Plastic Welding Method with steel wool. Easy way to repair broken plastics!
#diy #welding #plastic
In today's DIY video i show you simple plastic welding method and ways to repair and fix broken plastic using a soldering iron and steel wool to weld the plastic together. With this plastic welding method it is a much more effective and durable than repairing using super glue and baking soda and don't require special tool.
Hope you enjoy this video of how to repair broken or cracked plastic items or tools around the house or work shop. See you in the next 5 minutes crafts video
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Now we need to see the pretty part where you make the topside look like there was no damage. Thank you for showing these methods!
@cantcomeupwithausern
10 ай бұрын
Yeah... Dont hold your breath
If ya fill the gaps with epoxy glue then you can use Upol stone guard or raptor liner to cover everything and give it a nice texture.
Reinforcement the patch with squares of screen window wire mesh. Steel or aluminum when using heat, fiberglass screen when using epoxy.
Przepiękne są tu te wszystkie pomysły pozdrawiam twórcę tego filmiku serdecznie 👍👍👍👍👍
What I have found is that, say, you're patching a busted hinge on a bin-type garbage can. Take a jigsaw and cut off a thin sliver from around the edge of the overhang of the lid. There's more than a inch and a half lipped over. You cut a quarter inch wide strip with a jigsaw and use that. That way, its of the exact same material as what you're fixing. Straighten out a thin paper clip and do a zig zag with needle-nose pliers and bend it so it's flat. Duct tape the underside of the lid and hinge. Do the repair on TOP of the broken material and use the filler rod you jig-sawed off. Let that cool and then open the lid and prop it on something and do the underside, as well. IT AIN'T BREAKING THERE, AGAIN !!! Bill, from Tn. 🇺🇸
Thanks for sharing.👍👍
Awesome work thanks for sharing your experience
Awesome fix
Existem muitos métodos para este tipo de trabalho. Este é mais um.
muchas gracias, me sirve
that's great.
This is brilliant! Thanks!
I feel like using staples would of been much faster. Also why are you melting zip ties when you have the scrap you brushed off table?
@CHAINOFIDEAS
11 ай бұрын
because the fasteners are considered solid plastic.
@truckskate9677
10 ай бұрын
Yes I agree the fasteners plastic is more dense than the plastic he's using so it'll weld better
@flitsies
10 ай бұрын
@@truckskate9677it will only weld better if it is the same type of plastic, if it is not the same plastic it will become brittle against the other plastic and it will fail. You can weld zip pies to zip ties and it will last, you can weld almost any plastic to the same plastic and it will weld, but when you start crossing plastics it gives the impression of being welded but is not, the plastic will not mix properly as they are different compounds.
@Loiczzr
10 ай бұрын
@@flitsiesexactly!
@Whalermansteve84
10 ай бұрын
Should have used the piece he cut off to fill the gap. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
O único problema é que você tem que ter um pedaço do mesmo material pra fazer o remendo
Impressive!
Use parchment paper between the plastic and iron to smooth put the rough edges.
Great
The way you do it, the results will definitely last. The best is my friend 👍👍👍 10:57
Getting high just watching those plastic fumes.
I like this method overall, but are there any thoughts or processes to fill the gaps on the face side of the plastic?
I bet that smells lovely
Ide yg cemerlag, bermanfaat Bro..👍
what is your solder tip made from
How hot are you running and how do you keep your tip from accumulating plastic on it?
I'm not sure why you're screwing around with those metal fibers for reinforcements when using a metal window screen would be much much easier to use and probably stronger. I used the hot soldering iron method to fix model cars over 50 years ago.
Great video bro
@CHAINOFIDEAS
10 ай бұрын
Thanks))
Shouldn't thin that edge after you tacked it should have melted the scrap from cuttings in with the iron and made more cuttings from the damaged panel then welded the back completely with the cuttings . It'd be stronger a little square of silicone baking pan will allow you to hot press it to shape by hand on the table without it sticking to the silicone
NICE JOB - BUT... Why cut out a perfectly good piece of plastic when the 'star-shaped' hole could so easily have been repaired. As a 'jagged star-shape' it had sufficient right angles to key new plastic, or even a charcoal & superglue mix to it to fill the hole.....? In truth, there are so many options for repairing plastics now, where once of a day we had to buy new bit. Thankfully there are enough people demonstrating their own forms of repair on KZread for us to see..... Well done anyway.... James Hennighan Yorkshire, England
@CHAINOFIDEAS
10 ай бұрын
Thanks to you, we have shown one of the methods of patching plastic
Эпоксидная смола или 2х компонентный клей вам в помощь господина. И лак краска карандаш.
if these are the type of mad max 3 repairs done over your ways im never flying to The East EVER again
Some epoxy would be easier I think
This is what crackheads do in their shed at 4:00am
What watt soldering iron are you using thanks
@CHAINOFIDEAS
10 ай бұрын
we used ordinary fine fiber wire
@Nexus2UAll
10 ай бұрын
@@CHAINOFIDEASHe’s asking the wattage of the iron and but I’m curious what metal is it you used to replace the soldering iron head with? ✨🙏
@chrisallen2005
10 ай бұрын
@@Nexus2UAll fine fiber wire you dimwit.
mucho trabajo; para un acabado sin terminar.😢
Tweak to make it better and simpler: * Do NOT remove any original material with the dremel/grinder * Melt twisted steel wool fully into the surface * No need to add more plastic. AND: the zip tie is nylon. Not compatible with PP (or any other non-nylon) plastic. It would have eventually failed.
Gorilla tape on backside, then flip over piece and put some super glue in cracks. No hot iron, no risk from smelling burnt plastic. No need for steel wool.
What material is the rod at 0:24?
@CHAINOFIDEAS
10 ай бұрын
we used ordinary fine fiber wire
@db1236
10 ай бұрын
@@CHAINOFIDEASI mean the rod you used as a solder tip. What material is it?
@CHAINOFIDEAS
10 ай бұрын
it is made of wire mesh
O trabalho é interessante... Mas na frente ficou feio
Basta solo la plastica .
I bet that whole process took only about 2 minutes in real time.
Lo soldaste pero si mo le das acabado por la cara que se mira es un fracaso, cuando menos si se trata de alguna moldura.
I can't even... Yeah I guess...
JB weld would have done a 1000 times better fixing that plastic at a third of the time.
Unnecessary steel fiber
Way overcomplicated. Would have been better just to fill the original hole. Wouldn’t have looked any worse than what you ended with.
Херня полная держать не будет от вибрации лопнет как было а переделывать щамучиешся
Looks like crap. You have to make the front side look better, much better.
What a big mess. That's the worst plastic welding I have ever seen
Sloppy work. Throw away the item. In fact, it looks worse than before you did what you did.... Go to an auto body junk yard and get it from another car. Sorry buddy, you tried, but I must say that isn't a repair. It's a disaster...
Clown does not know what he is doing I Fix plastic Gas Tanks With a Screw Driver and a disposable Cigarette Lighter. With or without GAS IN THE TANK AND IT DOES NOT LEAK AS LONG AS YOU USE A PIECE OF THE plastic thar that you are Fixing
Is there a plastic that will meld with different plastics, if you don't know the type of plastic you are working with?
The only thing that stood was making ugly spot bigger...
was gonna watch but the click track music made me run
@gazinta
10 ай бұрын
I muted this device, and played some metal instead.
I feel insulted that someone wants me to waste 2 minutes of my time while watching someone cut a hole I hope the videos worth it
After three and a half minutes I'm out of here shame on you for wasting people's time
Looks like crap ! Total fail
@chrisallen2005
10 ай бұрын
Keeps the Lada looking fine