General Note: any epoxy or polyester resins are not compatible with ABS and will not stick (for long) while they will harden and seem to work fine , eventually they will fail .Smoky said:two part epoxy's that mix in the tube are great but you can only use the tube once as it hardens inside and its junk.
Agree. With building cigar-box dulcimers (stringed instruments) I found common epoxies had no flex. They work fine, maybe even great, on non-flexible joints... especially when temperature doesn't change much... but add the flex & the stuff cracks. The ABS fairings of course DO flex & get some pretty big changes in temps.FOG said:General Note: any epoxy or polyester resins are not compatible with ABS and will not stick (for long) while they will harden and seem to work fine , eventually they will fail .Smoky said:two part epoxy's that mix in the tube are great but you can only use the tube once as it hardens inside and its junk.
The ABS glue will meld with the parent material and adhere well. It take longer to harden but it will make a permanent bond. I have used it on the exterior surfaces as a filler too. here is where the biggest problem arises. It shrinks. Long after I had finished painting some parts the areas I had filled with it shank some so as to make the repairs visible. If you use it for structural repair and Bondo for filler you'll be fine.
FOG
is this the same cement used for pvc water pipes, right? I think I have a couple bottles of that somewhere, and the purple junk.FOG said:Your fairings are made from ABS plastic. you can get pvc/abs CEMENT AT WALMART. On the inside scrap off the paint and dribble a line of the cement over the crack. You can hold the parts together on the outside with tape. If you can get a piece of scrap fairing gluing it across the crack will reinforce it stronger than new.
FOG
Yes , be sure it say ABS too on the can. They used to market ABS stuff alone that worked much better but I haven't been able to find it for a long time. At least not in Home De Poo. Maybe an old fashion hardware store (if you can find one) will still have it. In our world where mass marketing is the rule, most all the little guys have succumbed to the big box retailers where English is the Second language.jlmay said:is this the same cement used for pvc water pipes, right? I think I have a couple bottles of that somewhere, and the purple junk.FOG said:Your fairings are made from ABS plastic. you can get pvc/abs CEMENT AT WALMART. On the inside scrap off the paint and dribble a line of the cement over the crack. You can hold the parts together on the outside with tape. If you can get a piece of scrap fairing gluing it across the crack will reinforce it stronger than new.
FOG
They sell the 2 part ABS cement or glue at CarQuest .FOG said:Yes , be sure it say ABS too on the can. They used to market ABS stuff alone that worked much better but I haven't been able to find it for a long time. At least not in Home De Poo. Maybe an old fashion hardware store (if you can find one) will still have it. In our world where mass marketing is the rule, most all the little guys have succumbed to the big box retailers where English is the Second language.jlmay said:is this the same cement used for pvc water pipes, right? I think I have a couple bottles of that somewhere, and the purple junk.FOG said:Your fairings are made from ABS plastic. you can get pvc/abs CEMENT AT WALMART. On the inside scrap off the paint and dribble a line of the cement over the crack. You can hold the parts together on the outside with tape. If you can get a piece of scrap fairing gluing it across the crack will reinforce it stronger than new.
FOG
FOG
I found a can at Lowes that was marked for ABS only, Oatey's (sp?) brand. When working with plastics I'm not confortable using a one-size-fits-all product.FOG said:Yes , be sure it say ABS too on the can. They used to market ABS stuff alone that worked much better but I haven't been able to find it for a long time. At least not in Home De Poo. Maybe an old fashion hardware store (if you can find one) will still have it. In our world where mass marketing is the rule, most all the little guys have succumbed to the big box retailers where English is the Second language.
FOG
Yep that's the stuff. I may have to break a long standing objection to lowes. (see my rant in the off topic section "English as a Second Language")damarble said:I found a can at Lowes that was marked for ABS only, Oatey's (sp?) brand. When working with plastics I'm not confortable using a one-size-fits-all product.FOG said:Yes , be sure it say ABS too on the can. They used to market ABS stuff alone that worked much better but I haven't been able to find it for a long time. At least not in Home De Poo. Maybe an old fashion hardware store (if you can find one) will still have it. In our world where mass marketing is the rule, most all the little guys have succumbed to the big box retailers where English is the Second language.
FOG