Plastic Welding with Soldering Iron

[Pilotgeek]

I can smell the burning plastic from here <3

[druno82]

Oh man, that has got to be an awful, awful smell.

[arescraft]

What's the point of this video???

[blobloblo6]

@arescraft To show a technique of plastic soldering. Are you blind?

[arescraft]

@blobloblo6

everyone knows how to plastic solder. Are you stupid or just trolling?

[blobloblo6]

@arescraft Your statement is false. Plastic soldering isn't some skill humans are born with. Are you high?

[coaxialgyro]

take note of the metal pin reinforcement, otherwise this is just a rediculas fix turning perfectly good plastic ,brittle. Next time, use a bolt on metal braket ,there is no melting solution to fix problem.

[tubesteak0u812]

funny I also use the black plastic spoons, forks, knives as extra welding plastic when fixing broken plastics the flow is much better than the white tho I have never fixed a wheel with them but it works well in the automotive field when plastic panels break or crack, it takes some practice but after awhile you get real good at it, plus after asking the Snap On guy for years for a good plastic welder he has only recently finally got a good one will be getting it soon then no more spoons for me

[rpruneau68]

The repair itself appears to be sufficient, but since it's a rotating object (i.e. wheel) it will need to balance & a similar amount of material (weight) will need to be added to the opposite side of the axle, otherwise, you will feel like you had a flat spot every rotation, thud, thud, thud....

[AlkoHol62]

I am very interested to know what type of plastic was added to the weld? thanks

[mmccambridge]

@AlkoHol62 what I've seen them do is find a completely trashed version of the same thing they're repairing, ie another Honda fender, and cut it into strips to use as filler on the one they're fixing. Or they slice a thin strip off from the part itself, from somwhere where you can't see it or it doesn't matter as much (ie take a slice from opening of water tank to repair hole in bottom). so then you know the filler is exactly the same mat'l as the part even if you can't identify type of plastic

[vipex1]

Bet that dude was off his nut at the end of that with all them fumes!

[fdc313]

Really good video, thanks for posting

[juulcrapuul1]

a good day of work ,and getting totaly wasted on plastic fumes ,better than meth yummy

[maurinquina]

Truly amazing. Men over machine.

[journeyquest1]

In the US the crooks would charge you 200 bucks for such a job. This guy will do it for 5 bucks.

[rooprat]

He is only fixing a wheel guys. Give your heads a wobble.

[ellis31688]

now everyones a fucking genius... i wish i had my 2 front teeth

[gokartbuilder101]

0:01 pause it

[BassnFlash]

Having lived in Vietnam, they could build a B52 out of C-ration cans!

[jamescgale]

And now we know where walmart buys their stuff.

[Stella0Stella]

technique is pretty good :-) ya gotta do, whatcha gotta do... some of us just can't go out a buy a new wheel... fix it, and keep it out of the landfill, I say... a'course that's no good help to an economy based on the "throw it away" principle... I always wondered... does all the crap we generate and toss, add to the overall mass of the planet? hummmmmmmm

[bobyouknowitsright]

@Stella0Stella

God i hope your kidding

[Stella0Stella]

@bobyouknowitsright _ duh... ;-) but try this one... two new continents are currently being formed, one in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific... giant masses of plastic particles trapped by the ocean currents right below the surface of the water... the one in the Pacific is twice the size of Texas... give it a couple of million years... a voila!

[mikkars250]

@Stella0Stella ummmmmmmmm? wouldn't the mass of the finished product = the combined mass of the raw materials?

[Stella0Stella]

@mikkars250 only if mass refers strictly to weight. Mass can refer to several other properties other than weight.

[mikkars250]

@Stella0Stella Nice try.

Mass (symbolized m ) is a dimensionless quantity representing the amount of matter in a particle or object. The standard unit of mass in the International System ( SI ) is the kilogram ( kg ).

[Stella0Stella]

@mikkars250

Mass is defined as the amount of matter an object has. One of the qualities of mass is that it has inertia. Mass is a measure of how much inertia an object shows. Weight depends on the force of gravity. Think of water... frozen, liquid, steam-by the time you convert it to gas (steam) the Mass has changed. We take a tree, burn it, changes the weight... the mass/weight of everything is constantly changing. BTW it was tongue-in-cheek... I love to think about the way things work. you?

[gammoria10]

@Stella0Stella Water as a liquid, ice, or vapor will have the same mass no matter what. It has the same amount of atoms, they are just re-arranged. Mass is NOT weight. The law of conservation of mass states that your products will have the same mass as the reactants. This of course does not take into account E=MC², which in the case of water's physical states is irrelevant.

