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Offline saaz

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Nitrogen Hot Air Welding of Plastics
« 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
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Re: Nitrogen Hot Air Welding of Plastics
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: Nitrogen Hot Air Welding of Plastics
« Reply #2 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)
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