10 Dec
2001
10 Dec
'01
4:43 a.m.
Yesterday morning, I drove up into the mountains of
West Virginia and got an ASR-33 and a KSR-33 with a
few spare parts and a five inch stack of docs. I
haven't had the time to do anything with them yet,
probably won't get to play much until Christmas week.
Anyway, the metal on both machines seems to be in
good shape, but the plastic leaves something to be
desired. The ASR is mostly just dirty, but there
is a crack at the left rear screw position. The
KSR is cleaner as it was used less, but it was
stored improperly in a box and dropped or something
and the plastic upper case (the gray case, not the
white/yellow cover over the carriage) is broken into
several pieces. So does anybody have recommendations
as to glue or other solutions? Is someone sitting on
a big stock of spare upper shells?
Thanks,
Bill
10 Dec
10 Dec
7:46 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Anyway, the metal on both machines seems to be in good
shape, but the
plastic leaves something to be desired. The ASR is mostly just dirty,
but there is a crack at the left rear screw position. The KSR is
cleaner as it was used less, but it was stored improperly in a box and
dropped or something and the plastic upper case (the gray case, not
the white/yellow cover over the carriage) is broken into several
pieces. So does anybody have recommendations as to glue or other
solutions? Is someone sitting on a big stock of spare upper shells?
Use a glue specially for ABS plastic. Most so-called plastic and model
glues are for polystyrene and won't bond ABS since they are not strong
enough. Let me know what you find, since I'm also looking for glue to use
on tons of broken ABS cases. I've been told that there is a glue made for
an ABS type of drain pipe. PVC glue won't work either, it tends to damage
ABS plastics.
-Toth
9:40 a.m.
New subject: ABS type glue / was ASR-33
Check out a sporting goods store that sells whitewater canoes. Most are
made from ABS of some sort [Royalite, Royaltex, Oltenar] all come from
basic ABS sandwich stock. They should have a really tough glue for
mounting tie points and thigh harness to the bottom of the interior. IN
my experience .. NOTHING else will bond to the ABS.
Tothwolf wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Anyway, the metal on both machines seems to be in
good shape, but the
plastic leaves something to be desired. The ASR is mostly just dirty,
but there is a crack at the left rear screw position. The KSR is
cleaner as it was used less, but it was stored improperly in a box and
dropped or something and the plastic upper case (the gray case, not
the white/yellow cover over the carriage) is broken into several
pieces. So does anybody have recommendations as to glue or other
solutions? Is someone sitting on a big stock of spare upper shells?
Use a glue specially for ABS plastic. Most so-called plastic and model
glues are for polystyrene and won't bond ABS since they are not strong
enough. Let me know what you find, since I'm also looking for glue to use
on tons of broken ABS cases. I've been told that there is a glue made for
an ABS type of drain pipe. PVC glue won't work either, it tends to damage
ABS plastics.
-Toth 
12 Dec
12 Dec
3:11 a.m.
Hi,
I tend to use "Araldite" (hrm, spelling looks wrong, could be arildite or
some other combination that sounds like the above). It's an epoxy, and
seems to hold just about anything.
Latest thing I fixed with it was one of the securing mounts for the front
cover of a rackmount BA23 - the velcrow bits. The metal it was attached to
had come detatched from the rest of the cover, so I araldited a small
piece of wood in the gap - can't see it's been done unless you look
closly, and it goes the job great :&)
I also used to to repair the broken plastic hinge on my Compaq LTE 5100,
but that's another story :&)
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the plastic
upper case (the gray case, not
the white/yellow cover over the carriage) is broken into several
pieces. So does anybody have recommendations as to glue or other
solutions? Is someone sitting on a big stock of spare upper shells?
Use a glue specially for ABS plastic. Most so-called plastic and model
glues are for polystyrene and won't bond ABS since they are not strong
enough. Let me know what you find, since I'm also looking for glue to use
on tons of broken ABS cases. I've been told that there is a glue made for
an ABS type of drain pipe. PVC glue won't work either, it tends to damage
ABS plastics.
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