[clawdfrawg]

@gammoria10 Thats why ice won't flout on top of water.

[gammoria10]

@clawdfrawg That's from the density of ice. The structure that the molecules take when water is frozen makes it less dense, thus it rises to the top of water. Mass is constant, it is just how much matter an object has. Weight is a measure of mass that is affected by gravity. Change in mass does not make something float or sink in water.

[clawdfrawg]

@gammoria10 In a nutshell, It wheighs the same & has greater mass when you freeze it. I think I agree with you just not you're wording.

[gammoria10]

@clawdfrawg It's actually greater volume with the SAME mass, but you get the idea. I.E. it's the same amount of stuff, just spread out over a larger area. Like... when you freeze water, it expands.

[rpruneau68]

@clawdfrawg Since when doesn't ice float??

[datzfast]

he is out doors, its not going to harm him in the least

[Emexrulsier]

I've fused plastic things together loads of times. If I have no soldering iron available I just use a knife that I heat up on an open flame.

[ScrewAttackChina]

not recommended kids!

[whoogie]

you shouldn't get a smoky effect the plastic has been heated to much and it wont last!!!

[tbirdpimp07]

ive done this alot on car bumpers its ok if its a part thats not gonna be moved or under any stress but it makes the plastic brittle and hard really all you need is a 10 dollar soldering iron nust make some stitches and smooth em over

[bubbyparker]

that would produce toxic plastic fumes and you probably shouldn't try it. third world people don't seem to care about that type of stuff.

[mageac]

i cant see plastic welding to have any worse fumes then steel welding...

[MacsCanfly]

oh no plastic has toxic ritten all over it believe me plastic fumes are the worst extremely toxic never breathe it i would never weld plastic it even smells toxic

[mageac]

well from what i heard the effects of plastic welding is very small compared to metal welding... im not a fan of Parkinsons myself

[andrewd5418]

Go weld some fucking Galvanized steel.

[brianwesley28]

@MacsCanfly

That's the first thing that I was going to say, as well. They should be careful not to breathe those fumes. Interesting that one can weld plastic with such low wattage. I was just thinking that I need a plastic welder. The one I want is several hundred dollars. I may be able to make due with a soldering iron for a while. Good video.

[MacsCanfly]

@brianwesley28 i sent you a link to a decent welder thats 155 dollars it would work much better than a soldering iron, and it has very good reviews

[constantlydoped]

Hey that guy in the blue shirt, at the start... is he taking a shit?

That's how chimps take a shit!

[Criptografo]

This is not resistant

[panama13]

That's pretty badass.

[hooverrepair]

That's the old school way. Props

[mmccambridge]

people have wondered about durability--the repaired wheel was able to complete 400,000 cycles of the "double drum" fatigue test of the ISO 7176 wheelchair standards (only 200,000 is required to pass). We never drop-tested it however, or had a real rider beat it to hell down stairs etc. I'd always assumed plastic wheels were "disposable"--this guy shows you can fix it more or less, if you throw enough extra plastic around the broken area.

[jcer93705]

@mmccambridge

Point is it's showing you how to do that, so you can do it on body parts and such for scooter or other things. Great video by the way.

[havox612]

haha theyre vietnamese

[littleohah]

fuck off no way ive tried this and it broke asoon as it was put into use

[morningstomper123]

Then you suck at it, basically.

[Roelzter]

This is real. This man is my new hero :)

[wheelzie1989]

LOL that is so bloody dodgy....that would split open again in 5 seconds flat.

if it was a split in the wheel he should have grooved it out then used a rod to at least solder weld some more plastic into the crack. To me it looked like polypropelene so its not like its a rrare plastic....oh well whatever does the quick fix. haha

[Deadfreeeak]

welcome to china.....LMAO

[wangkangluo1]

bro, this's not in china

[Mortalstrikeyou]

you'd see the same picture on chinas streets

[tonyinfinity]

@wangkangluo1 "this's"? lol

[336Torana]

I just did the same thing but on a small crack, if you work the melted plastic like he is (squish it into the crack) it fills it up.

I did one side first, then kept melting inside the crack, and quickly pushing more plastic in.

Came out perfect and I did the old RAAAGH! try and re crack it test with my arms and it help up fine!

Just don't play with the same spot too long or the plastic starts to blister.

[336Torana]

*held - not help....

[Soveperser]

That can't be healthy.

[owvenus]

am sure that weld turned out very brittle

[336Torana]

I just tried it and it works perfectly fine

[joekuta]

simple, humble

the work is very good

[do0die]

wow

[JerryMopar]

He did an excellent job for what he had!!

[4Mengineering]

wonderful work, as always!