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Post by 4l04ever on Aug 25, 2020 9:47:35 GMT 1
I am not sure which other plastic would work. Maybe oil tank or overflow tank , which I have also thrown away in the past. Neutral switch seems to work quite well. Maybe put a wanted advert up. I have embedded some fine stainless mesh into two of the repairs where the lug was completely gone.  |
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Post by tony2stroke on Aug 25, 2020 10:29:35 GMT 1
I am not sure which other plastic would work. Maybe oil tank or overflow tank , which I have also thrown away in the past. Neutral switch seems to work quite well. Maybe put a wanted advert up. I have embedded some fine stainless mesh into two of the repairs where the lug was completely gone. Do you have a seat fetish, only joking, I have never seen so many in 1 persons possession. |
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Post by 4l04ever on Aug 25, 2020 10:32:41 GMT 1
I think I had 8 all together, which includes ones on bikes and ones waiting to go on bikes. Got a few after-market seats in the auxiliary stash.
Glad I never threw any of these away...
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Post by tony2stroke on Aug 25, 2020 10:39:42 GMT 1
Yes! Well saved that man.
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Post by 4l04ever on Aug 25, 2020 10:46:06 GMT 1
If anyone needs their tang repairing, I am happy to advise, or you can pop round for a coffee with your seat and neutral switch and I will do it for you :-)
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Post by 4l04ever on Sept 13, 2020 22:30:50 GMT 1
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Post by markrd250lc on Oct 11, 2020 10:14:37 GMT 1
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Post by 4l04ever on Oct 13, 2020 20:34:23 GMT 1
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Post by stevel1305 on Oct 14, 2020 19:27:37 GMT 1
Thanks for the heads up on these. Just ordered myself one from Alan Kelly via ebay. |
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Post by alankelly on Oct 14, 2020 19:44:29 GMT 1
Thanks for the heads up on these. Just ordered myself one from Alan Kelly via ebay. Hi Steve As you are a forum member will get it in the post tonight😁 Thanks for the sale 👍 Best wishes Al |
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Post by pedheadfred on Oct 14, 2020 23:44:59 GMT 1
I used to work in a body shop at a Ford main dealers in Boston so as part of being an official authorised main dealer repair centre.
There were certain training programs technicians had to go to Daventry to the Ford Care Institute to be trained in.
I did the plastic welding and repair course along with paintless dent removal course there so we could officially repair plastic Bumpers.
There course showed us how to prepare the item for its repair and repair techniques, it was mainly sanding pannel to remove paint and using solvent to clean prior to the repair (Actione).
Main form of repair was with a hot air welding tool you used a filler for for joining the split crack in plastics.
Second one was using 2 pack plastic repair paste for filling gaps holes, I personally didn't like the filler rods that were used as alot of the time they didn't seem to bond to alot of bumpers.
So I decided that I would make my own filler rods!, I cut pieces of bumper off scrap bumpers after I had sanded the paint off before cutting in to strips.
I cleaned them with solvent before use and found that these worked perfectly being the same plastic.
In my experience cleaning is a must scrape any dirt paint away using a blade before solvent cleaning it aids the melting.
But I developed my own methods which were faster and work really well, like you soldering iron works very well to melt or bond plastic but keep cleaning the tip regularly.
The method I find with the iron is use the flat blade tip on its side push it in the crack and pull it along the crack to clean the edge of joining pieces.
Then use the flat tip across the gap press the parts together before putting the iron over the gap which melts the parts together, press it in to the parts lift it up then move down couple mm.
Repeat this method along the split it will look like a zipper and can be done on both sides so full thickness penitration.
I found it became as strong as it was before damaged, you can use a piece of the bumper strip to strengthen the joint.
As for were there was a bracket snapped off I always used same method but I hear up a piece of stainless mesh and press it in to the two parts to strengthen the bracket.
I buy cheap flour sifters from Poundland and cut them up for the mesh, this can be used for filling gaps were plastics missing as well.
Another method is hot staples stainless steel staples heated up pressed in the plastic to join the parts to stop pulling apart works well too.
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Post by elsiefan on Sept 20, 2022 16:52:31 GMT 1
Finally got around to repairing the seat tang on Elsie, using the guide on here and the plastic parts 4L04ever sent me a while back 👍 My results were not as smooth as 4L04ever got, but I'm happy with the result and the tang feels stronger and fits positively into the under tank locator. This was before  IMG20220920153245  IMG20220920153255 This was after  IMG20220920155608  IMG20220920155615 |
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Post by 4l04ever on Sept 20, 2022 17:38:54 GMT 1
Good effort for a first attempt. You can thicken the legs up as they are quite thin as standard. Also, if it breaks you can just do it again :-)
I have loads of pieces of cut up seat base if anyone needs any.
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Post by elsiefan on Sept 25, 2022 1:17:28 GMT 1
Good effort for a first attempt. You can thicken the legs up as they are quite thin as standard. Also, if it breaks you can just do it again :-) I have loads of pieces of cut up seat base if anyone needs any. My main criticism of my work was I couldn't stop the plastic discolouring when I applied it using the soldering iron. Yours looked like the original base colour, mine not so much, but as it's hidden from view I was more concerned with the fit and function, than the aesthetics. |
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Post by 4l04ever on Sept 25, 2022 11:15:51 GMT 1
The plastic from the neutral switch is different to the seat plastic.
The neutral switch plastic discoloured and burnt more than the seat plastic. It may have a lower melting/boiling point.
It seems to be better to use the same part as a donor so it should be the same plastic.
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Post by alankelly on Sept 29, 2022 18:27:29 GMT 1
The plastic from the neutral switch is different to the seat plastic. The neutral switch plastic discoloured and burnt more than the seat plastic. It may have a lower melting/boiling point. It seems to be better to use the same part as a donor so it should be the same plastic. Hi Rob I think the seat base may be polypropylene and the neutral switch is maybe an ABS or a nylon If it was polypropylene you could buy a 1/2 kg reel of white 2.85 mm polypropylene filament for £17  More than enough for seat repairs |
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Post by alankelly on Oct 1, 2022 17:32:41 GMT 1
Cut my damaged tang off today do fit one of my repair parts  Used a hot knife and seat base material definitely is either polypropylene or polyethylene as it melts to a liquid and sticks nicely on your skin😔 |
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