Welding Plastic Parts

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Ding

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Anybody ever welded the plastic belly pans. Did it work well? What tool did you use?

Anybody know the material of the belly pans. I really know very little about plastic.
 

I did using a plastic welder. It's a tube that heats your compressed air as it passes through giving you a really hot stream of air. You want to use plastic filler of the same type as what you are welding. I used milk jugs cut into strips. I've had good luck in doing 2 gas tanks and a belly pan but they weren't attractive looking when done. It did not work well on dirt bike fenders.
 
Ding said:
Anybody ever welded the plastic belly pans. Did it work well? What tool did you use?

Anybody know the material of the belly pans. I really know very little about plastic.
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We had one at work and I used it once. It was a hot iron type that had a hole in it to run the filler material through. You would chamfer the edges of the two pieces (butt weld) and run the iron down the crack while manually feeding the plastic rod through the hole in the iron. As someone else mentioned, it wasn't purdy but it did hold up pretty well.

I've tried just heating the edges to the melting point and attach but the plastic has a tendency of curling when it get hot. I ended up with a big mess.
 
I fix plastic hoods and bumper covers in my shop everyday. Take a plastic welder and throw it in the trash. The best product on the market to fix any kind of palstic is Fusor 100EZ. You heat it and kind of bake it on with a heat lamp or heat gun. Sold at Autobody suppy stores only. I have fixed plastic Polaris hoods that were in pieces and they still look perfect 5 years later. Jeff Wurl
 
Good input guys, keep it coming. I found the Fuzor 100EZ for $39 online. Going to wait until I hear from others though. My heat gun died last year, so need to another one of those too.
 
Ding said:
Good input guys, keep it coming. I found the Fuzor 100EZ for $39 online. Going to wait until I hear from others though. My heat gun died last year, so need to another one of those too.
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I looked at BM's link and pulled the instructions. Looked to me like a heat gun would work for setting the filled area but the final coat requires heating the area at 180-F for an hour. Might want to put a heat lamp on the X-mas list instead of or in addition to the heat gun.
 
bluemonster1 said:
there you go ding..now we all know what you'll be getting for xmas.A new helmet would be nice..but we all know that won't happen...lol
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Now what's wrong with my ... er Johnny's ... helmet?

I get lot's of looks in it, folks are just jealous that they don't have one.
 
snomofo said:
I looked at BM's link and pulled the instructions. Looked to me like a heat gun would work for setting the filled area but the final coat requires heating the area at 180-F for an hour. Might want to put a heat lamp on the X-mas list instead of or in addition to the heat gun.
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Yah, I was reading that. Another concern I have is the type of plastic. I think this stuff is more for rigid plastics. I don't think hoods are the same plastic as Yamaha belly pans, but I really don't know much about plastics.
 
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