zadok
23rd February 2006, 11:26
This could be a handy money saving bit of kit:
http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf
I guess we all do it to some degree; bang up our beautiful motorcycle. Sometimes cracks appear in the plastic, or we break off things on our precious bike.
Repairing them often involves bringing it to the garage, and being charged an arm and a leg. So here's a solution that seems easy enough and not expensive.
It's called Utile Plastics, a plastic that you can mold to your requirements. You buy a box full of plastic grains, heat it up in boiling water, and then form it into whatever shape you want it to be. After a few minutes, the plastic is as hard as a rock !
If you've torn your cowling, cracked your windscreen, or any other mishap, you can now repair it yourself.
The plastic is biodegradable, unbreakable and nontoxic. But what makes it more interesting, is that you can reuse the plastic...
You can obviously use it for non-motorcycle applications.
Costs: $5.00 for the smaller package, $9.99 or $16.99 for the bigger ones.
http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf
I guess we all do it to some degree; bang up our beautiful motorcycle. Sometimes cracks appear in the plastic, or we break off things on our precious bike.
Repairing them often involves bringing it to the garage, and being charged an arm and a leg. So here's a solution that seems easy enough and not expensive.
It's called Utile Plastics, a plastic that you can mold to your requirements. You buy a box full of plastic grains, heat it up in boiling water, and then form it into whatever shape you want it to be. After a few minutes, the plastic is as hard as a rock !
If you've torn your cowling, cracked your windscreen, or any other mishap, you can now repair it yourself.
The plastic is biodegradable, unbreakable and nontoxic. But what makes it more interesting, is that you can reuse the plastic...
You can obviously use it for non-motorcycle applications.
Costs: $5.00 for the smaller package, $9.99 or $16.99 for the bigger ones.