Fairing repair
Posted: |March 12th, 2017|, 3:37 am
Hi..This might have been covered before..If not it might be useful info.
If you have a cracked fairing etc..normal practise is to get the fibre glass out which I've always found a crabby old experience and really identifies a repaired area.
I discovered Plastex a few years ago when using it on some kawasaki zxr750r h2 fairings to repair lugs that had broken off.
Basically plastex is really fine, almost a dust granulated plastic which then gets a solvent mixed in with it and then becomes solid plastic.
If a panel is just cracked I use a soldering iron to run down the crack. This then melts the crack together and creates a groove. You then fill the groove with plastex add the solvent and let it cure. Then repeat on the other side. You then basically have a panel as strong as it let the factory, 100% plastic so no mismatch with material strength.
I've recently done my xtra raptor panel which had a nasty split and section completely broken off. Just a tiny bit off filling now required and it's ready to paint!
You can also mould complete missing areas and missing lugs with the moulding bars you get in the pack...packs are about £25 from eBay.
Hopefully this might help somone who is unfortunate and suffers some damage as getting replacements is pretty impossible.
If you have a cracked fairing etc..normal practise is to get the fibre glass out which I've always found a crabby old experience and really identifies a repaired area.
I discovered Plastex a few years ago when using it on some kawasaki zxr750r h2 fairings to repair lugs that had broken off.
Basically plastex is really fine, almost a dust granulated plastic which then gets a solvent mixed in with it and then becomes solid plastic.
If a panel is just cracked I use a soldering iron to run down the crack. This then melts the crack together and creates a groove. You then fill the groove with plastex add the solvent and let it cure. Then repeat on the other side. You then basically have a panel as strong as it let the factory, 100% plastic so no mismatch with material strength.
I've recently done my xtra raptor panel which had a nasty split and section completely broken off. Just a tiny bit off filling now required and it's ready to paint!
You can also mould complete missing areas and missing lugs with the moulding bars you get in the pack...packs are about £25 from eBay.
Hopefully this might help somone who is unfortunate and suffers some damage as getting replacements is pretty impossible.