Hey while I’m having so much fun repairing the trunk hinge and its torsion bar suspension, a "while I’m at it" took hold of me… These tend to balloon into far more compacted projects than at first one would suspect.


One of the taillight lens' and its housing was badly cracked when I got the car. This was the result of something running into the back of the car or vise-versa. It is always a point of debate when getting a state safety inspection sticker, and a point of too expensive to replace for this person of Scotch heritage if you get my drift.

The lens is just cracked, with no white light showing, so I just want to stabilize the whole assembly by cementing the various chunks back together.

At some point when cosmetics have inched to the top of the “To-Do Listâ€￾, I’ll spring for a new pair of lenses, but not this year.

Bill

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67' Dart GT Convertible; the old Chrysler Corp.
82' LeBaron Convertible; the new Chrysler Corp
07' 300 C AWD; Now by Fiat, the old new Chrysler LLC

Super glue and/or clear packing tape, if you are cheap.

No, no, don't use super glue. It'll whiten and opacify the plastic in the vicinity of the glue joint. Use plastic model cement which remains transparent when it sets, or you could flow-coat the whole cracked area with water-clear epoxy.

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Dan, could you expand on this method? I'm not acquainted with water-clear epoxy.
Which type of plastic model cement do you recommend? Unlike the good old days when a kid could get wonderful carcinogen based cement that would instantly weld plastic... At last model building session with the boys, two decades ago, all that was available was nice smelling green environmental friendly glue stuff that did not work so well, and wouldn’t make one’s head spin. Has the glue improved in the last twenty years?

Bill

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67' Dart GT Convertible; the old Chrysler Corp.
82' LeBaron Convertible; the new Chrysler Corp
07' 300 C AWD; Now by Fiat, the old new Chrysler LLC

AHA! I knew I was wrong!

Tape?

Reed, sorely you just.

Got to go eat, smell of roasted chicken had penetrated the Man Cave…

Bill

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67' Dart GT Convertible; the old Chrysler Corp.
82' LeBaron Convertible; the new Chrysler Corp
07' 300 C AWD; Now by Fiat, the old new Chrysler LLC

Well, you said you were cheap. I was just throwing out ideas of clear things that stick other things together. I like the clear epoxy idea.

It is epoxy that cures perfectly colorless and transparent.
Take a walk on the wild side.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.