Picked up one of these off Ebay this year. I have a couple plastic items that need repairs, namely the left bed side panel on the Prowler and the front fender on the ATV. Figured I'd give this a go and if it works, it will have paid for itself.

Used it tonight on the Prowler's bed side panel and it works great. It melts a staple into the plastic and then you clip off the tabs. I had about a 2" crack that I could get at the back side and I put about 5 staples in there. Heats 'em up real quick and then it just melts right into the plastic. I put some Gorilla glue in the crack as well, mostly so that the crack itself won't really be visible. I got the outside lined up pretty well so I don't think you'll even be able to tell where the crack was. Came with 6 different kinds of staples for inside and outside corners, and of course flat surface repairs.

Looks like a cool tool. Never seen or used one. Cost?

Got any before and after pics? I gotta do a few places on the rzr. Is it a strong repair?

There are bunch out there, but I went with this one.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/132052707608?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT

There's others that don't have the tool box and as many staples that you can get closer to $100. I went with this one since it most resembled the one sold by Eastwood. It's probably the same thing, just branded differently. Pretty good vid on their site as well.

http://www.eastwood.com/ew-hot-stapler- ... ystem.html



I forgot to take pics. It seems pretty strong. The staple isn't super thick, it's .8mm, but I put 5 in the repair area and may go back and add some more. I think it would take a pretty hard shot to the same spot to break it again. I'll get some photos of the after.

Wow shipped from Rockport Tx, been there many times.

So here's some after photos.

Hard to see the crack at all. I got pretty lucky that the crack lined back up pretty well. The textured finish probably helps hide it, too.



This shows where the crack was. It had spread apart about 1/4" at the end. Had to use a strap to hold it back tight when I glued it and stapled it.



Here's a couple of the backside. All this gets hidden by another panel. Ended up with 6 total staples in there.

Wow that looks really good, nice job.

Thanks. I think I got lucky. It should hold, unless it takes another hard hit there. It's towards the tail end of the bed and I'm sure I turned a corner too tight and went hard up on a tree to cause the damage in the first place. The bed on this thing is crazy big.

Looks really good Ron!
With all the plastic panels these sxs have its a good idea to have a kit.

Very cool, permatex has a really good plastic weld epoxy. I actually used it to repair a gas tank on my lawn mower,and then used it repair a plastic grip on a p95 Ruger. That's a pistol for you none gun guys!
Your crack was barely noticeable in the first after shot good job!

well I didn't want to see his crack anyways!

X2!

nice job on the repair Ron