Best way to "glue" fridge door shelf ?

[JBrennand]

The cross-door (480mm) bottle shelf, collapsed out of my Samsung fridge door yesterday (taking two bottles of bubbly with it!). The plastic (Acrylic ??) has snapped off at the "slot-in" point, and sheared along half its length. I have searched all the usual spares sites and eBay and no-one has a replacement part (appliance too old I guess). So only option (other than replacing the fridge freezer) is to try and effect a repair - albeit I accept its likely to only be temporary
So how would folks on here choose to do it ?
Thinking that Superglue followed by gaffer/duct tape might work ? Or Araldite 2 pack + tape? What about a fibreglass repair kit - as designed for plastic car bumpers - would that work on fridge plastics? I dont have a hot wire/staples gun and wouldnt buy one for this job - put monies to new FF. Anything else worth a shot ?

Any thoughts are welcome ? John

 

[Deleted member 174758]

If it's acrylic then a glue like Tensol 70 should be used. TBH when I had a problem with our fridge I used the solvent cement used for styrene model kits and that worked OK. Used masking tape to hold it together while the glue went off and left for 24 hours to harden. May work, may not depending on the exact nature of the plastic

 

[Burnerman]

Consider gluing the bits together with hot glue, and then reinforcing the area with clear Gorilla tape.
John

 

[JBrennand]

Consider gluing the bits together with hot glue, and then reinforcing the area with clear Gorilla tape.
John

Is that the ordinary Loctite hot glue & gun ?

 

[Burnerman]

Yes, that's the sort of thing.....as said, the adhesive needed depends on the type if plastic used - and constant cold temperatures don't help much either with the flexibility of the material.
My salad drawer suffered the same fate, and although the fix isn't pretty it's strong enough.
John

 

[foxhole]

Hot glue is not very effective over a small surface area, two part superglue will be ideal.

 

[mattylad]

what make and model is the fridge?
Someone may know where you can get a replacement.

Whatever adhesive you use, roughen up the plastic first and consider gluing strips of additional plastic onto it to strengthen the joint.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Soldering iron.

Andy

 

[JBrennand]

So what I did....
Assembled the jigsaw of broken parts (4) with regular superglue
Left Overnight
Filled in the holes of the small missing bits with white epoxy putty
Left overnight
Sanded over the cracks & joins and applied lashings of 2-pack clear plastic epoxy resin
Left overnight
Used lots of clear Gorilla tape to wrap around it all.
Not "mint" but doesnt look too bad and the missus says she can live with it - just as well as there isn't a spare one to be had anywhere in the world - that I can find via t'interweb.
Hopefully it will last some time
Thanks for everyone's input.