When I had that problem, I cut away the part that had lifted and replaced the
entire area with epoxy.
philpatt@kalamazoo.net wrote:
> > I've repaired a couple of steering wheels and found it to be a
> > fairly simple
> > project.
> > I used epoxy with a thickening agent......I used microballoons
> > (fiberglasglass
> > balls).
>
> My TR2 steering wheel has cracks at the outside end of the spokes ("T"
> style). For at least one of them, your method will work to seal the crack,
> but one of them, the plastic has cracked and lifted away from the "spokes".
> Do you (or anyone else) have suggestions on how to bend that back down? The
> two thoughts I've had are:
>
> A) Heat that portion, and "re-mold" it back down against the spokes, then
> apply epoxy,
> or
> B) Do the epoxy repair first (resulting in quite a healthy bump), and sand
> the original plastic and the new epoxy back down to reform the original
> shape.
>
> Comments anyone? Other ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Phil Pattengale
> 54 TR2 - TS1440-LO {project #1}
> 56 TR3 - TS13872-L {project #2}
> philpatt@kalamazoo.net
> http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Track/2890/
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