I find splitting them carefully with a razor knife and then just using a soldering iron to "plastic weld" them back together. Since doing an airbox for my zetec which involved lots of plastic welding. I have purchased a real plastic welding tool and various plastic rods. I have gotten pretty good at it.
Bill M Mystic,CT On Dec 18, 2012, at 8:40 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote: > At 08:10 PM 12/18/2012, Mike B wrote: >> Or drill each tab and use tek screws to put it back together, saving >> yourself $32 on those clips. > > There is that in what you say. Are they really $3 each in > sets? Ouch. Mechanically I don't think it's a good solution though, > because those thin tabs aren't meant to have their stress > concentrated on a little hole in the middle (not to mention the > difficulty when your hammer-driven knife fails to follow the weld line). > > Yrs, > d |
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