How to repair/glue ABS tool case?

You can buy ABS glues foe model building

Might help?

IN fact halt the plastic pipes you buy are ABS. That or PVC. From memory te same solvents glue both..so plumbers cement for plastic waste pipes and some extra ABS/PVC sheet, possibly cut from a scrap pipe and unfolded in the vicinity of a heat gun or oven, should do the job.

I HAVE has some success in models, reinforcing vac formed ABS cowls with glass cloth and superglue, or even epoxy.

A quick and dirty modellers fix would be to get some micropore tape from Boots, and some medium superglue from a model shop, stick the micropore across the weakness and then slosh the superglue all over it.

If you want to etch the surface first, use solvent weld thinners or buy dope thinners from a model shop..its all largely MEK. (Methyl Ethyl Ketone, whatever that is)

I believe MEK was banned because it was found to be a carcinogen or something equally nasty. It has been replaced by dichloromethane (dimethylene chloride).

One source is Plastic Weld Cement or Plasweld from EMA Model Supplies:

No, PVC and ABS use different solvent weld glues. One "wrong" way round usually works, the other doesn't. Sorry don't have the reference to hand

Thank you very much for the suggestions peter

I think you would use the same glue as for solvent weld waste pipes.

mark

I replied to this a couple of days ago, but Dem I believe MEK was banned because it was found to be a carcinogen or something equally nasty. It has been replaced by dichloromethane (dimethylene chloride).

One source is Plastic Weld Cement or Plasweld from EMA Model Supplies:

That's a myth. AFAICT its still in daily use and readily available. This came up on a modelling group and we all went a-googling, found no substance in the claim, checked all our tins amd bottles, and found it clearly mentioned on many of them.

I have some Hepworth(?) plastic weld stuff for plumbing. Its a solution of PVC and MEK.

Bugger, that's another week gone by without becoming perfect :-)

ISTR reading some years ago about MEK being banned, and I know that that's what Plasticweld used to be. Airfix Magazine used to recommend it in the sixties.

Anyway, here's a safety sheet:

Yup. Its deprecated in kids stiff, cos its a dangerous inhalant. I use it and acetone a lot in model building, and stagger out with a headache usually if I am not careful. Now I use it,and leave the modelling room.

I can appreciate that. I once dropped a bottle of carbon tetrachloride (remember Dabitoff and fire extinguishers?) in my garage and was out of the door before it hit the floor.