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jim, what kind of plastic did you use for your welding? did you use rods or did you just use a nother fairing to melt in while welding? and did youhave any trouble with cracking???? we did it in school on bumpers for plastic repair and we had a lot of issuses with the rods we were useing causing cracks and when you would sand the filler material it would melt and smear. (r4-r3 clear and black fillerrods)
jim, what kind of plastic did you use for your welding? did you use rods or did you just use a nother fairing to melt in while welding? and did youhave any trouble with cracking???? we did it in school on bumpers for plastic repair and we had a lot of issuses with the rods we were useing causing cracks and when you would sand the filler material it would melt and smear. (r4-r3 clear and black fillerrods)
I've got 30x30 sheets of raw plastic and tons of cutoff scrap to work with so I haven't bought rod in years.
I'll confess that I have 2 small places that i didn't weld real well so they hairlined when I put the fairings back on. That was me being in a hurry and tired of screwing with it though.
The only time I ever have problems with a weld cracking is when I am impatient, or the fairing has absorbed a lot of fuel/oil (lowers). If your temp is set right, plastic is good (no fuel/paint/filler and new plastic is compatible), you mix in an "x" pattern when you weld, weld both sides of the piece, and don't bend or flex it in any way until it cools, you shouldn't get any cracking.
The beauty of plastic though is that if you don't get it right on the first pass it only takes a second to do it again.
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