Repairing Plastic Interior Parts of 40-year-old Aircraft

I used to repair/reinforce ABS plastic cowls on my radio controlled planes with
fiberglass cloth and PVC pipe cement. I would line the cowl on the inside with
the glass, then use the dauber in the can of PVC cement to wet through the
cloth. It would dry quickly and seemed to do the trick. I think it would
probably work on plastic interior panels and interior plastic parts.

"FIyer111" wrote in message
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I used to repair/reinforce ABS plastic cowls on my radio controlled planes
with
fiberglass cloth and PVC pipe cement. I would line the cowl on the inside
with
the glass, then use the dauber in the can of PVC cement to wet through the
cloth. It would dry quickly and seemed to do the trick. I think it would
probably work on plastic interior panels and interior plastic parts.

Thanks to Nathan, Steve, John and Flyer for a wealth of helpful information.

Don't know if it is any help or not, but back in the 70's I helped
repair some of this stuff that was cracked. Reinforced it with glass
cloth on the back bonded with acetone (maybe MEK). We took a broken
piece of the same stuff, shaved it and dissolved it in the same
solvent to make a paste to fill the cracks. After it dried , we
sanded it smooth and painted the panel.

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