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Plastic welding - ChristoT - 15-11-13
I found this on the ZXR forum. The fairing repaired may interest some...
EDIT: Pics reuploaded
Re: Plastic welding - Fuzzy - 15-11-13
Found what? Can't see it.
Might be doing some plastic welding soon so would be interested
Re: Plastic welding - ChristoT - 15-11-13
(15-11-13, 12:38 PM)Fuzzy link Wrote: Found what? Can't see it.
Might be doing some plastic welding soon so would be interested
Fuzzy - you can't see those two huge images? As for what it is, it's describing a very expensive plastic welding kit set (cable tie and a soldering iron, anyone? :lol ). I just noticed it was a Fazer nosecone.
Will try re-uploading.
Re: Plastic welding - bozboz - 15-11-13
Good fazer find there christo but like you say, cable ties and soldering iron all the way!
Re: Plastic welding - apage16 - 15-11-13
I've just done some plastic welding on the cheap.
I'll post about it in my ongoing thread soon! Worked pretty well.
Re: Plastic welding - Fuzzy - 15-11-13
(15-11-13, 12:54 PM)ChristoT link Wrote: [quote author=Fuzzy link=topic=10720.msg113291#msg113291 date=1384515531]
Found what? Can't see it.
Might be doing some plastic welding soon so would be interested
Fuzzy - you can't see those two huge images? As for what it is, it's describing a very expensive plastic welding kit set (cable tie and a soldering iron, anyone? :lol ). I just noticed it was a Fazer nosecone.
Will try re-uploading.
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See it now, thanks! Couldn't earlier for some reason.
Cables ties and soldering iron - is it as simple to do as it sounds?
Re: Plastic welding - ChristoT - 15-11-13
(15-11-13, 06:21 PM)Fuzzy link Wrote: [quote author=ChristoT link=topic=10720.msg113296#msg113296 date=1384516470]
[quote author=Fuzzy link=topic=10720.msg113291#msg113291 date=1384515531]
Found what? Can't see it.
Might be doing some plastic welding soon so would be interested
Fuzzy - you can't see those two huge images? As for what it is, it's describing a very expensive plastic welding kit set (cable tie and a soldering iron, anyone? :lol ). I just noticed it was a Fazer nosecone.
Will try re-uploading.
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See it now, thanks! Couldn't earlier for some reason.
Cables ties and soldering iron - is it as simple to do as it sounds?
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Pretty much! The cable tie acts as the filler - but you need to make sure both sides of the break melt to, and fuse. It'll look butt-ugly halfway through - before you add body filler and paint.
A bit of advice:
- Wait for the iron to heat up properly. If not, you're mucking around, making a mess & getting nowhere
- Go slowly. It's easy to stick yet another hole through your fairing by being overly enthusiastic
- Be patient! The chap you fixed up my fairing last time did 2 runs with the soldering iron, 3 runs with various grades of sandpaper, and 2 runs with bodyfiller. It gave a great result but took about an hour for a few small cracks. And he was an expert at it!
Back to the OP - has anyone seen a fazer in that orange before? Respray?
Re: Plastic welding - Fuzzy - 15-11-13
Thanks Christo, might give it a go as I have a spare fairing that could do with some tlc.
As for the fairing, it looks like the standard red but it's somehow come out looking orange in the scanned image
Re: Plastic welding - ChristoT - 15-11-13
(15-11-13, 07:06 PM)Fuzzy link Wrote: Thanks Christo, might give it a go as I have a spare fairing that could do with some tlc.
As for the fairing, it looks like the standard red but it's somehow come out looking orange in the scanned image
I thought that too, but the Halfrauds logo bottom right seems to be the right colour? Weird...