Plastic Welder

4nford"Live wrong and Perspire"

Since I've had several plastic Detomaso items break with age, I purchased a plastic welder from Harbor Freight tools while at POCA Las Vegas. They claim that the repair is about 90% the strength of the original material. A guy from our local chapter says that they use it at his job and it seems to work well. I haven't had time to try it out yet but will update my findings as I do.

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5/3/0711:56 PM

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lastpushbuttonMember

I have used one of those. We built square tanks out of pvc sheets to hold water. You can get burned quick! You have to balance the amount of air to control the temp. More air = lower temp. I repair plastic motorcycle parts in the body shop. I have been using Fusor products that mix 50-50 like epoxy.

5/4/075:39 AM

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lf-tp2511Member

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I have used one of those.

Did you use it to build your new "PANTERA"

5/4/076:06 AM

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lastpushbuttonMember

larry...it is all steel body..LOL

5/4/074:54 PM

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nazgulMember

i threw mine out, could not get it to work 50% of the time. those times i got it to work it it just never worked well, in fact in retrospect it worked terrible. (imho: like most hf items)

i really hope you do better than i did.

nazgul

5/6/076:35 PM

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jeff6559Member

what sorts of plastic repairs do you use it for? Bumpers? I thought most plastic repairs were gluing issues, like Coolchem?

5/6/078:31 PM

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4nford"Live wrong and Perspire"

Cool chem was like a hyped up crazy glue, didn't work for me at all. I plan to use it on stuff like cracked console kick panels and the test would be on my turn signal mount of my Mangusta which is made of plastic and has cracked. I epoxied it once but it cracked so I figured that I'd try the plastic welder and see how it works.

5/6/078:34 PM

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lastpushbuttonMember

This is the stuff that holds trucks together. Two components squeeze out of seperate tubes at the same time and flow through a mixing tube. The bonding serface must be clean and have 80 grit scratches at least. rougher is better. Sandable and paintable too! It even stays a bit flexible and you don't have to worry about melting your part.