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| eastbay851 |
 Jan 4 2011, 01:33 PM
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anybody who has a piece of broken plastic with which to deal on your car (or, i learned from continually getting off my motorcycles before they were stopped.) the best way to deal with plastic is to use baking soda and super thin super-glue. fill crack or chips with baking soda and apply glue. the preferred applicator here is a piece of tube filament. i get mine from a local hobby shop who makes their own super-glue but fly tie supply places have it. you can build up (in thin coats of baking soda) to 1/4" thick or more. i have made full loops with this method for the cowling of a motorcycle, dropped the bike again and the loop survived while the rest of the piece suffered severe trauma. one of the advantages to using this method... makes no difference what type of plastic it is. super glue does not discriminate.
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| Valy |
Jan 5 2011, 12:02 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,677 Joined: 6-April 10 From: Sunnyvale, CA Member No.: 11,573 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(eastbay851 @ Jan 4 2011, 11:33 AM)  anybody who has a piece of broken plastic with which to deal on your car (or, i learned from continually getting off my motorcycles before they were stopped.) the best way to deal with plastic is to use baking soda and super thin super-glue. fill crack or chips with baking soda and apply glue. the preferred applicator here is a piece of tube filament. i get mine from a local hobby shop who makes their own super-glue but fly tie supply places have it. you can build up (in thin coats of baking soda) to 1/4" thick or more. i have made full loops with this method for the cowling of a motorcycle, dropped the bike again and the loop survived while the rest of the piece suffered severe trauma. one of the advantages to using this method... makes no difference what type of plastic it is. super glue does not discriminate. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) I've been doing that for years. Even my dash-board got the soda+superglue treatment. Two remarks: it seems that thicker superglue is better, like the gel one. And never drop superglue on uncured soda - it will form a bubble. |
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eastbay851 fixing plastic parts (this case the relay board cover) Jan 4 2011, 01:33 PM
KELTY360 Interesting. Do you sprinkle the baking soda on th... Jan 4 2011, 01:46 PM Tom_T :wttc:
Actually - the "best way" is to... Jan 4 2011, 02:11 PM
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