Plastic welding with glue gun
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I can't answer that but I would have gone with riveting a sheet of rigid plastic over it myself.
My glue gun gets nowhere near hot enough to melt plastic but use my solder station quite a lot for plastic welding...
Usually spot weld to hold together initially by pushing the fine tip right through along the crack . If when melting it starts to smoke I turn it down gradually till it doesn't.
Usually spot weld to hold together initially by pushing the fine tip right through along the crack . If when melting it starts to smoke I turn it down gradually till it doesn't.
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2nd for using a soldering iron.
Andy
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Doesn’t your council replace free of charge ? Mine does.
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Get a different council, which trust the rate payers - ours, you just need to say they damaged it, and they will accept your word.
Do some plastic repair at work on computer kit.
Soldering iron and car body repair mesh.
Smaller repairs, multicore wire. Much better than staples/solid wire as it bonds into the plastic.
Don't find that just melting works very on computer plastics. ABS I think
Soldering iron and car body repair mesh.
Smaller repairs, multicore wire. Much better than staples/solid wire as it bonds into the plastic.
Don't find that just melting works very on computer plastics. ABS I think
ABS can be repaired but you use acetone to glue or to make a repair slurry/goop using waste ABS rather than using heat.
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I thought that wheely bins were medium or high density polyethylene ours certainly is. There are some industrIal adhesives around which can bond the stuff (e.g. Techbond, which bonds at a molecular level), but welding thickish HDPE takes a lot more heat than a soldering iron can deliver - think more in terms of an industrial hot air gun (e.g Steinel) with an appropriate welding rod
or of using something like a fusion welder. I used to machine the stuff at one time as a "side job" and I recall the weld temperature for 1000 grade HDPE was about 300 degrees C with MDPE and LDPE being a bit lower
or of using something like a fusion welder. I used to machine the stuff at one time as a "side job" and I recall the weld temperature for 1000 grade HDPE was about 300 degrees C with MDPE and LDPE being a bit lower
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Councils are under a legal duty to collect domestic waste, they cant charge for it, or for a bin which breaks under fair wear and tear.
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