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Default plastic shelf/top-of-bottom-drawer cracked: how to fix?

David Combs wrote:
Someone a few years (10) ago gave us an old refrig that
we use as 2nd refrig.

That bottom drawer -- slides out -- stationary shelf that
it slides in and out under is clear plastic (other shelves
are made of matrix of metal rods) are of course strong,
not likely to ever break or even bend.

But this bottom (cheap) plastic shelf is cracked and
bending down in the middle.

What can I do to fix it before it completely fails?

What, try to find another piece of hard plastic to
bond to it? Where would I find that?


Of course I could google for replacement, but
it's so old, etc, not really worth too much.

Nice cheap fix would be really great!

Any ideas?


Thanks

David


I patch things occasionally with a piece of glass fabric impregnated
with epoxy. Mesh tape used for drywall cracks could work. Plain glue
would be no good as you need to beef up the old plastic's structure.
Won't be pretty but will be functional.