I have a TD-350 inline fan with a broken fixing bracket / reducer. It is hard plastic that is under some slight bending force when fixed. Superglue was previously tried but the contact area is poor and the joint easily failed when stressed. Is there any adhesive that can fix it ? I don't know if solvent weld would work - I went to my shed but my old bottle has dried up !
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Simon.
If the plastic is thermo-softening (as opposed to thermo-setting), you may be able to bond it by momentarily melting the two surfaces with a flame and then quickly pushing them together.
The only sort of glue I've used for this sort of thing is Araldite and often with some mechanical addition from some other material on the joint if there is room for it. Bloody plastic engineering again. Brian
My term for it is Plasticrap. Even a £27k Renault Grande Espace was made from the stuff inside and a lot of the ouutside.
**Sorry I'm late with this reply. I sent it before, but it was a victim of Demon's cessation of news. Don't buy Vodaphone.**
My Keter plastic shed's RH door blew off in a gale 2 years ago, breaking off the small spigot that formed the hinge. I roughed the whole area up as much as I could and mixed a good dollop of decent (SP Systems or West) epoxy with milled wood fibre as the filler.
It looks pretty ugly, but it has worked well in spite of the bending forces that are involved. Things like closing the door on stuff falling behind it and so on.
I should have painted it. It is starting to turn brown the way epoxy does in sunlight.
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