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Default Repairing Bakelite

On 11/02/2019 11:47, Graeme wrote:

Anyone experience of repairing Bakelite?Â* I have a piece about 7 inches
square which has snapped in half.Â* Thickness about 1/12 of an inch. Plan
is to glue the two edges and hold together, then add a plate on the
underside - brass, or possibly plastic, glued in place.

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


Araldite - use the 24 hour stuff and not the 10 minute variety. If
there are any missing pieces or gaps in the join the old trick was to
file down some "scrap" bakelite of the same colour and use it as a
filler in the epoxy.

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