Scored this now I gotta fix it

I scored this Starwars style air cleaner. It was cheap but now I gotta figure out how to fix the broken off pieces.

The fins in one area are rubbed smooth...

the intake on both sides have pieces broke off.

For those of you that do not know this is a plastic item not metal.

Anyone know what I can uses to shape and make the missing/broke off pieces and how to bond it to the air cleaner.

I also got to fill the letter holes and the buick badge since this is going on a ford

 

Sell it to some Buick nut, they pay crazy money for those!

 

Yeah I know. I bid on 5 or 6 oth them and never got close. the cheapest one I saw went for 600.00.

I wanna keep it cause I think it will go well on the Galaxie. I just got to figure out how to fix it.

 

Bttt

 

A friend who occasionally repairs Japanese bikes tells me that autobody supply places have a good selection of products made for repairing plastics.

Slonaker

 

Mutt,
I would try one of these two produt lines/sites:

www.alumilite.com and see www.hobbyengineering.com (iirc) for the site that sells it. I am going to use this to reproduce some plastic spoiler brackets no longer made for one of my cars. I would use the alumilite modeling clay to make the insert piece that will fill the missing, broken off pieces and make a mold from that to make the plastic piece. Then glue it on.

Also try www.urethanesupply.com , as they have many supplies for plastic bumpers and the like where you could use the filler -type products for the minor imperfections (to include the low ribs) and maybe where the alumilite pieces are attached for smoothing it over. I don't think that they would be applicable for the larger areas to replace (the missing broken off pieces) unless you use the SS mesh that they sell. For this site, you will have to ID the plastic type. I came across this site looking for stuff to fix my kayak.

Either way, check out the examples of stuff that they can fix, it's pretty cool.

Hope this helps
Slate

 

this should be a good one for the guys here that are into model cars.

 

I'd pull a mold off of it, make a fiberglass copy to keep and sell the thing if I owned it. Because you own it ...I'd pull a mold off of it, make a fiberglass copy for YOU to keep and keep it as payment....lol


Jon

 

That Baby is off a 67 GS 400, They were a bitchen car. Mine would blow the doors off of GTO's.--TV

 

Is that what they call "Star Wars"?

Also, any Buick guys reading this. I picked up 9 pair of new still packaged Mr. Gasket Ultra Seal exhaust manifold gaskets, part #5957. They sell for $20+ per pair. I'll sell'm for $7 a pair, or take'm all for $50. That's a deal.

 

JonP,
You can buy silicone mold making stuff from that hobby enginering place. I am doing that to make the brackets I prev. mentioned. I am buying the "HDII" stuff - you can get ~50-75 molds out of it using mold release. Just get the original right first, so you don't mold the imperfections!!

 

Hey! we looked at that exact one on e-bay a while back!
have you thought about good ol J.B. weld and some paint? it says on the tube grind it weld it shape it....just a thought.

cool lid,tho'

 

I have had good luck with a Devcon 2-part epoxy for plastic in the past. They do quite a few different ones.

Check them out at ...

http://www.devcon.com/devconcatsolution.cfm?catid=26