Broken plastic leg, anything i can do to salvage

Cyrus

This is a step my daughter has for her car seat (super handy stops them kicking the seat in front)

unfortunately she stood on it and its snapped, is there any hope of gluing or securing it or just throw it out,

they are 50 quid or so to replace so ideally id like to fix if at all possible.

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RiderOnTheStorm

Have seen videos where you use super-glue and baking soda to repair plastic like this. The soda absorbs the glue and builds up the 'depth' of the join, making it rock solid. Could be worth a Google.

Cyrus

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Cyrus

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Have seen videos where you use super-glue and baking soda to repair plastic like this. The soda absorbs the glue and builds up the 'depth' of the join, making it rock solid. Could be worth a Google.

thanks will take a look

BarryD2

Make a wooden one, at least you can repair that.

dathi

you could try epoxy glue they set in 5 mins so you could hold the joint closed with your hands as it sets

CelticRambler

Cyrus wrote: »

is there any hope of gluing or securing it or just throw it out

The position and function of that big (?)peg will make any fix complicated and unreliable. While there are many techniques (glue and/or plastic welding) that could get the broken bit to stick back in place, it's likely that it'd break again as soon as your daughter pressed hard on the footplate.

What might work would be to make a couple of metal splints and rivet them across the fracture site. If you have an old biscuit/sweet tin lying around, cut two broad pieces out of it, each one a little bit narrower than the width of the plastic, and shaped to fit around the peg, one for over the top, one for underneath. File the edges to remove any sharp burrs, drill the metal, drill the plastic, glue/weld the plastic, rivet the metal-plastic-metal sandwich together.

jack of all

I would tackle a repair like that with a metal dowel (or two) coupled with a slow-set epoxy. Most difficult part would be lining up the holes for the dowel in the mating parts. Dowel could be a small round wire nail with head cut off or even a piece of good stout wire hanger (the ones from the dry cleaners seem to be good stiff steel). Once the dowel is in place (bit of epoxy in the holes, the mating faces given a good coat of epoxy I would use a ratchet strap to clamp the whole thing up and leave to cure. Worth a shot anyway, Everbuild epoxy is about €8 a packet and could be used for lots of jobs.

Drumorig

As above but I'd just get a bit of metal to go behind it and lash the epoxy on, front and back.

dealz don't sell epoxy anymore last time I checked but euro giant I think it's called have 2 packs for 1.50. Check any discount shop in the DIY section and you usually see it, dead handy.

you could try epoxy glue they set in 5 mins so you could hold the joint closed with your hands as it sets

maybe don't try that...

colm_mcm

Drill and cable ties

Cyrus

colm_mcm wrote: »

Drill and cable ties

That could be the easiest and most effective answer

Thanks

stoneill

colm_mcm wrote: »

Drill and cable ties

and epoxy