This may be an odd question, but I feel as though I need to ask it. I have a Walthers American Burro Crane in my pocession with a crane arm broken in two places: the tip of it, and where it joins the base. The tip, I can fix, but the crane arm itself sticks straight up and out from the body of the crane at a 40* angle or something close to that, and my thinking is that Even if I try to glue the boom back to the joint, the ngle and weight of the boom is going to stress the repair joint enough that it will eventually sag and pull itself apart again,and I'm not sure how to einforce the joint without it looking fairly obvious that I've done something. My goal had been to repaint this puppy, and it isn't strung. I'm not even sure I still have its stringing, thecar has been ins storage for a while and hence the damage to the boom. So is it worth fixing, or should I relegate it to a repair shop scene somewhere and replace the poor thing?
Hi Morgan. I am having a difficult time visualizing the piece and the problem. Maybe you could take a couple of pics and post them here to help stimulate the 'ol man's brain. Maybe you could simply make a shorter crane arm that will not be able to sag?
D'Oh! I should know better than to not post pictures... there'both places where its broken. Becausexof the snap at the top, i'm not entirely sure that running the pulleys would help...but i hate to waste the model... Sent from my LG-LS970 using Tapatalk
Can you reinforce the broken joints with a thin piece of metal rod, held in place with CA? This would not only stiffen the joint itself, but would also give more contact surface for the adhesive.
Sounds like a good possibility. If able to place metal reinforcing inside the boom, once painted a nit picker would need to look very carefully....
Never heard of Dollarama, but I'll look into it. Metal pins, I'll look into, there's very little room where the boom meets its hinge, I get some time this weekend I'll look into punching through and maybe that'll give me enough braceby leveraging on the hings itself. Funny, I shimmed some old Tyco light towers that had been cut through by the revious owner over-wrapping the wire with some styrene plumbing pipe stuff, wonder why I didn't think of that again?
Well, if you're anything like me, some of those old neural pathways haven't been traveled in a very long time and have become overgrown with other worthless information.
Dollaram is a dollar chain store, but not all dollar stores carry the two part 5 minute cure epoxy; you can buy this two part epoxy and Eagle, Home Depot, etc. but it just costs more.
I have had many repairs I have done on plastics, in places with high stress levels. I use Weld-On #16, thickened, for plastics. I get it at a place that's named after the things bars dispense beer from. Glue it, hold it, pressing together, usually less than a minute.... Dave
Penn state industries sells epoxy (ca) glue in various thicknesses and also sell an activator that makes it dry like "NOW" http://www.pennstateind.com/store/PKGLUE1.html?prodpage=1PK search the site for the activator, II use this when I am turning pens and I break the pen it does hold in fact this ca is the best I have ever seen or used.
