Plastic welding, and all the little parts.

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wow. who would have thought melting plastic could be so fun. For those of you with a soldering iron i highly suggest you wreck and then proceed to melt all of the cracks on your plastics back together. and kill some bugs with it too. its also a great way to burn your fingers and melt your shoelaces.

i only had a couple small cracks to do, so i started to practice on my front piece, and i realized very shortly how easy it was to fix these things. Just gotta have some spare plastic pieces and a little patience and you can melt that shit good as new.

heres a piece i practiced on



and heres the only two spots i had to actually weld on a good fairing. Just VERY small cracks on a mounting tab. not even noticeable when installed.


Now the biggest thing i've got to worry about is finding a way to fix this headlight unit. as you can see in this pic...


the only problem with the unit is two mounting points have broken off and become scenery in a ditch somewhere down in north carolina. I dont want to have to buy a whole new unit just because of two little tabs, so i figured i can just buy that back piece that has all of the mounting points. only thing is i cant figure out for the life of me how to get it off. any suggestions people? specially those of you whom have installed HEDs and had to take that back plate off... trip?