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From: Bill Gibson <bill.bgibson@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 30, 2007 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: Water reservoir repair..
To: Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net>

Be sure to post the result of this experiment!
I did see Harbor Freight was advertising a plastic welder, no idea how
that might work; heat? Maybe look into how ski/snowboard bases are
repaired with polyethylene candles...

On 10/30/07, Don Hanson <dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:
>   A few days ago I asked about repairing a leaking polyethylene water tank,
> then did some research on my own.  Well, I tried (because it was available
> locally at my sailboard shop) some  stuff called "Water-weld" that I found
> while looking for the supposed real stuff, and the WaterWeld failed
> miserably!  After painfully disassembling my camper and pouring water all
> over as I wrestled that  water tank out through the door, I  followed the
> directions then  reconnected the tank and put some water in...Worked ok
> until it was almost full, then the patch let go, dumping about 20 gallons of
> water inside...Ugg.
>   So I went back to find some "Mr. Sticky's Poly-Bonder" which is said to be
> the one product that will structurally bond Polyethylene.  I ordered some
> from the below, and while there on the website found lots of cool stuff that
> might help out some of you "project types"  I ordered at about 9am and got a
> tracking number for the shipment by noon..so they seem to be on top of it
> here.
>
> http://www.tapplastics.com/
>
>
>   Don Hanson
>

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Bill Gibson
Tempe, Arizona, USA

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Bill Gibson
Tempe, Arizona, USA