[Roadsters] CARB FLOAT REPAIR QUESTION

[Fred Katz]

I have had great success using a product called Mxbon 105, along with baking
soda to repair many plastic products. It's basically super glue, or
cryocyanate.

You spread a bit of baking soda powder in the crack, and then apply a drop of
super glue. It chemically alters the baking soda into becoming a plastic
polymer that bonds with your damaged plastic item.

After a few seconds, you can sand the new plastic bond smooth. The finished
product is a polymer bond far stronger than epoxy or glue. I've had even
better results with carbonate of soda. You bake bicarbonate of soda (baking
powder) for 30 minutes on a cookie sheet, and it chemically transforms to
carbonate of soda (drives out the oxygen). Mxbon 105 is a fast acting super
glue. Mxbon 424 is a slower acting super glue to give more time to position
the pieces.

Fred - So.SF, CA

On Jan 16, 2013, at 2:03 PM, "E. Pirl" <edpirl at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good epoxy or super glue (or Liquid Nails, etc..)
> that
> can handle gasoline and heat?  One of my carb floats on my 68
> SRL311 has a
> crack in it (newer, plastic type float) and I don't have
> the patience to wait
> for a new one to arrive a week or so from now via
> web order. Its just a very
> small crack and I'm thinking if I use the
> right type of glue (if there is
> such a thing), that I should be able to
> just patch this crack. Its such a
> small area that I don't think the
> weight of the glue would harm the
> flotation. Also, if that doesn't work,
> does anyone know up to what year of
> 240Z float is the same as the 68
> 2000?  Maybe I'd have better luck getting
> one of those locally. I just
> don't have the patience for parts to arrive in
> the mail.  If u can
> respond direct to my email, that would be better, I have
> a hard time
> logging into this website most of the time.  Email to;
> edpirl at yahoo.com  Thanks!
>
> Ed
> Cocoa, Florida