Tip To Solve Plastic Cover Housing Problem
This time I wanted to share with you this “Lessons Learned”. I repaired a diode laser but soon it came back due the customer is complaining housing is now open…
Picture sent by my customer
Let me try to explain the problem- Plastic housings close by the action of the screw which keeps both pieces tight.
But sometimes the plastic broke and screw could not make his function
Even adding glue to plastic it will sooner or later broke again. This was the case because I glued with super glue cyanoacrylate and it worked only for weeks…
By the way, I learned from my wife a good trick: cyanoacrylate + baking soda (powder) or flour can make a stronger joint! Nevertheless, it did not work for the plastic housing. This time I do something different.
I bought larger bolts and glued a hose in order to have a stronger contact area and the result:
I hope you like my shared experience!
This article was prepared for you by Francisco Maciel Barba from MacBar Re-Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Francisco is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and owns a shop in repairing SPA Medical Equipment. He will be 50 year old this coming July and has been in this repair line for 15 years and love electronics since 12 years old.
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Tayo
June 28, 2021 at 11:35 am
Good tip! Thank you for sharing.
Albert van Bemmelen
June 28, 2021 at 1:12 pm
The cyanoacrylate + baking soda trick is a good one. Sadly I never bake so I in the past used some other glue which I mixed with the cyanoacrylate glue (superglue). That also made a stronger and faster hardening material. And it helps in times when the mostly hard plastics are not porous enough to attach to. And if you have old rather expensive silver glue that hardened out you still can reactivate the glue by adding some nail polish remover or acetone to it and stir both.
Mario
June 28, 2021 at 2:49 pm
This is a great trick to help cyanoacrilate (super glue) to cure, because this glue NEEDS something to stick on, just as concrete needs stones mixed to it, to be more rugged. Anyway I still haven't found a good solution to glue things together when bigger areas of the encasing is damaged.
Yogesh Panchal
June 28, 2021 at 4:29 pm
Good Job! Sir,
Parasuraman S
June 28, 2021 at 4:58 pm
Good Tip! Nice to know about you! All the very best!
Henrique J. G. Ulbrich
June 28, 2021 at 7:39 pm
I enjoyed the tip. Greetings, Francisco. Saludos de Brasil.
Robert Spoon
June 28, 2021 at 8:21 pm
Thanks for the hose tip, I repair musical keyboards and run into this all the time. I'll use this for sure, Thank You!
Anwar Y Shiekh
June 29, 2021 at 12:09 am
The hose trick is clever and worth noting.
Josh
June 30, 2021 at 12:07 am
thanks for the tips!I discovered a glue tip that I have founf very useful.I mix a corn starch and a clear pure silicon together .1/2 to 1/2 of each.This will form a very strong mold or form to hold your screw in to the case,plus bond the plastic too.
Humberto
July 14, 2021 at 12:06 am
Bueno su tip señor, lo he usado anteriormente con muy buenos resultados, aunque confieso que lo he usado sin tener en cuenta el pegado con glue. Gracias mil.
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Well your tip sir, I have used it previously with very good results, although I confess that I have used it without taking into account the gluing with glue. Thanks a thousand.