Plastic for latch repair Message #8 Posted by Randy on 20 Feb 2006, 10:14 p.m., in response to message #6 by Gordon
Collar tabs: They're usually made of polyethylene, very hard if not impossible to bond to. The solvent welders will not work, you need something made of a styrenic material.
Some hobby shops sell styrene plastic in strips, rods, tubes and other shapes. It's used primarily for model railroading and many of the shapes are scaled to real world things like 4x4 timbers. Several of them come in real handy for calculator repair :)
I use strips that are 0.25" x 0.010" for the top cap on the battery latches - it reinforces the tab and doesn't add much in the way of thickness. Evergreen Scale Models is what my local shop carries. If you'd like, send me an email and I'll snail mail you a chunk.
IMO solvent welding is the **only** way to repair anything plastic in an HP handheld - throw the crazy glues away, they only make things worse.
Edited: 20 Feb 2006, 10:17 p.m.
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