[Ti] Cracked Plastic Side Molding On Ti'books: Material and Repair

[Jerry Krinock]

on 04/05/25 19:29, Dan K at macdan at comcast.net wrote:

> is this cement you used sort of the thicker gooey stuff?

I would say it is "pretty thin".  If a pile of it were left on a tabletop,
it would spread out to a height of maybe 2 mm.

> The plastic is _plated_ and then painted,
> ... The (poorly done?) plating is what causes the
> bubbling problems when it begins to corrode under the paint.

So I would say that it is probably not ABS, and probably not carbon-fiber
reinforced, and maybe polycarbonate, but the important discovery you made,
for the record, is that Ambroid Proweld will fix it.

>> http://www.ambroid.com/Ambroid.html