My wife got me a vintage campy aero bottle which I love. Today while washing it it cracked in two places!
I love this bottle and I would like to try to repair it. Any suggestions/success stories?
Thanks a ton,
Dan
www.aiatriathlon.com
I doubt that you could make it usable, but I’ve repaired certain plastic car parts with a soldering iron on low heat. Melt the plastic slightly at the edges and work it back together. Chances are that any further flexing of the plastic would cause it to break at the same place again though.
Clear silicone , Model building super glue (Cyanoacrylate )
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best permanent fix, go to your local hardware store and pick up some fiberglass cloth and some thin epoxy. clean and lightly sand over cracks, put down a thin layer of epoxy, cut the cloth into a 1/2 strip or so, lay it on the epoxy and paint more epoxy over it. Go a couple of layers thick. You can use a medium thickness cyanarolyte (spelling??) as well. Ask your local hardware store to figure out what weight (thickness) cloth to get.
They are still occasionally for sale on ebay.
Many of the repair suggestions above might likely work, however, i personally would be more than a little hesitant to put epoxy, super glue, and/or fresh fiberglass resin next to a solution I am drinking. Some of these glue compounds have very toxic (to ingest) chemicals.
Just buy another. I heard specialized will come out with a somewhat aero bottle in the fall…
that type of plastic is not repairable.
I’ve had success with plastic welding machines to repair a favourite water bottle.
As a substitute I’ve been pretty happy with a hot glue gun and a finger slathered in spit to make the repair a little flatter and less noticeable.
Either way, practice on another bottle first until you get it right.
Thanks for all the advice. I will probably try it soon. I guess I could possibly turn it into a tool kit if I decide I am worried about the toxicity of the repair job. The only problem is the handle in the middle!
I guess I could possibly turn it into a tool kit if I decide I am worried about the toxicity of the repair job
you should worry about this.
medical grade epoxy, would do the job and be safe…