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toys19:
Nylon is great for plastic welding, done shed loads of it before. Use a soldering iron the underside and just sort of wipe it around gently. It might pay to trim along the edges of the saddle to provide a bit of filler material and then use that to push into the crack from underneath. If you do muck it up too badly you can always sand and polish out the mess you have made. If you use silcone filler or anything like that it will not take the dye as well as the nylon. Nylon is hygroscopic, it absorbs water which is one of the reasons its so good at being dyed, silicone sealer does not absorb water.
There is a book here all about plastic repair with a section on plastic welding. Practice on some scrap before you muck up your lovely seat...
http://www.urethanesupply.com/pdf/thebook.pdf

bobafett:
Great tips toys19  :daumenhoch:
Definitely think i'll do some practice before i attack my seat with a soldering iron  ;D but it sounds like that may be the way to go - nice one  ;)

bobafett:
MartyC - thanks for all your help - i've found the threads you told me about and i am now a man on a mission  :daumenhoch:

kdw712:
sorry to dig an old one up

but john did you get around to doing this at all
and how did it turn out

pics ?

bobafett:

Seems to be a few old thread being dug up today Kev  :LolLolLolLol:

Never got around to sorting the seat  :-[

It's still here to be done.

Guess I wasn't on as much of a mission as I thought  :-[ ;D

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