It’s easier and less messy than filler, but the repair is transparent if you look hard enough. The main problem is that you will also have to shell out for paint and lacquer on top of the kit.
But [Matthias Wandel] may be on to something. Here he’s using nichrome wire to reinforce the broken plastic part. The repair process is demonstrated in full in the video after the break.
Predictions suggest a build-up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Hawaii. This figure is up to sixteen times higher than previously ...
Now [Inventor 101] has a video about plastic repair that also talks about welding, although — again, we aren’t sure all of the techniques qualify. That’s not to say there aren’t some ...
Predictions suggest a build-up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Hawaii. This figure is up to sixteen times higher than previously ...
They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...
A recent article in The Times on an effort to eliminate the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch failed to address this pollution’s root cause. Plastic is everywhere. It’s in our soil ...