Tail light housing materials and adhesives
Tail light housing materials and adhesives
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I am trying to find the plastic. polycarbonate/acrylic?material that the tail light housings of modern vehicles are made from and the suitable adhesive for these. I think that they are some kind of acrylic.





RE: Tail light housing materials and adhesives
PLEASE NOTE. Methylene chloride is considered castionogenic, and may be banned in some areas, and should always be handled with caution.
The tail light lenses are most likely PMMA, but quite possibly PC. The housings if a seperate moulding, are quite possibly PC/ABS, or even ABS
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RE: Tail light housing materials and adhesives
The application of glues & paints to plastics can reveal cracking of parts with high levels of moulded-in-strain. I'd look to follow polymer supplier guidleines.
Solvent bonding, as with Pat Primer's sugestion, is viable but I know to my cost some of these solvents do pack a punch.
If you investigate this further, look to modify the viscosity of the home made glue by adding polymer to the brew. In addition to Methylene Chloride consider the solvent MEK.