How to Repair broken Plastic-PET, ABS, Thermoplastic Details.

Every one of us, in his childhood, had a favorite game or toy. During the hundreds of hours in games, playing with this toy, often the last is broke down. Conception, to buy a new one or to repair, has two aspects – sides:

1. Buys a new toy is a perfect variant in case of a toy is а irreparably damaged. The Broken Favorite Plastic Toy goes to the garbage.

It isn’t Environment-friendly, but Nature, in this case, has no choice.

2. Small cracks or lapse of material, who can be repaired in many manners.

It is the Environment-friendly.

Today, we will talk about the ways to repair, cracked ThermoPlastic Plastic Enclosure:

On twisting, pressure or onset, the resulting cracks in the plastic are most often long, with one “ray”,
The cracks, caused by the release of the land are long, sometimes single, sometimes with a few “rays”.
Damages on a plastic enclosure, produced by impact to, e.g. sharp edge, can produce a hole, where, whole plastic pieces are missing.

When we are talking about repairing of the resulting cracks, we will start with less problematic single ray crack – produced by twisting, pressure or onset…

Necessary Materials and Tools:

Fume Extractor or Good Ventilation – More preferable is to be working on open air,
Soldering Iron with adjustable working temperature and not very thin soldering iron tip.
Different Iron Tips:
- The preferably is a cheap, out-of-use soldering iron tip…,
- Because, plastics emits cancerogenic fume and active substances – capable of breaking, or damaging the Iron Tip’s coating.
Metalic – Copper or Cantal wire with 0.2 – 0.3 mm diameter,
Pliers, Cutting Pliers,
Comb,
Optional, thin Teflon – PTFE – foil.