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Plastic welding/What were Andys bumpers made of

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Hello all,
I picked up a used Andy's rc10 bumper on e-bay and some the tines are cut.
I was think of trying some plastic welding or wrapping in carbon fiber.

Does anyone know what those bumper were made of ? I hear for plastic welding you need some donor material .

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Pretty sure that they are nylon. That's what they look like.

I just put an Andy's body mount in dye to bring its color back. It took the color quickly, just like nylon.

Now, I think JG stuff is Kydex.
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What’s a numper…… :lol:
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MarkyDents wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 2:12 pm What’s a numper…… :lol:
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numper is what happens when I type out a message without my readers ...

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Re: Plastic welding/What were Andys bumpers made of

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juicedcoupe wrote: Sun Oct 03, 2021 1:14 pm Pretty sure that they are nylon. That's what they look like.

I just put an Andy's body mount in dye to bring its color back. It took the color quickly, just like nylon.

Now, I think JG stuff is Kydex.
That was my guess. Thinking about it more I may trim some of the material off the edges of the bumper to use as the filler.

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