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Title: Nitrogen Hot Air Welding of Plastics
Post by: saaz on April 08, 2014, 04:34:21 PM

May be of interest to those of us who like to tinker with things

http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=113090 (http://www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=113090)

Title: Re: Nitrogen Hot Air Welding of Plastics
Post by: Down Under on April 09, 2014, 08:26:52 AM

Good read John.  Though for the money I've got some pretty good results repairing ABS plastic with an electric soldering iron.

Cheers,

Tony

Title: Re: Nitrogen Hot Air Welding of Plastics
Post by: Brock on April 09, 2014, 08:48:07 AM

It would do a good job, but nitrogen aint cheap. For home handy man work, a compressor with a filter dryer would be sufficient (80% N2)