MOTOBRICK.COM
TECHNICAL MOTOBRICK WRENCHING In Remembrance of Inge K. => The Motobrick Workshop => Topic started by: mystic red on August 11, 2012, 06:40:45 PM
-
I bought this stuff to fix a leak in a PVC pipe in our hot tub. It worked great, no more leak.
Then I started to think about the broken tab on my knee pad. Could this stuff repair/rebuild it?
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/Plast-aid/P1010569.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/Plast-aid/P1010570.jpg)
I tested the material as directed by dipping my finger in and rubbing on the knee pad. If it gets tacky you can use it as glue but it didn't. I don't know what BMW used to make these things but it's not plastic but I pressed on to see if it would work. I was going to just build up the missing area but decided to enclose/encompass the remaining portion of the tab to make sure it stuck.
Cleaned up the area with a wire brush on the dremmel, then mixed up the ch!t in the supplied cup.
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/Plast-aid/P1010577.jpg)
This stuff starts out really runny and gradually gets thicker until you can just pick it up and mold it. Here's my first attempt.
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/Plast-aid/P1010573.jpg)
Corner was too rounded so I mixed a little more and added it to the corner so the screw would have enough material to bite.
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/Plast-aid/P1010578.jpg)
Takes less than 15 min to harden and then I used my HF drill press ($39) to put the hole in it.
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/Plast-aid/P1010585.jpg)
Here it is installed. I could have added color if this tab was going to show and made it prettier on the grinder but in here no one will notice anyway.
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/Plast-aid/P1010586.jpg)
(http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd470/Motobrick/Plast-aid/P1010587.jpg)
Plast-aid (http://yhst-97336514495333.stores.yahoo.net/index.html)
Vid
Plastic Repair Kit - Plast Aid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySFkteZ8M0#)
There ya go. Now go fix your ch!t.