Service Focus: Plastic Welding
Welding is to unite (metallic parts) by heating and allowing the metals to flow together or by hammering . Repaired water tank fig 1.1 The same could be said for Plastic welding, well maybe without the hammers. However as you can see in fig 1.1 on the right it isn't always as simple as that. When you are welding with metals, it is important that the materials you weld with match those used in the construction of what you are trying to repair and this is the same for plastics, for the most part. If you know the material which something is made of, then you can use matching welding rods to repair the damaged area so long as the material was a thermo-plastic. Likewise; the colour, if important to the customer, can be matched relatively closely too. Sometimes the material cannot be matched for a number of reasons so an alternative is needed; Fibreflex. This welding material is a composite of plastic and fibreglass which, rather than mixing with the base material, uses its own stre