Umm, black plastic? http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1285/1362411164_8e7df1d1ab_o.jpg http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1051/1362409864_59cbf016e4_o.jpg I still have to clean the gorilla glue from this but you can get a good idea of the problem from the pix. 1000 words and all that. The pix show the broken piece in place where it needs to be. There is a Devcon supplier not too far from me. Eric --- "Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Nelson wrote: > > Thanks Mark. > > > > The break is right at the spring leaving a very > small > > piece to work with. > > > > I'll look into the JB Weld. Testing this in the > light > > will be one thing but once in use, if it's going > to > > break, it will break when being opened which means > > under safe light so there's no paper risk. > > JB Weld is just a metal-powder-filled epoxy glue; > I don't believe it will offer any advantage over > conventional epoxy in this application. > > What kind of plastic is it? In my experience, > conventional epoxy rarely bonds well to most > plastics; > you'll probably have better luck with something like > one of the Devcon cements: > > http://www.devcon.com/devconfamilyproduct.cfm?familyid=182 > > > Good luck! > Dana > ============================================================================================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to > www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the > same e-mail address and password you set-up when you > subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.