Dual light stock pre98 taillight

[ThAzKat]

another new mod for me, plastic weld is an awesome thing!! Super bright now. As you can see it lights the whole lens up now. The first picture is of the socket holes before the finished product, I still had alot of plastic welding to do.

[HS2020]

Yeah Jim has something like that. I am wanting to make mine look like 2 lights in the rear. I think I will find one off ebay and mod it. Where do you get one of those plastic welders?

[ThAzKat]

I used a craftsman soldiering gun 150/230. It does a great job and you can use the extra plastic from the donor taillight. The donor I had was a TL. My next one will be all LED.

[kwebbel]

150 watts? that's too much TK! you should use max 35watts in my experience, with that kind of heat you'll burn the plastics and it will easily break, a less powerfull solderinggun will melt the plastic better, keeping it's flexibility...

[Meikol2]

Sweet and bright!


My dad used to have a plastic welding set-up that fed plastic weld "wire" and worked really well. Alas it was stolen a long time ago. I think the soldering iron would be cheaper.

[ThAzKat]

150 watts? that's too much TK! you should use max 35watts in my experience, with that kind of heat you'll burn the plastics and it will easily break, a less powerfull solderinggun will melt the plastic better, keeping it's flexibility...

Yes, I practiced on some junk plastic and found it works real fast. I will definitely purchase a lower watt gun before I start on the body plastics. Thank you for the information. I did burn some of the practice plastic and found it to be a bit brittle. When I started on the taillight I made sure not to keep the heat on for too long.