Turn it the other way if at all possible. The pins should line up with the crack, not span them. Span them like you did, you only have one wire crossing the gap. Line the pins up, and you have 5 wires crossing the gap, each with an embedded loop providing hold. Plus you hold more distance to boot, you'll get more repair from the same supply of clips.
While this is not a bad fix, I find that the special black powder with glue works much better. Don't know what it is called but I have glued many plastics with that stuff and after that they break elsewhere 🙂 I use Visbella Speedyfix, but I think any other brand would be great.
I love these things! I've burned through about 1,200 "staples" in the last year "welding" all manner of plastic bumpers, hood, cowls, and other garbage back together on trashed equipment. Well worth the $25 investment.
Alnother tool most people don't consider, "Hot Glue", is actually the plastic equivalent of welding. You need to use the industrial high temperature stuff but the basic principle isn't just spreading glue on top of things, hot glue is supposed to melt and mix with the plastic being glued together.
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Its the same way when we recoil atomizer vape and then heat it to broken plastic right?
Perhaps turn the wire 90 degrees and run it along the crack.
Turn it the other way if at all possible. The pins should line up with the crack, not span them.
Span them like you did, you only have one wire crossing the gap.
Line the pins up, and you have 5 wires crossing the gap, each with an embedded loop providing hold. Plus you hold more distance to boot, you'll get more repair from the same supply of clips.
Why are you grunting so hard when clipping the legs off? Are you really in such a bad shape? Holy hell
While this is not a bad fix, I find that the special black powder with glue works much better. Don't know what it is called but I have glued many plastics with that stuff and after that they break elsewhere 🙂 I use Visbella Speedyfix, but I think any other brand would be great.
nice, maybe a 2 part epoxy over the top if its not just a "lasts long enough for customer to forget you when it breaks again"
It Only works on Thermoplast plastik but Not on duroplast or elastomer
I Have same Tool. 30€ from Ali, works well
You're fired!!
I've been eyeballing these plastic welders and I guess I need to just get one. My poor car is very old and brittle
What is this tool called
I love these things! I've burned through about 1,200 "staples" in the last year "welding" all manner of plastic bumpers, hood, cowls, and other garbage back together on trashed equipment. Well worth the $25 investment.
This is a lot better than using cyanoacrylate and sodium bicarbonate
This is a good first step to converting the part into metal. Just need a couple hundred more. 😛
Okay. Now plastic weld the joint.
how well dose his work? i always melt the plastic and weld a new plastic on top it but its still fragile
It is a good idea to twist it at the end so that the clip cant come out the same way you put it in
Isn’t life so thrilling.
I use it in addition with APP 50 polyurethane mastic. Hardens really well and saved me some bucks on my Alfa 916 Spider.
Witchcraft!
It's good to make things stay in place… but get them laminated properly, please!
You didn't test the strength of that fix nearly well enough.
You could try solvent welding it, also this method should work only on thermoplastics, thermosets and elastomers degrade significantly when melted
Not legal for insurance repairs
Alnother tool most people don't consider, "Hot Glue", is actually the plastic equivalent of welding.
You need to use the industrial high temperature stuff but the basic principle isn't just spreading glue on top of things, hot glue is supposed to melt and mix with the plastic being glued together.
Yes, because you're embedding the wire reinforcement, I'd probably reinforce it more with another keyed-in layer of mesh reinforcement over the top.
Yup! If you don't have that fancy iron, then just cut and bend a paperclip and melt it in with a soldering iron!
Works like a charm!