your advice on repairing a crack on sharktooth grill
As you can see from the link in the last post, I just repaired some cracks in the sharktooth grille I got a couple months ago from ebay.
I tried the acetone and plastic shavings on one of my old broken standard duster grilles to see if it would work, and I didn't have good luck with it. The plastic melts down, but after I fixed a crack, the repaired crack wasn't very strong and was easily re-cracked.
I did use some regular 2 part epoxy from NAPA. I used a dremel tool to notch out both sides of the crack into a V shape to give more surface area for the epoxy to hold onto. Mix the epoxy, fill the crack, scrap off some of the extra, but leave a little extra since the epoxy will shrink a little when it cures. Sand down the excess epoxy without sanding the plastic too much, shoot some primer then paint.
Heres a pic of mine finished. Mine was cracked in 3 places. Two on the top and one on the bottom of the near side in the pic when the curve starts.
As you can see from the link in the last post, I just repaired some cracks in the sharktooth grille I got a couple months ago from ebay.
I tried the acetone and plastic shavings on one of my old broken standard duster grilles to see if it would work, and I didn't have good luck with it. The plastic melts down, but after I fixed a crack, the repaired crack wasn't very strong and was easily re-cracked.
I did use some regular 2 part epoxy from NAPA. I used a dremel tool to notch out both sides of the crack into a V shape to give more surface area for the epoxy to hold onto. Mix the epoxy, fill the crack, scrap off some of the extra, but leave a little extra since the epoxy will shrink a little when it cures. Sand down the excess epoxy without sanding the plastic too much, shoot some primer then paint.
Heres a pic of mine finished. Mine was cracked in 3 places. Two on the top and one on the bottom of the near side in the pic when the curve starts.