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How to repair a bumper with the polyvance plastic welder
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2022
- We had some GREAT times at the Eastwood Summer Classic last weekend. So many great vendors came out to show off their unique products. This demo by Polyvance demonstrates exactly how to use they Mini-Weld 7 plastic welder to repair a bumper.
Find this tool at Eastwood:www.eastwood.com?+home
I haven't seen a welding rod in this video yet
I bought a plastic welding kit from Harbor Freight for like $10… You’re website selling these for nearly $100 😂
@RC-zb8tl
Sounds about right. I use a soldering gun or pencil. Sometimes I'll use a heat gun with a focused tip.
I love telling people that I can weld their piece of plastic. 😂
Its a legit kit. I used fiber flex welding rod to repair plastic parts for cotton pickers. I made a good living cutting and welding broken panels like metal.
I've fix a 4 wheelers plastic fuel tank with a soldering gun and a few zip ties melted into the crack of the tank
Still holds fuel 8 years later
Have you ever made a crackhead welder from a couple batteries while out on the trail? That’s the most satisfying welding possible.
I've recently seen someone use black zip ties to fill in holes on bathroom partitions where they drilled a hole in the wrong place.
@@lindboknifeandtool you made a bomb
I think you got lucky with your plastic source. Many types of plastic don’t melt well or mix well
@@lindboknifeandtool i need to know how to do this please tell me or give me a link to an instructional video when you have time
When i was a body guy i used to take broken bumpers, cut like rods from them, and store them in a labled bag, in the future i could always repair with the same plastic
I do exactly the same but I weld them in correctly 👍
Great idea!
Nice nice nice great idea yes.
Insurance now days wont pay shit. No more than about 4-6 hours on covers that are smoked. With all the other money to be had in an estimate i just tell them to get one coming. I aint got time to fuck with it
Sounds like a excellent idea 💡 👍
My dad has been doing this with a soldering gun and windows screen for years. It's shocking how well it holds
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Perfect use of useless window screens
Newbie here to this kind of repair, what is the purpose of soldering the metal screen? Is it to support the adhesive that comes after
@@Jackdman25 The plastic meshes into it so I guess it would give it better structural rigidity
@@HoloScope good to know thanks
Like it. Better than my 2 part epoxy with fiberglass tape
Got distracted by your bike now im watching power washing videos
I think your way is better and longer lasting if applied properly... his creates a bit of a weak spot in some situations
Glass + epoxy is the way to go. Far stronger.
@@motosk8er2 I’ve had good success with glass/ epoxy
@@rez372 glad to know I'm not the only one who does that!
That's a damn soldering iron and we all know
You can buy a regular soldering iron then flatten the tip with a hammer while the soldering iron is hot preferably dark red hot but make sure not to hammer to much but it will be the same thing as in this video.
They are made differently
No. Welding and soldering are two different processes. Welding is seamlessly joining materials together it can be metal or it can be thermoplastics. But welding involves melting the material to create the join.
Soldering is when you heat two parts and use solder which has a lower melting point to join them or create an electrical connection.
This can also describe brazing. Brazing is hotter and not suitable for all metals and it also always involves capillary action, which may or may not be employed in soldering.
Yes this may look like a soldering iron, but it is being used to weld plastic. That’s what it was made for.
@@emilchandran546 He's not saying that the process is soldering. He is saying that the tool is a soldering iron. Which it is. The tip is simply wider. It is still a soldering iron, with a ceramic heater. I assure you, you're being pedantic, but you misread the material.
@@emilchandran546 he’s not welding. He said he’s not welding in the video you deaf potato
Use to do snowmobile fuel tanks years ago, soldiering iron and milk jugs. Friend and I put a V8 in an '86 Ford Ranger, took the heater housing and cut the corner that interfered with the valve cover, flipped the curve to dish in. Smoothed it all out welding it with a soldiering iron and a sacrificial 2nd heater box. Took the truck to car shows and there was always somebody that would ask where we bought that heater housing. Ha ha, good times.
