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The top arm wasn't doing the job properly and I could see that it's
made in two parts (top and bottom) which were separating, so I took it off and prised it apart completely. I thought it might click back together but no - damned thing was glued and prising simply unstuck the stuck glue (IYSWIM). Off to the orange shed for something to stick it back together and found some Evostick 'Serious Glue', which was the only thing that claimed to work at high temperatures and in the wet (superglues etc all warn off use in water). Stuck it back together, waited 24hr to get a full strength bond. Ran the dishwasher tonight......and there was the bottom half of the arm sitting in the bottom tray. Ironically, a new arm (already ordered from Partsmaster) was only 2.99 (plus the same in P+P, of course), compared with the fiver for the glue. Somehow I suspect that a solventy-thing (like model aeroplane glue) would do a better job as, to some extent, it would weld the plastic (I know straight chloroform works well for perspex, for example), but does anyone have any positive experience of trying to do this or is it just a no-go? |
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