plastic welding?

[lilnapsak]

so today my girlfriend asked to borrow my kayak to go yak around on the river with a few friends. i gave her a quick lesson on how to use a ratchet strap and told her to make sure she straps it down the same way i showed her.. well of course she didnt listen and on the way to drop it back off to me it fell off the top of her libery and the nose smashed into the ground, splitting the seam where they meet and jacking the whole tip up.. ive heard about plastic welding before but im not sure how to go about fixing this. im going to take a heat gun to it tomorrow to straighten it up as best as i can..




it doesnt see any crazy white water rapids or anything, its more of a cruize down streams/lakes kayak. anyone who has any experiance or info on plastic welding give me some advice on how to go about fixing this. thanks in advance

[HeavyMetal]

i think Justin (customcreations here) does this...maybe he will chime in unless i am wrong

if all else fails maybe apoxy the bloody fawk out of it

[Bigbike]

Lumberg is a plastic welding engineer he may have an idea.

[Ruepart Hoaxley]

Lumberg is a plastic welding engineer he may have an idea.

No, he's the division VP of Initech. Gawd.

[Pat]

Have a friend that modifies bumpers for vw's and sells them. From what ive been told you just gotta practice, He self taught himself on junk plastic.

[WickedXJ]

Long story short my kayak got run over by a 38" tire so I would be really interested in seeing the results. If you want to form it back to the way it was I used a bucket of boiling water and a towel and thermal gloves and just put the towel on the deformed area and then hit it with a rubber mallet over and over again through the towel making sure to keep the towel boiling hot. Now after being run over mine tracks straight and looks good but it does have a small rip in the plastic around one of the storage openings so I would like to know how to do this too.

[clean4drxj]

Have a friend that modifies bumpers for vw's and sells them. From what ive been told you just gotta practice, He self taught himself on junk plastic.

thats basically any welding, their are some decent epoxies out there, I used a few on my my old GSXR when i bought it crashed.

[grundlepunch]

make her buy u a new one

[Bigbike]

Tel her to stay in the Kitchen next time.

[justtorchit]

Tel her to stay in the Kitchen next time.

(first time ive used the like smiley.... it felt SOOOOOO GEWWWWD)

[grundlepunch]

Tel her to stay in the Kitchen next time.

cant make samiches floating down a fucking river

[Bigbike]

cant make samiches floating down a fucking river

Aint that the truth.

[lilnapsak]

she is probably going to end up buying me a new one.. but that might take a bit and im trying to fix it so dont sink considering i use it a few times a week. after i bitched her out for it she did go into the kitchen to make me mashed potatoes and got me beer

[Pat]

thats basically any welding, their are some decent epoxies out there, I used a few on my my old GSXR when i bought it crashed.

Well what i was trying to say is their is no class or book on how to plastic weld, I think

[kracker]

make her buy u a new one

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