Literally nobody cares
@@FC0BCA7E7A about you. You would’ve been sterilized had anyone known what you’d be like
@@FC0BCA7E7A I care. it’s a neat story
nice
@@FC0BCA7E7A apparently you do based on you replying, who hurt you sweetheart?
Love it and had to do it... my 2002 BMW Z3M roadster has a low front end and let's say I didn't see bump😢 so just one of the plastic parts I needed was over $1800. I had over $9k in broken plastic so I learned how to do this. My paint wasn't damaged only plastic under my front end. Worked great and been 5 years now. 🥰
Similar story here... dog ran in front of me one day and ripped my bumper in half. Used a similar plastic welder to get to back to looking factory. Took some time but well worth it to save the $1500+ for a new bumper
@@formulafpv1949 how was the dog?
@@babatunde8812 He fiber flexed the back legs with the welding rod. Let’s just say he won’t be running into the street anymore.
@@formulafpv1949 uhh dog????
Now this for a change is a useful informative video. No bull, just useful! Thank you.
Eventualy figured out the mesh settings but awesome tip on preheating the bonding piece prior to placement. 👍
Heavy duty staples work well also, and I drill a small hole at the end of the crack to keep it from cracking more.
Drilling the ends of cracks is the same in aerospace
I used to work for a kayak rental company and I had to repair plastic kayaks with these a couple times a year. Holds incredibly well, never had a single repair fail even after years of abuse
I’ve been doing this for 30 years. Glad someone finally caught up and offer a product that works.
I’m gonna try one of those welding rods. Ext time I run out of 7018 at q work. ….🤷🏽♂️
🤣🤣🤣😭
Underated AF! 🤣🤣🤣
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Soldering iron and cable ties 😉
Universal knowledge right there brother.. I got in a fight once and chipped my front tooth. A little melted zip tie and she's good to go!
@@lifeimitatingdeath3608 better universal tip : don't get hit in the mouth.
Everyone has a plan, till they get hit in face!
~Mike Tyson
Every Waffle House Has Its Host. Its over. 😮
@@theantagonist631😂🤣 Goddem
Since I've learned that you could easily weld a plastic part, i have saved many things from being thrown away and even impressed a few friends who thought i used some type of super glue to fix those plastic things. Now i am experimenting a few combination methods for welding plastics together for added strength. Thanks youtube for telling me you can weld plastic.
Use mine all the time at work. You can save so many parts with this tool. Customers love it!
Chicken wire and Bondo have entered the chat
I use 2 part epoxxy but ok.
Epoxy with chicken wire ofc.
You can also buy a 20 dollar soldering iron and hammer the solder iron tip flat while its hot then you have the same exact effect. Also just use some screen door material you can buy that stuff in rolls of 8 yrds or more for around $10 just cut it to the size you need and youll never have to buy another.
You can use wood burning tips as well.
Harbor freight has one for $18
He's mainly selling the plastic filler, hence why he describes its properties the most.
Who is saying it's not?
I just bought a plastic welder from Harbor Freight! This video explains how to use! Very helpful!
So I did this 10 years ago with a plastic cup and a soldering iron that I had for electronics. Glad someone made a real product! Where are my royalties though?
I built a whole custom bumper with this method. A torch works a whole lot faster but it's also a whole lot more dangerous lmao.
Holy shit someone who actually understands what welding means
That's how I did my canoe. I went to Walmart and bought a plastic watering jug for plants. I cut it up in little strips . No more water in the boat
I used to repair skateboard rails back in the 80s like this. I was 13 years old all my friends brought me their boards to fix them . Who would've thought they would adapt this to bumper repair.
This is going to change my whole life.
Keep featherin’ it, brother.
Underrated comment...Iykyk
When I started auto body. This was the 1st thing that I bought. A plastic welder. I love this tool.
