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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: YGT on April 19, 2006, 08:23 PM

Title: skyway repairs
Post by: YGT on April 19, 2006, 08:23 PM

anyone know of ways to repair chips in skyways?

Title: Re: skyway repairs
Post by: Rombloke on April 19, 2006, 09:04 PM

ive tried with no sucsess.....

Dave

Title: Re: skyway repairs
Post by: gjs on April 19, 2006, 09:36 PM

A plastic welder might work,its a very hot air gun and a plastic welding rod ;)

Title: Re: skyway repairs
Post by: Superkav on April 20, 2006, 02:32 PM

Isn't there a plastic bond like they use to fix little dings in car bumpers from when your wife goes to the supermarket and tries to park?

Title: Re: skyway repairs
Post by: Moza on April 22, 2006, 01:24 PM

Quote from: Superkav on April 20, 2006, 02:32 PM

Isn't there a plastic bond like they use to fix little dings in car bumpers from when your wife goes to the supermarket and tries to park?

yep they is a company called innotec make it, thing is you usually paint over it, maybe you could fine sand it and polish it ????

Title: Re: skyway repairs
Post by: steve on April 22, 2006, 11:55 PM

could you not colour polyester resin -ie the fibre glass resin with the colouring agent they use, when making a certain colour fibreglass???

-there is a uk based fibre glass supplier on the net that sells all the different gel coat pigments

-the term for fibre glass is grp

Title: Re: skyway repairs
Post by: steve on April 23, 2006, 12:00 AM

http://www.cfsnet.co.uk/acatalog/CFS_Catalogue__Pigment_Pastes_500gm_Tins_70.html

-there you go, add the correct colour pigment to your epoxy, and apply, using a shuttering type mould, then sand to shape
-easy

-=although i had a red skyway once that i hit a kerb with and broke out a bit of the rim, It didn't stick very well with araldite, prehaps i should have let it dry :D -the tyre popped it out when i pumped it up!