Ok so i asked about plastic welding on here got some good advise on how to go about it, what to look for and how to see if it had taken etc. Then browsed the forum to see how everyone else had done and looked on youtube and went for it because i had nothing to lose, the fairing was scrap anyway. It had been repaired everywhere very badly and the only other genuine one i had was just a cut off top piece.
I used a soldering iron which i made my own tip for because the standard one was too thin using micro bore copper heating pipe. I tried making one out of tin first but it wouldnt conduct the heat well enough.
So lets go for it the fairing was scrap really broken top ears and side mounts and cracked filler everywhere where it had been reinforced with fibre glass over bits of steel.
Looks ok but actually thats not it this is what i cut the bits off to put onto here. I masked it with 3mm tape then cut one each side of the masking so it would be too big then bolted it on with the screen so that and the bike formed the jig and trimmed it till it lined up right. Technique wise i used the soldering iron to form a melted V about the same depth or thickness of the rod so it was stuck and then filled the V in with the 3mm rod and smoothed it over till it all became one.
This is what i cut off to start off with
i remade the sides in the end because i couldnt get them right. I ground it down and reinforced the rear with plastic then filled the hole up on the outside using some more plastic and rods a bit like a spot weld where you drill through one layer and then weld it to the top one if that makes any sense?
I cut up and used the plastic from a knackered one of these for the sides.
