Plastic Welding Complany???

[DarrenSV650S]

I'm looking for a plastic welding company near me to sort a crack in my nose fairing. Do you know of any companies?

Thanks

Alkamoto have a site on ebay-failing that get a soldering iron and some plastic tie wraps and diy.

husky

[northwind]

Yeah, I just do my own too, though I used old fairing panels as the welding rod rather than zip ties. But Big Al is a plastic welding master, he might be able to take it on if you drop him a PM.

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by northwind

Yeah, I just do my own too, though I used old fairing panels as the welding rod rather than zip ties. But Big Al is a plastic welding master, he might be able to take it on if you drop him a PM.

No Big Al is far too busy sorting my stuff out


I've done it before with a soldering iron and it worked ok like northy i used some old bits of fairing as it seemed to take better than using cable ties

[DarrenSV650S]

Did you apply the plastic to the back of the fairing or the front?
I take it you just sand it down after?

try Plastex, works a treat and dead easy.

[northwind]

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Did you apply the plastic to the back of the fairing or the front?
I take it you just sand it down after?

For best results you want to do it full thickness... With plastic welding the panel really is basically as strong as it was before the break (mine are stronger, probably, they're not neat but they're rock solid). I sand down the visible surfaces and just leave the inside, though you can sand those too if you want. My front right panel has a massive plastic weld in it, this is how it looked when I first stitched it crudely for track work:



Since then I decided to tidy it up, filler and paint it, then crashed it twice and the weld hasn't rebroken (though the panel did break badly elsewhere!) This is hte same panel after being hit in the same place, pretty hard... I ground off all the filler

[DarrenSV650S]

Cheers northy

Plastex +1

[DarrenSV650S]

Originally Posted by Xan173

Plastex +1

Ahh so thats what it is. That looks quite easy, might give it a go