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Plastic Automotive Welder??????????????

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I was thumbing thru my Northern Tool Catalog, and came across this.

Model 5 Plastic Welder made by Urethane Supply Company, ideal body shop repair tool makes efficient, high quality repairs to most types of automotive plastic, bumpers, windshield reservoirs, consoles ect.
80 watt element(110v)

price $172.99
Has anyone hear of this and could this be used to weld seams together on vehicles, parts ect?

what do you think?
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I can't be 100% positive about this but I have seen what they call plastic welders at my friends body shop. The one they had to test was basically a hot glue gun for the urethane bumpers on cars. I never used it so I can't say how well it worked but the body shop didn't buy one so it obviously wasn't all that great.
 
I looked up their site and it looks like just a soldering rod with a paddle end, they use Polyethylene rods or flat strips of various widths and colors.
Seems like you could do the same thing with Styrene rods and a soldering rod.
I attempted to use my soldering gun when i made my ket wire holder frame. It held ok but i didnt like the undercuts that it made.
I may try tinkering with using styrene rods and my soldering gun.
Here is the link to their site.


http://www.urethanesupply.com/kcwelder.html
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I actually own one of the soldering iron type welders. It is a bit cumbersome due to the size. However it does have a temp control and too much heat is not a problem.

One could get away with using a reqular soldering iron, but the temp needs to bereduced by at least half.
 
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