Plastic repair

Ian D

Ian D

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South Australia
The wife orders heaps of stuff from Temu, I just shake my head and wander off. But once in a while.......bonus $12 AUD.
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It works, after super glue-ing my inner duck tail back together I used the heat gun with the supplied metat bits, snapped the ends off ready to finish.
Comes with 4 different shaped metal bits.

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Walla--- the bits hanging out in space will be covered by a plastic steel epoxy or similar.
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I'm quite sure they ripped of someone, but for now thats all I got.
Beats doing it with a soldering iron. oh shit must be beer oçlock 🍻
 
Looks like an effective repair 👍
I wonder what the wire is? Nichrome?

As an aside, I know a bloke who works in cybersecurity and knows a thing or two. He suggests that anyone using temu should keep a VERY close eye on their credit card statements, and never use a debit card.
 
I used Ali Express once, bought a Specialised carbon fibre bicycle frame for AU$172, which never arrived. When the seller never responded I sent a complaint to Ali Express who said they’d look into it.

I figured the seller had retired to Shanghai after stealing my $.

I sent him a last message, calling him a thieving cunt, and he could go fuck himself…. worth every cent of my $172.
 
I suppose there can be dodgy sellers on any online marketplace. There's always some level of risk.

I've used Ali express, Amazon and eBay with no major problems (yet). Never used Temu, it just looks a bit dodgy to me.

Never had anything fail to turn up. I once bought a Kawasaki side stand from Canada on eBay that took 3 months to get here but it wasn't the seller's fault, it got snagged up somewhere in Aus Customs. I'd pretty much given up on it and bought another one in the meantime.

I've bought a couple of items over the years that were damaged or not working and have always managed to get a refund. Although the refund process can be a bit bureaucratic and tedious.

A couple of times I bought shit items that didn't live up to the seller's description, but they were only cheap so I knew it was a risk and didn't bother making a fuss about it. One example was a set of ignition coils from China that were so cheap I figured they were worth a try. I mean, how hard is it to fuck up an ignition coil? They're just a bunch of wire turns wrapped around a core. Well, they managed to cock it up. While they did make a miniscule spark on the bench, they had no hope of actually igniting a fuel mixture. I just chucked them in the bin and chalked it up as a failed gamble.
 
chrisk said:
I used Ali Express once, bought a Specialised carbon fibre bicycle frame for AU$172, which never arrived. When the seller never responded I sent a complaint to Ali Express who said they’d look into it.

I figured the seller had retired to Shanghai after stealing my $.

I sent him a last message, calling him a thieving cunt, and he could go fuck himself…. worth every cent of my $172.
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Wondering if Google Translate copes with that.;)

As always, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is... part of lifes' learing curve.

piet
 
Andy said:
Looks like an effective repair 👍
I wonder what the wire is? Nichrome?

As an aside, I know a bloke who works in cybersecurity and knows a thing or two. He suggests that anyone using temu should keep a VERY close eye on their credit card statements, and never use a debit card.
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Don't know what they are made of, but a magnet won't pick them up and they do bend but will snap of if you get it right.
 
Without doubt nichrome wire.

It a fantastic metal, seen a 650mm length get so hot, it was almost white, slumped down about 300mm from original horizontal position, and as it cooled went back to its original state, and still usable. But, once subjected to red hot or more, it does get rather brittle.
 
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