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Old 03-25-2006 | 09:05 PM
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Default RE: Plastic Gas Tank Repair Tip

BTW, my KYOSHO .46 size CAP 232 has a cowl that's some kind of white, mostly-rigid plastic that I figured was ABS or somesuch. It was the type plastic that you'd fix by soaking some of it's scrap in a bottle with just enough Acetone to melt the scrap into a paste.

The cowl developed a crack that went about 6 inches. I wasn't sure what would bond to that plastic. Then I noticed a sentence in one of the magazine ads for CA. It mentioned that the medium viscosity CA would bond ABS plastics. I got some and used it with a strip of glass cloth inside the crack. It seemed to slightly melt the plastic and bonded the glass into it.

sort of a spin off, but sorta on the same subject...........