A bellends MK3 1.6 Golf. Mystic Blue 3door - Recaro's or BBS RX-II's?

[Bellend]

Cheers guys! 

Been doing a bit on it now, just having tea and gonna go get a soldering iron with a plastic welding attatchment and some fibreglass.

It's held solid, altho this particular Aldarite doesn't dry solid unlike the last one which isn't an issue just I'd have prefered it too. The plastic welding has gone through to the back, so it's a solid weld and am going to fibreglass both sides. 

[Bellend]

Got this:


Brilliant little kit, really going miles quicker now. All the gaps, I've been cutting down strips of the off cuts and filling them with plastic, then melting it all together. It's a more lengthy process then just tacking it the whole way but it's actually all one piece of plastic now, rather then two or three bits. 

Just doing it every other 2" at the moment then will do it all over.



It LOOKS like I've just ran a hot soldering iron over the two pieces but I haven't. Gone right through with the soldering iron til it was all molten then filled in with plastic then smoothed it over. It's the same process as metal welding but much stronger. 

Halfords wouldn't sell me fibreglass cause I'm not 18, apparently I might get high off it.  Luckilly dad took me down there.

Just got along the number plate, then it's all in line, go along with the welding, then get the fibreglass on it, then I will out a small amount of body filler in and shape any imperfections. You could just use fibreglass but it will crack easier in a bump.

[Bellend]

Soldering iron went bang. 

Turns out it doesn't have a thermo or a timer cut out. 

Take it back, get another one.

Soo nearly there as well. 

Got one side pretty much done so whacked out the fibreglass:





It's lined up. 

[Bellend]

How tight it is:


Gay things happened tbh. Dad picked it up from the top, it bent and heard lots of snap noises.

All the tacks I put along the top all snapped. 

But all the left hand side where I have finished the plastic welding from the front held up fine, as did the fibreglass on top.  So it's strong.

The fibreglass came out one bit I didn't plastic weld, as there was a bit of a gap:


So, I cut this:


and am doing that everywhere, so there isn't more then 2mm that isn't solidly plastic welded. Not sure if I'm gonna carry on with the fibreglass or just fill the welds. I may Alderite the welds, then fibreglass purely the imperfections then filler on top. Dunno, I'm not at college Monday so I will be getting the soldering iron swapper tomorrow, solidly plastic welding and then I'm going out so will take it to work Monday and get my bosses advice. 

Pleased with this though:

[Bellend]

Welded!


The bit missing:





Just put a tiny bit of fibre glass on, will rub that right down and fill it.

Welded the other side too, possibly going to bond a metal strip on top of the joins.

It's absolutely solid though, well chuffed. 

[Bellend]

Couldn't find a spreader, so:


 

DONE:


 

Literally couple of pin holes I'd just filled in that pic but nibbed them off.

Just gotta rub the rest down and prime it. Probs do it Wednesday. 

Oh and made these for temp measures:

[SoundillusioN]

good going...  how much was your new toy then?

[Bellend]

Cheers.  20 quid on trade.

After it went bang I welded it with a gas torch and feeded plastic strips  into it.

[stow1985]

Looking good, great idea with the smooothing,

its a race now to see whos smoothed bumpers last the longest 

[Bellend]

Looking good, great idea with the smooothing,

its a race now to see whos smoothed bumpers last the longest 

Cheers.

 

Mines been plastic welded solidly though, I'll warm you. 

Barely any thickness to the filler on there haha.