Hi
I have been told it can be done. i want to know if anyone knows how or if anyone can...
How do you Repair a Clear perspex speedo lens which has a visible crack across a corner ..
I've heard that there is something you can use which melts the plastic allowing the to halves to be joined, This is then polished... sounds simple.. But i want to know if its true? who can help?? anyone offers this service?
Crying

such a service if avalable is likley to be in the region off 30 to £70 as a guess
in other words cheeper to get a new one made
how much is the value off your origional item!!

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Second that. You'd be better off getting a new one from an online second hand parts dealer. Failing that get a new one cut to size from a sheet of perspex.

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Mike

A new one is around £400 secound hand one is £200ish if you can find one.. do you have details of anyone that does this repair? Prefibaly a mobile service or anyone around Middx/London..
Thanx

ultimate handyman is the expert so please be patient till he comes along

i personaly dont think a repair is possible to a physical break or if it is its a extremly expensive alterhative to replacement
you can off course rub out scratches with the correct paste but thats a different matter

quick google brought up this
http://www.scratchrepairnetwork.co.uk/p ... pairs.html

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You'd probbably need to remove it from the dash for the repair, not sure how well theses repairs come out.

Must be some rare thing if a speedo cover is £400

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Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

that's what i was thinking; must be a very rare motor!

come on crazy now you just gotta tell us what car it is.... or bike.... or plane.... do planes have speedo's or are they called something else

You can successfully join two pieces of acrylic together so that the joint is not seen using tensol cement. I doubt this would work for your speedo lens though.

You would need to remove the lens and then you would have to get the tensol cement on both sides of the crack, which might mean breaking it altogether and then you could apply the tensol cement. If you do not do this it would be like a cracked car windscreen where it will not let the water through and so the joint cannot be made.

If the tensol cement did glue it back together it would then need a lot of polishing to get it looking good.

There is also the chance that the lens is not acrylic and so Tensol cement would not then work.

There is probably another alternative to tensol cement, but i do not know of it.

I'd check out some care enthusiast forums if I was you or some car renovation magazines etc.

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Thanx Handyman,
feel a lil better knowing there is hope... All i can say it was stupid accident and the car in question is a Merc... Can't believe the price of the thing! any other car i would of had sorted by now.. With Money to spare!