Which glue to use?

[Cheesehead in flatland]

I bought some used saddle bags for the girlfriend's first bike, a Suzuki GZ 250 and found one of the clasps broken as shown in the picture. It seems to be plastic and looks like the two pieces will fit together tightly. Thought I'd ask for some advise before trying to use super glue.

 

Suggestions???

 

TIA,

Ken

Edited April 2, 2013 by Cheesehead in flatland
adding picture

[Eck]

I'm sorry, but the photo (to me) appears to be material of leather, not plastic..

If you are certain it is plastic, you can use a pencil type soldering iron and mold the plastic back together. You can also add more plastic if you need to by using a piece of your push around trash can by cutting a small piece (1"x1") from the overhang of the lid. Who cares its only trash can...use this piece as you heat up the broken section and melt the plastic from this 1x 1 ' piece to fill the void. Heat the void. Use the soldering iron to carefully smoothe out the voids.

This is better than gluing.

Take the pencil soldering iron and create a "V" between the mating piece and fill the voids with the extra plastic. Smooth it out using the soldering iron.. wha-lah..

Sand and paint to your liking..

[Cheesehead in flatland]

Thanks for the suggestion.

 

The broken part is plastic and is riveted on the side of the leather saddlebag. The camera on my phone doesn't show it very well.

[Cheesehead in flatland]

I replaced the picture. Hopefully this shows the broken clasp better.

[tz89]

I can't wait until I have my own 3-D printer and can print up new motorcycle parts.

 

My guess...

 

Remove the rivets, plastic weld the part, re-attach with either new rivets or a screw.

[djh3]

Looks as though it maybe was rivited or something to the bag. Drill out the one rivit holding the bucket. Make like a washer a little larger than the small silver part by cutting a piec of thin alum or tin, whatever is handy maybe a beverage can. Then drill out center so it will fit over the bucket from back side and rivit back onto bag. The "new" bracket will not allow the bucket to rotate.

[KeithR]

Check out RapidFix on youtube. looks good. ?

 

 

Keith

[Flyinfool]

Do not use super glue on plastic. The cyanoacrylate is the same ingredient that is in loctite that destroys some plastics. If you are going to try to glue it make sure to use a glue that is made for that type of plastic.

[van avery]

Rapid Fix is good stuff. Tack it together with a little of the "glue tube " then cut a grove in the back side of the break then add the power and a drop or two of the glue. You will most likely sand it down to flatten out the back side. It gets hard immediately.

Good Luck

[a1bummer]

Or you could try the craft store and saddle shop or even eBay. You can probably find a nice metal one in a variety of shapes and sizes. Almost anything to suit hour taste.

[Cheesehead in flatland]

Or you could try the craft store and saddle shop or even eBay. You can probably find a nice metal one in a variety of shapes and sizes. Almost anything to suit hour taste.

 

What would you call this thing? Clasp? I'm not sure what I would enter as a search term.

[karlfitt]

Find an auto paint store near you.

 

Take the part in

 

They make several glues, mostly epoxies, for fixing different plastic parts on cars.

 

I have had great luck with this.

[djh3]

Looks as though it is a cam lock or duz fastener. But without seeing the other receptical side its hard to tell.

[Cheesehead in flatland]

Looks as though it is a cam lock or duz fastener. But without seeing the other receptical side its hard to tell.

 

The other side is pretty much a hole. The part in the picture goes through the hole and then you give it a turn to "lock" it.