Hello, Does anyone know any thing about or have experience with plastic welding? Thanks for your time.
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Not all will weld together, some look like they do, but the heating process actually made the plastic seem more brittle.
I spent days on a ATV body, than weeks with fiber glass. I had to try something as the wife would not let me purchase a new one. Cost more to ship it to me, so a no go.
So all lasted a few years, now all is just separating and falling a part.
Lesson of all this, should just buy a new body regardless of the cost, or go with out a body.
You let your wife tell you what you can and can't do???
Me too :blush:
Open for debate, but she does seem to win more of the discussions than I do, LOL
I, myself, wanted it bad and was seriously thinking of buying it, I had the money than, but yes she talked me out of it.
That was years ago, wonder what all cost now ? I will have to look into it and see if the local repair shop could order cheaper than me.
I have been winning all discussion on the Trike, yep I am up on this, she does not understand much of what I am doing, but does understand it is needed ( that is what I keep telling her ) and of course anything to do with rider safety is a instant " okay ". Actually she is the one who talked me into buying the Trike, so getting it fixed up and road worthy has not been to hard. I just wonder about the new paint job I want, LOL
I have been winning all discussion on the Trike, yep I am up on this, she does not understand much of what I am doing, but does understand it is needed ( that is what I keep telling her ) and of course anything to do with rider safety is a instant " okay ". Actually she is the one who talked me into buying the Trike, so getting it fixed up and road worthy has not been to hard. I just wonder about the new paint job I want, LOL
That might have worked better than all that I did, but it was my real first time playing with the stuff.
it was to busted up to do anything with other than garbage, but I am a tight ass and I had to show myself that I could do it.
I thought all was prepared correctly for painting, not even that seems to last, so a waste of time for some and a disappointment for me.
The plastic on my trike has several cracks, they keep showing up. It is a 1986 Suzuki Cavalcade. It is brittle and easy to break. I have tried to glue different materials to the back side of the crack and fill the crack with glue, but that does not work. I have seen posts where a soldering iron is used, by making a little "ditch" behind the cracked plastic, and then filling up the "ditch" with either melted plastic or glue. I am not good at this plastic welding, so I just keep patching up the best I know how, with some touch up paint.
Most all the "poly's" weld good. Polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, ect.
A hot air welder does good but slow.
Most bodywork like on a 4 wheeler or motorcycle is Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. ABS dont weld the same. It has to be chemically welded. The easiest way I have done is with abs plastic glue from the hardware store.