buggsubique
18th December 2011, 08:23
This thread is really made for someone to do a search at some point in the future, having no doubt arsed off their pride & joy and cracked / shattered / destroyed one or more ABS fairing (ie the hard, brittle stuff found on bikes other than trail bikes which have "plastics" made of the softer, shinier Polypropylene).
I'm currently going through the process with the front cowl and side fairings on my AT which took a walloping on the Waiouru Adventure Ride.
This thread on the other site (http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=586425)has really good advice using acetone and ABS scraps.
Often the challenge is finding ABS. ABS can be found on modern car bumpers. Plastic hubcaps are also ABS but the one I picked up actually had a thin outer coat of another form of plastic under the paint that was very brittle. More often than not the ABS is black, but can be off-white / white. You can buy sheets on Trademe sometimes - a quick search brings up white sheets only at the moment. Dick Smith Electronics also sells hobby boxes for electronics kits. These are black ABS. The other obvious source is broken fairings off another bike.
Often, if you look on the inside / underside of any moulded product you will find the plastic type stamped into it (eg ABS, or PS (Poly Styrene). Obviously you're looking for "ABS".
And if you're really into it here's another site (http://www.modernplastics.com/how_to_identify_plastics.htm) on plastics in general.
Cheers, Buggs
I'm currently going through the process with the front cowl and side fairings on my AT which took a walloping on the Waiouru Adventure Ride.
This thread on the other site (http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=586425)has really good advice using acetone and ABS scraps.
Often the challenge is finding ABS. ABS can be found on modern car bumpers. Plastic hubcaps are also ABS but the one I picked up actually had a thin outer coat of another form of plastic under the paint that was very brittle. More often than not the ABS is black, but can be off-white / white. You can buy sheets on Trademe sometimes - a quick search brings up white sheets only at the moment. Dick Smith Electronics also sells hobby boxes for electronics kits. These are black ABS. The other obvious source is broken fairings off another bike.
Often, if you look on the inside / underside of any moulded product you will find the plastic type stamped into it (eg ABS, or PS (Poly Styrene). Obviously you're looking for "ABS".
And if you're really into it here's another site (http://www.modernplastics.com/how_to_identify_plastics.htm) on plastics in general.
Cheers, Buggs