rtcosic
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Some-one on here will be an expert.
My wife has an knitting machine whose manufacturer has gone out of business. The mechanism has hard plastic components held onto a steel chassis with self tapping screws which need to be moved slightly from time to time to adjust the mechanism.
The holes these screws sit has become worn and there is slop, making accurate adjustment problematic.
I thought of cleaning out the screw holes, inserting some epoxy, lightly coating the screws with - eg - WD40 and screwing then back in and leaving the epoxy to set.
Back in the day my boys had all kinds of fast, slow, with/without filler glues for all the various materials their RC model aircraft and cars needed, but these days I have none.
I have a Screwfix nearby so general purpose Araldite is readily available:
http://www.screwfix.com/p/araldite-...ml/2457h#product_additional_details_container
Is this likely to be any good for this purpose?
Any other suggested 'repair' methods?
My wife has an knitting machine whose manufacturer has gone out of business. The mechanism has hard plastic components held onto a steel chassis with self tapping screws which need to be moved slightly from time to time to adjust the mechanism.
The holes these screws sit has become worn and there is slop, making accurate adjustment problematic.
I thought of cleaning out the screw holes, inserting some epoxy, lightly coating the screws with - eg - WD40 and screwing then back in and leaving the epoxy to set.
Back in the day my boys had all kinds of fast, slow, with/without filler glues for all the various materials their RC model aircraft and cars needed, but these days I have none.
I have a Screwfix nearby so general purpose Araldite is readily available:
http://www.screwfix.com/p/araldite-...ml/2457h#product_additional_details_container
Is this likely to be any good for this purpose?
Any other suggested 'repair' methods?