Fairing Repairs

[Skorpion660]

Has anyone with damage to Traveller Fairing tried self repair and if so any hints/tips?

[kman.45]

Hey, I've used Marine-Tex to repair plastic panels before. My 1985 Suzuki had plastic panels that had long plastic nipples that you shoved into a rubber donut washer to hold them on the bike. Well, after a while these nipples would break off, or were especially fragile in the slightest tipover. The plastic on these bikes was very hard and brittle too, and would crack easily.

Using Marine Tex we could "glue" the nipples back on, and they always stayed. To repair a crack you could glue on another piece of plastic on the back side.

The product is a two part epoxy and gets hard enough to drill and tap according to the instructions. I used it for several things like that and it was brilliant. Supposedly it was developed to repair about anything on a boat, stripped threads, water tight seals, etc. I might guess there are some products like it at car parts stores too?

[maxgain]

I also need to repair a plastic fairing on my Skorp. A friend recommended plastic repair kit. He has fixed his fairings a couple of times and found this to be good. M&P sell it. Check out the link below.

http://www.mandp.co.uk/productInfo.aspx?catRef=501813

Click on where it says Workshop pack and scroll to handy pack. Its about £10.


Regards - Stu

[DAVID THOMPSON]

one of the devisions of the loctite brand make plastic repair stuff
the are part of a group of brand names that make a bunch of stuff for
auto repair industry
2 links that may help

http://www.loctiteproducts.com/glue.asp?PLID=661

http://www.instantsolutions.loctite.com/faster_general.htm

search word loctiteA

[sapperk9]

I did mine about 18 months ago. I cleaned the backside of each hole to the raw material with my Dremel, cut a small patch (30mmx30mm) of stainless steel mesh, and then glooped it all over with JB Weld.

Re-drilled the hole, replaced all the original mushroom head screws with polished stainless and cut new plastic washers with a wadding punch, and no problems since. In fact it is better fitting than original and looks 100% too.

The pic shows these screws and washers and my cheeep radiator cowl made from expanded aluminium mesh, and car door surround "U" channel plastic stuff. About $5.00 Oz.