I’ve been fixing plastic bumper and other things like plastic wheel wells with a Bic Lighter and spare plastic melted like welded beads. You got this done before I did. I was going to make a kit like that with a selection of different plastics and the parts all have a number in the mold representing the materials used. Right on man!😏❤️🖖🏼🇺🇸
I use a nitrogen-plastic welder so that the repair is bonded. Holds up better than glue or your melt glue!
I melted butter a couple times in a hot skillet over a stove. Still smells like butter 3 years later.
Used this product and technique to fix a fender on my fourwheeler that had completely broken off. Works great and is pretty easy to do!
I've always got some kinda plastic that's broken or cracked and experiment a lot with my old soldering iron to fix things! This looks like a great process as well!
If only bumpers had perfectly straight and even lines cut into them when they are damaged
Well it wouldn't really make that much of a difference you still just spread into the cracks
Like a cross between welding and masonry
Been doing this exact repair since the late 90s. Old technology but good technology.
I used that stuff 20 yrs ago on golfcarts . WORKS GREAT !!!!
If you don't have any stainless steel wire mesh, wire wool works just as well.
Ah yes. Welding.
Yes plastic welding used a lot in collision shops
You can weld things other than metal there Evan...
As a welder, yeah that's _technically_ welding, which is the melting of two materials to fuse them together, but it's also _technically_ just a goddamn soldering iron
@@richardmillhousenixon it's not welding though. He said don't melt the bumper because they don't combine. It's glueing with extra steps.
@@Bouldergoat the second part, yes. But the first one definitely was welding
I needed this video 3 years ago
Works good. My first job was to repair and paint bumpers on car lots. Used this every single day.
That's pretty cool. I always wondered. Very similar to a repair we perform in the petroleum industry.
Hit a Deer on the way to my old work one morning.
I had to use a map torch and some random plastic packaging garbage found in my truck to plastic weld my radiator reservoir in the parking lot of work during my lunch break.
Made it home just fine.
Gotta love a working man with tools 😊💕
Please, a ten year old child can use this. It's a glorified soldering iron.
My dad and I have done this 25 years ago when we use to fix things in his shop.
Done the reinforcement on the back before but I never tried it on the front. I used flexible epoxy to fill in the front and sanded it down, hit with high build primer sanded and sealed before painting. Never thought I could get a good looking repair if I melted it right to the front.
Panel beating is such a lost art. Great to see some actual repair.
Still the GOAT… consistently a FORCE after all these years…
Super satisfying to watch 👍 great product!!!
Very cool to know about this! If I ever get a car with plastic bumpers, I am all set.
this would have been so perfect for so many projects I had in the past and even the present
High school was awesome. I remember seeing 2 part apoxy stronger than steel in auto body. Learned to use this stuff on a bumper in auto body back in like 02
😍😍Been doing this since 2010 put 2004 evo bumpers on 95 mirage. Still intact to this day.💯🙏🏾💯🤟🏿
Thanks for showing me how to use my new toy. I don’t have this same one but it’s very similar in style
Eastwood always has some pretty cool products and always very useful quick easy to use and get used to
Remember real bumpers, the metal ones....ahhhh good times!
I love this guy I love the scientific words that he’s using to fix the bumper Soldering Iron and some rubber plastic that’s all that is i’ve done it 100 times nothing special and some chicken wire
So that's how I messed up. I bought a plastic welder( soldering gun) with the black plastic pieces but it wouldn't hold. So now I know to melt a mesh in it too. Thank you for the video.
Harbor freight has these same plastic welder kits. 5+ years and the $5 welder works like a champ
I fixed my radiator with a propane torch, an old screwdriver, and some black zip-ties. I haven't needed to repair a bumper cover yet. But when I do, I'll try it
This is some guy being like “the zip tie trick is the best but it can be made idiot proof”. Good idea man, I’ll be picking some of this up.
I'll tell you what, I'm the best JB welder in town and this looks like a great investment
i love these trade show guys they are top level
Did a similar thing with window screen and ABS cement for stress cracks on my CBR front fender.
Did this years ago loved building cars and finding ways to mend myself but a good tool
Excellent communication with the customer.
