Proper EARLY rain tray- Success? NO!, Saga continues |
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Proper EARLY rain tray- Success? NO!, Saga continues |
Pat Garvey |
Jul 26 2007, 09:31 PM
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Do I or don't I...........? Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States |
I've been searching for 4 years now for an early rain tray. I have my original, but it is trash because it split at one of the mountings. And, there is NO glue that will put it back together. Porsche used some sort of imperious plastic for these things!
I just counted them up (the responses indicating that the HAVE ONE & IT'S PERFECT) 87! Guess how many of the 87 had the proper part - 3! Guess how many had a useable part? ZERO! Isn't there someone out there with a flat bottomed rain tray that they want to make some money on? Yeah, I know, this doesn't belong on this forum. I'm desperate & about to give up! Please ..... help me! You can flame away after I find one..... Never mind - doesn't belong on this forum. Sorry. Desperate! Pat |
sww914 |
Dec 15 2007, 11:57 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,439 Joined: 4-June 06 Member No.: 6,146 Region Association: None |
A body shop that I used to work at had a plastic welder, before the repair epoxies were as good as they are now. It was basically an electric soldering iron with a shoe shaped like a regular household iron, but it was only 1" long and 1/2" wide. It had a hole in the middle with a small tube brazed to the shoe for adding material to the middle of the heated area. It came with little sticks of plastic- PP, PE, Urethane, etc., like you get with a hot glue gun, but only 4-5mm dia. We would spray it with Pam so that the plastic wouldn't stick to the shoe.
We fixed a lot of plastic bumpers with that thing. I had an Ultratorch, a butane soldering iron, with a similar shoe, but no hole and little tube. I used it several times to fix broken plastic things over the years, but it finally died and I trashed it. I think that with any soldering iron with a shoe like that and a lot of practice you'll be able to fix a rain tray. I understand that you have several to practice on. I even fixed a 4" gash in a kayak with it once, it came out pretty good after I gently warmed it with a propane torch to blend the edges of the repair. |
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