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I know that some on this board have an extensive knowledge of the various adhesives on the market-maybe someone can help. My problem is, I was tinkering with my old Pacific 150 DL reloader last night in about 0 degree temperature in my unheated garage. I know, what the heck was he thinking! I wasn't reloading, just tinkering.

I was trying to adjust the position of the lever that the wad spreader/guide fits into and it snapped off on the back where the set screw tightens down on the main beam.

I have some Loctite Super Glue 2 All Plastics, that I used to attempt the repair, without success! I cleaned it up and then tried some all purpose epoxy, again without success! The material is some sort of hard plastic circa mid-60's.

Since the machine has been out of production for many years, I imagine parts would be almost non-existent.

Any and all advise on what could be used would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Cameron

Cam,
I don't know of an adhesive that'd work for this. Most of the plastics for products like this are "self-releasing" so they can be removed easily from their molds when manufactured. This characteristic works against any glueing.

No offense, but it may be time to get rid of the old 150. There is quite a few Pacific presses on ebay, if you want a similar one. Maybe it's time for that upgrade?

I have a 16ga/20ga press in the garage that someone gave to me. Believe it's an old Pacific. Blue. It might be serviceable, but I'll never use it. If you post a picture of what you need, I'll look the monster over and send you the part if this one has it. The thing is headed for scrap anyway...

This will sound strange, but some plastics will respond to PVC cement. Of course if it works, because of the type of reaction it causes, you've got to be careful or you'll melt the part.

That said realize that most of the time it won't work..........

Thanks guys!

No offense taken Chuck! It probably is time for an upgrade. I've been using the machine since my early teens, when my father bought it new and am kind of partial to it.

Shotgun, I'll see if I can find an old parts list and post it. The machine is a single stage and is blue.

Thanks again,
Cameron

I have used super glue 'activated' with a pinch of baking soda to glue broken ABS plastic back together on a number of ocassions, but it has normally been small panel type repairs affixing tabs to snap-on panels that had broken off and that sort of thing.

Of note too, there are two dif types of 'PVC' solvents & glues sold for use with plastic pipe, so you may wish to try both. One of them works on ABS type plastics.

Shotgun,
Here are is what the piece looks like. Hopefully the pictures will post. My niece just walked me through the steps on how it's done. Sorry the one picture is so big, I couldn't seem to get it formatted correctly.
Thanks,
Cameron

JB makes a Plastic Weld epoxy specially formulated for all plastics. I use it for pressure repairs on PVC. At the hardware store in the double syringe pack.

When nothing else works on plastics, I use Hot Stuff with an accelerator. You can get Hot Stuff cyanoacrylate and the accelerator at most good model railroad or RC airplane shops. This is the same Hot Stuff that many here use for stock cracks. The guys who do a lot of custom fabrication for auto audio system control panels turned me on to this for plastic, and it seems to work. Make sure the parts are clean and follow the directions on the accelerator can.

http://www.constantines.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=7

For Hot Stuff and accelerator. Not cheap!