Headlight brocken tabs Options

[marinos]

Hello guys,
did anybody deal with brocken tubs?
How did you repaire them? I have fount a set of a celica that was scraped and most of the tubs are broken.
I m considering to repaire them with a plastic weld kit, the one that is similar to a soldering iron.
But I don't know what kind of plastic is tha headlight housing made of, and if this method is good
for the celica headlights.
I need you opinions and your experience if any!
Thank you in advance guys

This post has been edited by marinos: Oct 15, 2015 - 11:06 AM

[marinos]

So I have made my first plastic weld on an old headlight before applying this to my jdm headlights and it seems to work great!
The weld has a bit flex but I didn't add any extra material. Anthough this was made just for test I m happy with the result and
I have order some gray plastic welding rods out of PP which the headlight housing is made of to make a better bond.
What I havent mentioned already is that I have used also a very thin aluminium mesh in order to rainforce the weld.

Here is a photo for your reference, I hope this will help more people in this forum.



Note in this photo I m holding the headlight from the tab and it holds strong, with some flex that will be eliminated by the extra material
that I already have ordered.

The link of the plasting rods:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PP-Plastic-weldi...UgAAOxyrxZR3mKM

This post has been edited by marinos: Nov 7, 2015 - 11:50 AM