Plastic welding

[ChristoT]

I found this on the ZXR forum. The fairing repaired may interest some... 

EDIT: Pics reuploaded

[Fuzzy]

Found what? Can't see it.

Might be doing some plastic welding soon so would be interested 

[ChristoT]

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.

[bozboz]

Good fazer find there christo but like you say, cable ties and soldering iron all the way!

[apage16]

I've just done some plastic welding on the cheap.

I'll post about it in my ongoing thread soon! Worked pretty well.

[Fuzzy]

[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?

[ChristoT]

[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?

[Fuzzy]

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

[ChristoT]

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...