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Default Repairing Bakelite

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On Monday, 11 February 2019 11:47:29 UTC, Graeme wrote:

A vintage radio site suggests Araldite as an adhesive - unless anyone
has a better idea?


Epoxy works but do support the join with the added plate.


Thanks all. Araldite seems to be the way forward, with a strip of
brass underneath, all wafted over with blowtorch or possibly hot air
gun.

JOOI, this is a pre war Bayko base, from when the product was true
Bakelite, and called Bayko Light Engineering. Bayko Light. Geddit?


I've still got my Bayko, and I'm pretty sure one of the green bases got
broken in half, and it was repaired with what would have been ordinary
domestic glue in the early 1950s (probably the Croyde brown stuff, which
I can still remember the smell and taste of!). Last time I looked at it,
the join was still holding fast.

I wonder how much Bayko is still around these days?
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Ian