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Re: [TR] Bakelite - best glue?

To: "Jim Wallace" <grandfatherjim@gmail.com>, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Bakelite - best glue?
From: Doug Mathews <mathews@uga.edu>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:44:03 -0400
Here is a url to a bakelite repair pdf.  I'm not sure if it will help 
any, but you be the judge!
http://www.azarc.org/journal_articles/17.1_2000_Spring/Busted_Bakelite.pdf
Doug
At 11:08 AM 7/3/2006, you wrote:
>After storing my control head with its stator tube for years, I managed to
>drop it yesterday, whereupon a chunk of bakelite broke cleanly off. It looks
>as though it won't impair the operation and so I would like to glue it back
>on so that it stays put. When I place the piece in position the crack is
>almost imperceptible.
>I have not had great success with gluing bakelite before - not that I have
>tried many times - maybe because it is so porous. I am thinking epoxy but am
>not confident in its longevity, given the exposure to the sun.
>Advice?
>TIA,
>Jim Wallace
>60TR3A TS81417L


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