Author Topic: Smoothing Bumpers - plastic weld or buy GRP???  (Read 2819 times)

Offline Jamin

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Re: Smoothing Bumpers - plastic weld or buy GRP???
« Reply #10 on: 31 May 2012, 21:10 »
Those bumpers are proper nice.......£375 quid is a bit expensive though

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Re: Smoothing Bumpers - plastic weld or buy GRP???
« Reply #11 on: 31 May 2012, 21:13 »
How much have you guys paid for Plastic Welding and smoothing their bumpers???

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Re: Smoothing Bumpers - plastic weld or buy GRP???
« Reply #12 on: 31 May 2012, 21:20 »
cant you use polyester stopper? my old mans been smoothing parts with it for years and has never had a problem

i thought this was the way it was done too :-/
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Re: Smoothing Bumpers - plastic weld or buy GRP???
« Reply #13 on: 31 May 2012, 21:22 »
cant you use polyester stopper? my old mans been smoothing parts with it for years and has never had a problem

i thought this was the way it was done too :-/

Its the old schhol way ;) works well! used it to do away my moldings on my old 8v

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Re: Smoothing Bumpers - plastic weld or buy GRP???
« Reply #14 on: 31 May 2012, 23:37 »
Plastic welding would be OK but may flex and crack.
Personally I would go with the new bumpers.
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