Decided to tackle the ML’s rear bumper gaping hole today.
Went to HF and bought a $16 plastic welding kit. A BIG honking soldering iron
with a big flat tip on it.
Four screws and the bumper pulls right off. Took me all of 2 minutes to remove
it.
Took it into the garage and got it set up on sta
Attaboy
Dwight Giles Jr.
Wickford RI
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 8:25 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes
wrote:
> Decided to tackle the ML’s rear bumper gaping hole today.
>
> Went to HF and bought a $16 plastic welding kit. A BIG honking soldering
> iron with a big flat tip on it.
>
> Four screws and the bu
No pictures from the back where you could see the stainless mesh, but you’ll
get the idea.
http://penoff.com/photo_dump.html
-D
> On Jun 15, 2019, at 8:24 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Decided to tackle the ML’s rear bumper gaping hole today.
>
> Went to HF and bought a $16 plas
Very cool. Maybe I should try that on the $500E300 to get the front valance
repaired, somewhat.
--FT
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> On Jun 15, 2019, at 8:50 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> No pictures from the back where you could see the stainless mesh, but you’ll
> get the idea.
>
> http://
Crude but effective. Had I desired to be a bit more careful about it I’m sure I
could have made it look better and be more of a candidate for sanding and
painting.
However, this was great practice for repairing the bumper on my S210. I bumped
into someone a year or so ago when I crossed the cen
I like the black plastic,as is. conveys a certain attitude.
Dwight Giles Jr.
Wickford RI
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 8:51 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes
wrote:
> No pictures from the back where you could see the stainless mesh, but
> you’ll get the idea.
>
> http://penoff.com/photo_dump.html
>
> -D
>
>
I would like to see some pics of the progress on it as well
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> On Jun 15, 2019, at 7:24 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Decided to tackle the ML’s rear bumper gaping hole today.
>
> Went to HF and bought a $16 plastic welding kit. A BIG honking soldering iron
> w
I can see where this would work for a big crack in a valance or something like
that, but trying to reconstruct a hole like I have isn’t really realistic. That
and I can also see where the heat gun approach for repairing plastic is far
superior to the oversize soldering iron approach. The oversiz
So did you have the pieces that broke out of the bumper? or use some
other plastic for filler?
On 6/15/2019 7:50 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
No pictures from the back where you could see the stainless mesh, but you’ll
get the idea.
http://penoff.com/photo_dump.html
-D
On Jun 15, 2
I had the pieces.
I also had plastic filler sticks that came with the plastic welder. That’s the
black stuff you see on the bumper. They also include a piece of stainless
screen, but you can buy 9” x 12” pieces of it from the Island of Large Wimmen
for like $6 for three pieces, too.
What you d
Thats the iron I have, for the money I think its a really good tool. Heck for
twice the money its still a pretty good tool...
-Curt
On Saturday, June 15, 2019, 8:25:27 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
wrote:
Decided to tackle the ML’s rear bumper gaping hole today.
Went to HF and boug
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:00:10 -0400 Dan Penoff via Mercedes
wrote:
> So when I saw that HF had a plastic welder, essentially an 80W
> soldering iron with a big flat sort of tip on it, for $16, I went that
> route.
I thought you said it was, "a BIG honking soldering iron ..."
I have had for years
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:26:36 -0400 Dan Penoff via Mercedes
wrote:
> That and I can also see where the heat gun approach for repairing
> plastic is far superior to the oversize soldering iron approach. The
> oversize soldering iron method works, but it’s slow. If you have a
> large crack or area t
Dan,
Good result for first try !
Now that you have the bits all melted back together, give it a good sanding
with 220 wet or dry and a sanding block, then use some J-B Weld material
called "Plastic Bonder" with a plastic spreader [bondo type] to put a
smooth coating over the weld area.
The J-B Wel
Thanks for the pointers, Grant!
I’m not going to invest any more time or effort into this for now. The hole is
closed up and the bumper is stabilized, which is really all I care about at
this point. If I go any further I’ll drop the $275 or so on Amazon for a new
aftermarket bumper and rattle c
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