[DeTomaso] Cracked Dash
Charles Engles
cengles at cox.net
Sun Jul 12 22:35:14 EDT 2015
Dear Will,
Yeah, but is it as good as stock original if you use melted
Legos??
Concerned, Chuck Engles
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From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Will Kooiman
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 8:59 PM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Cracked Dash
A while back someone mentioned wanting to repair the cracks in his dash.
I replied that I had seen that you can glue it back together with acetone.
The acetone melts the plastic, and then the acetone evaporates and the
plastic hardens.
Well, I tried it today, and it works.
My dash is out of my car, and it has a few small cracks. One was cracked
all the way through, and it made the dash rather flimsy.
So, I bought some acetone and some modelers brushes, and I globbed it all
over the crack. This is different from superglue where you only want a
little. I wanted to get plenty so that it would melt the plastic. Then I
leaned it against the wall so that the weight of the dash closed the crack.
A few hours later, I checked it. It is nice and tight, just like super
glue.
I guess I could have used superglue, but I wanted to see if this would work.
I¹m going to put some JB weld on the back to strengthen the crack. I¹ve
also heard you can melt ABS plastic, like Legos and use as a filler. I
might try that instead of JB weld.
Okay, so that¹s not as cool as a killer camshaft or a tunnel ram, but it¹s
still pretty cool.
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