I don’t entirely understand what I’m watching but I think it’s neat
I got myself one of these a few weeks ago with the stainless staples
Amazing but seeing this has explained what the huge triangle iron part is good for
This is cool. It does seem like something only someone with high attention to detail could make successful.
It’s awesome as a tech when I was young I would use black zip ties and a torch lighter to make repairs on broken dashboards 😂
It’s kinda like tig welding in a much scaled down way! Really cool too and useful
Cool. I do some of this work. Nice job.
We were doing this over twenty years ago with an adapted heater gun( we made a nozzle for the end) and cable ties.
Oh man, I wish I met a man like you years ago 🤣
I have used this it works well, just be careful not to get the iron to hot it will melt... My co-worker killed the heating element and after that he would heat it up with a torch... That was back in South Florida, glad I moved to Georgia
This 100000% works had it for 5 years still works like brand new only problem is the handle gets very hot even with safety gloves
Always wanted to learn how to do this it looks fun
That first close up looked like a trendy LVP flooring plank!
Made some diy wheel wells for a coworker at a dealership I worked at out of old license plates and accidentally put a screw into his washer fluid tank. So I just found a piece of thin plastic laying around and used my mini torch to melt it into the hole. Held for another 6 months until I quit to work in the oil refineries.
Works really good, I have repairs that are still good. And that's 2-3 yrs old
Done this with a propylene torch before, hot rod definitely the way to go
You can buy an aftermarket bumper cover from Rock Auto for less than the tool. Bumper cover for my daughter's 2011 Elantra was $29.24...
Aftermarket parts are junk and fit like junk
@@HackMasterBlaster People complain about aftermarket fit fail to make the realization that the accident that made the repair necessary to begin with could cause misalignment. If the structure man is good, the part will fit near perfect. If he sucks, even the OEM part will look like Fido's ass when it is put back on. The fitment issue is usually from a lazy tech just trying to turn more hours and not taking the time to get the structure back to where it belongs. It's like painting directly over e-coat. Yeah it will get the car out the shop quickly but won't last. Plus the stitching repair is changing the molecular structure of the OEM panel, possibly warping it or making it brittle.
I have not encountered a bad fiber fix product yet 👍👍
Thanks for showing. Cool stuff
It doesn't stick. It might work though. Best repairs that I perform on the regular is using an air/nitrogen welder. That iron we use is to smooth out the plastic after you've welded in the split.
Hey I did that to fill 6 holes in my moms CTS-V bumper. Turned out so smooth it looked like a black mirror.
had a tear in freightliner cascadia side skirt used a metal hanger cut and bent into small z's heated with propane torch pushed in with needle nose and a o ring pick did all down crack flipped to back side heated up a 3/8 rod melted back of crack together then sanded and bondoed outside crack. sand and paint between coats. my driver still has not noticed and did this job 8 months ago holds good 👍😊
Love the eastwood 2k can paint line would love to see more color options.
Looks alot better than my soldering iron & ziptie jobs
Excellent, i definitely wanted another reason to ingest more plastic.
Repairing a cracked windshield washer fluid reservoir with a hot glue gun. Run the hot tip of the gun over the path of the crack slowly to melt the plastic a little and then melt the glue into the melted plastic. Turned out great and is still working 20 years later. The end result was an invisible repair, it was the same opaque color!
So the wire mesh works but you have to make sure to use an argon heater on it afterwards and the plastic rod will 100% crack and flake off only use an argon heater to melt plastic using just heat drys out the plastic and makes it brittle
I actually love doing this
I always just used thin gauge wire through drilled holes twisted up tight and some gb ties for filler. This seems better but my dirt bike fender still works.
I even do that with my cheap stuff from walmart. Thats just a bigger version of the originals one! Its just the form it has that help.
I normally melt in the wire mesh, then use semi rigid bumper repair on the backside and flexible bumper repair on the outside
I melted zipties down for mine and it worked great
Well done... looks strong
Repaired ski bases like this many years ago 👍
I did this technique in 2000 working at Felder bumper sales