Biohazard
Time to work on these grilles. Everyone knows how much fun this is, especially the hours you spend reading the package of every adhesive on the shelf at Home Depot only to have that one seemingly perfect glue bond to your project about as effectively as baby oil.
Loctite's super glues...don't bother. I am having good results from JB weld's Plastic Welder putty (comes in a stick).
After breaking down the grille assembly, I glued the missing chunks back into the rest of the surround with the JB putty, let it set up, sanded the joints down on the visible side, and lightly sanded the entire inside (for paint prep) and the outside (for better bonding).
I wrapped the surround with some lockwire once the broken-out pieces were reattached to help pull the entire assembly together. It's also keeping all the cracks pulled together so that I can just go around the outside and add some plastic welder putty.
Time to work on these grilles. Everyone knows how much fun this is, especially the hours you spend reading the package of every adhesive on the shelf at Home Depot only to have that one seemingly perfect glue bond to your project about as effectively as baby oil.
Loctite's super glues...don't bother. I am having good results from JB weld's Plastic Welder putty (comes in a stick).
After breaking down the grille assembly, I glued the missing chunks back into the rest of the surround with the JB putty, let it set up, sanded the joints down on the visible side, and lightly sanded the entire inside (for paint prep) and the outside (for better bonding).
I wrapped the surround with some lockwire once the broken-out pieces were reattached to help pull the entire assembly together. It's also keeping all the cracks pulled together so that I can just go around the outside and add some plastic welder putty.
