Tools, Tips and Tricks

[r_wesseling (Rindert Wesseling (Louisville,CO))]

@madflower69

I thought matco was rebadged like Lincoln. It looks like abs. I have terrible luck with glue and plastic. I personally would try to plastic weld it, but I have cheap soldering iron with the digital temp control. I wouldn’t do it with normal iron, they get to hot and you have to be very quick to not burn through, and you end up losing plastic. An 80 dollar part that is going to get stressed isn’t a good first project. Kids toys are much better. But if I cool the tip down with a damp sponge, have the part glued to kind of hold it, then stitch quickly across perpendicular break with the soldering iron, I have gotten it to -hold- using a soldering iron. But I haven’t tried that with ABS.

Here I have spliced a dimmer switch into a short extension cord. The volt meter gives me an indication of how hot the soldering iron is going to be.
Rindert