick against the side of the cup for more contact with the HOT ceramic.

If you come across brown colored hot gun glue sticks you can melt those and skip the rest of this page.

The only relatively tricky part of the process was adding the coloring. I added mine in stages because I wasn't sure how dark I wanted it to get. When I added the coloring it tended to boil on contact due to the high melting point of the hot glue being around 400*f (according to the package). So after i added my coloring (about a dropperfull for each glue stick) I mixed it immediately. Lots of bubbles formed in the glue due to the liquid coloring boiling on contact. After that I put it in the micro for a minute and cooked it some more. If you do this a couple times the bubbles should be mostly gone.

Don't worry about getting the glue bubble free, most coffee with cream has tiny bubbles that form on the top layer. Besides, unless you have giant bubbles nobody will notice them until they realize that it's fake.

Comments

[VinZent777]

the easiest way to melt the glue sticks is putting the cup whit the glu sticks in a pot with water in the fire, you can see how much the glu sticks melts and add the color at the same time