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Plastic welding
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:05 pm
by ZXR750
Does any one know of a good plastic welder in Sydney? I took a chunk out of my fairing geting it off the trailer the other day.
Or is it easy to do yourself??
Any info will be greatly appriciated.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:05 pm
by blackninja
you can do it yourself with a heatgun and the correct plastic rods if your not to worried what it looks like, it will take some practice to do a good job of it.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:42 pm
by Paulie
Dude call Mototech at Smithfield. They plastic welded the fairings on my zxr400 the other week. Can't remember the phone number sorry
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:02 pm
by bonester
Where can you get the plastic rods to weld with from? AFAIK you can use a soldering iron and these rods to plastic weld but I dunno where you can get them from.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:03 pm
by Daisy
If you can get hold of some broken fairing thats the same plastic, you can cut it into strips.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:09 pm
by Burky
Body filler is handy also if it's not too bad
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:14 pm
by mike-s
just try some plastex, thats a helluva lot easier than solder heating it and welding it.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:24 pm
by Rossi
Plastic welding is carried out using a hot air gun and it is preferable to use broken bits of fairing as filler material.
You can knock together a "plastic welder" using a paint stripping hot air gun and reducing the "working" end using copper plumbing fittings e.g. 50mm to 25mm reducer - 25mm to 15 mm internal reducer - 15mm to 10mm internal reducer
works a treat for short duration jobs BUT will overheat and trip out if used for too long due to the restricted airflow