[DeTomaso] NPC - Senior Moment

Will Kooiman will.kooiman at gmail.com
Sat Jul 12 10:48:31 EDT 2014


Acetone is supposed to dissolve ABS plastic.

Remember our thread a few months back about fixing cracked dashes?  I have
mine apart right now, and I¹m going to try using acetone to ³weld² the
plastic back together.  I got the idea from a guy that bought a Viper that
needed lots of repairs.  He melted some legos to glue some of the ABS
plastic.  I¹m not planning on melting legos, but I want to try using
acetone to glue the cracks, and then I will probably put epoxy on the back
side.

At any rate, you might be able to use acetone to clean the headers.

On 7/11/14, 11:55 AM, "Tom Shinrock via DeTomaso" <detomaso at poca.com>
wrote:

>   Here's another problem I've created for myself.
>   We had a storm go through last week that generated straight line winds
>   of 80 mph for 20 minutes straight.  It was like a small tornado.  Many,
>   many trees were damaged or uprooted.   I lost half of a 30 foot maple
>   tree and a couple branches on another tree which was small potatoes
>   compared the damage that other homes suffered in the neighborhood.
>   It wasn't to the next day when I was digging around the garage to get
>   what I needed to cut the damaged trees that I discovered that the piece
>   of drywall that covered up the attic access hole in my ceiling was
>   apparently dislodged by the high wind coming through the attic vent
>   that it fell through the hole and landed on the windshield of my
>   Porsche 944 Turbo and smashed it up real good.
>   I was real lucky that it didn't bend any metal or scratch any paint.  I
>   have zero deductible replacement glass on my collector car insurance so
>   I will get a new window with no out of pocket expense.  I'll give
>   another plug for the AIG collector car insurance offered through
>   Barrett Jackson as they reacted immediately to my claim and put me in
>   touch with a local auto glass company to install the new windshield.
>   So here's my problem... The glass company preferred that I drive the
>   car to their location instead of doing it at my house.  I haven't
>   driven the 944 all year, so I charged the battery to make sure it would
>   start.  I drove the car to the glass place this morning and noticed at
>   the traffic light a couple of blocks from the place that smoke/steam
>   was coming from under the hood.   The temp gauge was normal so I drove
>   to their parking lot and lifted up the hood.  I found that I failed to
>   replace the plastic battery cover lid that I had taken off while
>   charging the battery.  I put the lid on top of the motor in plain sight
>   to remind me to replace it when I took off the battery charger.  I
>   apparently fell down on edge between the shock tower and engine so I
>   didn't notice it and I forgot all about it.  The smoke was the plastic
>   lid melting on the headers.
>   So, doesn't anybody have any great ideas to remove melted plastic from
>   my headers?  There is a large area coated with black plastic.
>   Tom
>   5186
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