Topic: What do you use to patch plastic for more strength ?

[FunJimmy]

ABS glue and Acrylic glue are interchangeable.
Look in the Yellow Pages for plastics companies.
They'll have everything you need to fix that bucket up just like new.
You can also get epoxy putty at Home Depot.

[grcamna2]

Thanks Jimmy 

[flybox1]

Fiberglass drywall tape!  Great to reinforce stuff.  Get it any any home improvement store.
Sticky on one side.  Cuts easily to any shape you need. 
Lay down 2-3 layers where you want it, and then paint a good plastic glue/epoxy right over it.
Its mesh design lets the epoxy get right down to the surface.

[The Right Gear]

Oreilly or autozone sell bumper repair kit by bindi it has a rubberized plastic and a mesh screen patch. Apply mesh to back side of hole, build up rubberized bondo then sand smooth to match surface and repaint. I used it a few times on an old Porsche project and it was both strong and smooth, after paint it was impossible to find the original hole in the bumper.


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[grcamna2]

Welcome to the forum 'The Right Gear' and thanks for the input

[grcamna2]

Fiberglass drywall tape!  Great to reinforce stuff.  Get it any any home improvement store.
Sticky on one side.  Cuts easily to any shape you need. 
Lay down 2-3 layers where you want it, and then paint a good plastic glue/epoxy right over it.
Its mesh design lets the epoxy get right down to the surface.

That mesh there flybox1,does it just come in that one size mesh or finer ?

[krusty]

Over here I use a product called Qbond from SuperCheap Auto supplies. It's plastic powder which sets rock hard in seconds using supeglue. If repairing cracks I use a dremmel along the crack, fill it with the Qbond powder then add the superglue. The superglue is quickly absorbed by the powder then sets in seconds. I recently repaired large cracks and a large chunk missing from my FJ1100 fairing.

[flybox1]

Fiberglass drywall tape!  Great to reinforce stuff.  Get it any any home improvement store.
Sticky on one side.  Cuts easily to any shape you need. 
Lay down 2-3 layers where you want it, and then paint a good plastic glue/epoxy right over it.
Its mesh design lets the epoxy get right down to the surface.

That mesh there flybox1,does it just come in that one size mesh or finer ?

Just that.  I havent seen any smaller.  Those holes are 2-3mm square.

[krusty]

Fiberglass drywall tape!  Great to reinforce stuff.  Get it any any home improvement store.
Sticky on one side.  Cuts easily to any shape you need. 
Lay down 2-3 layers where you want it, and then paint a good plastic glue/epoxy right over it.
Its mesh design lets the epoxy get right down to the surface.

That mesh there flybox1,does it just come in that one size mesh or finer ?

Just that.  I havent seen any smaller.  Those holes are 2-3mm square.

That looks like a cool idea. Could be used in a few situations and better still, I have a roll of it somewhere already so I don't have to run out and buy some.

[Bailgang]

When my youngest son first got his previous cbr600 f3 it's fairing pieces were in bad shape so I used a 2 part epoxy glue with window mesh to reinforce it, the combination worked great for reinforcing cracks and even filling holes although I like the lego idea better for filling holes, I just didn't know about it until now. I got the screen window mesh repair kit at my local hardware store and had a choice of fiber or metal mesh. I laid a quarter in the pic to give you an idea of how fine the mesh is. Also the fiber mesh repair kit is self adhesive as well.

[grcamna2]

yeah,that mesh will add strength