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Old 05-19-2023, 01:27 PM
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Nice job Dan !!
That was a serious crack.

Thanks for the report and method for repair.
Sure will be handy to someone if ever their canopy suffers.
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Thanks Eric!

Sincerely hope no one has ever to perform this kind of repair… the more so on a friend’s RV…

Tech speak for you guys in NA (yep, that’s for North America), a more popular glue would be the Weld-On 3, which I understand is much more of a liquid, and therefore to be applied in multiple layers.
Airplane Plastics, manufacturers of our canopies, offers some advice too, see https://www.airplaneplastics.com/faq
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Looks like that turned very good, Dan! Thanks for sharing the details of how you did it. I hope I don't need to use them!
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