19 Mar
2013
19 Mar
'13
4:20 a.m.
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
I guess our experience varies, then. The superglued repair looks almost
perfect and has held up fine for about five years. I've also repaired a
Mac Plus that was similarly smashed with results that are almost perfect -
and hard to spot.
Steve
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A guy in
Florida sent me a Xerox 820-II in a box that didn't allow any
space around the system. The keyboard was just sitting on top of the CPU
and the box flaps closed over it. The result was not pretty. I spent
about two days straightening out metal parts and super-glued the case
(which was broken into a half-dozen pieces) back together. Doesn't look
all that bad and works fine.
I have neve had much luck with isocyano acryllic hydro-copolymerising
adhesives for this sort of thing. If you can find a solvent for the
plastic (dichlormethane works on some common plastics) [1] then you cna
often make a much stronger repair.