Prince George Vintage Motorcycle Club
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: fast1 on September 11, 2015, 10:22:59 PM
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For those of you who haven't heard me rave about rapid-fix here it is. Seen it on the parts counter at Lordco for a while with a little video screen claiming some outlandish s&*t. Being the type who is rather dubious about "magic in a can" and being the price is over 20 dollars I left it there. When I discovered the fuel t on my carbs was leaking I was crushed. Hours of work and trying to source o-rings made of unobtanium made me bite the bullet and give this product a try. Simply squirted one side, waited a couple minutes for it to dry then repeated on the other side. waited ten minutes, installed the fuel line and put the gas to her. STILL sealing just fine. Then one of the half moon metal/rubber seals between the head and valve cover started weeping oil, quick wipe with a rag and a squirt of rapid-fix and voila! No more leak. Power steering hose on my Odyssey sprung a leak, once again rapid fix to the rescue. One little set of bottles saved me counless hours and mucho dinero. On my second one now and discovered today it will even repair cheap Chinese plastic toys. Dennis used it to repair the awning on his camper. Highly reccomended by me. CHEERS.
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P.S. this product is intended for metal, plastic and rubber only.
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Interesting, will have a look at it next time I am in there...
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Curiously, I was thinking of making a post on this same topic; Rapid Fix. Its truly is amazing stuff.
On our return from Q-Ball's we camped and set up the awning on my camper van. A huge rain storm in the middle of the night collapsed it. A fairly complex plastic swivel piece broke in numerous places and small bits of plastic were lost. I put the remaining pieces together as best I could, and filled the missing parts with the Rapid Fix powder and glue. It hardens immediately and I was able to file off the excess. I've been using it since with no problems.
In the same collapse, an aluminum rectangular rod was bent. On straightening, the aluminum was cracked and almost broken through. I tried aluminum brazing rod and it wouldn't stick. I used Rapid Fix. Filled the cracks, blobbed it up like welding and filed it down. Works perfect.
Since then I have used this stuff on all sorts of repairs. We temporarily fixed a leaking copper plumbing pipe (temporarily only because Lauri is and ex-plumber and insisted on doing it right). I used it to fix a 5 inch crack on my plastic bumper on my jeep. I used it to glue rubber to steel on my bass post. Lauri glued a stainless steel knob on a stainless steel kitchen canister.
The short version: if you need to glue something and you figure nothing else will work, use this stuff. It is truly amazing.
Peace & Grease, Dennis