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Hello Donnie Smith here and I want to let you know about another cool tool that I saw
at SEMA 2011 this year. This is a tool by Motor Guard called the Magna Stitcher and
it is designed to repair plastic. Now once this is cool because it is really fast and
if you have any tears or rips in the plastic you just flip it around and reinforce it.
It melts the stakes into the plastic and it is a real quick repair. You don’t have to
grind or wait for anything to dry. You just put these in and then you can flip it around
and finish it up like you would normally with adhesives. But it is really cool I went ahead
and got one and shot a little video clip on it and I will be doing more about this tool
and plastic repair in upcoming videos, but I want to go ahead and show you a little bit
about this. It is a new tool and I think you are going to like this.
What I have this is a [inaudible 00:01:00] from Motor Guard. I just took it out of the
package. It says that it can fit on any step over [inaudible 00:01:09] it sets on there
and screws. Then it has directions that come with it and in these directions it is got
different little wires that go depending like if you are doing flat area, extra reinforced
area, inside corner and outside corner and this is supposed to fix any just about any
types of plastics. So we have got a bumper here a plastic part. We are going to put this
to the test. Now let me [inaudible 00:01:44] to you something about plastic repair. As
they make adhesives for this for repair on the front sides or the back side to do so
[inaudible 00:01:51] but you don’t want to do is put body filler on bumper covers.
But this plastic needs additional adhesion and some of the things that plastic repair
has that body fillers don’t. We got this bumper in a big hole in everything right here.
It was full of bondo. Had bondo of course it is cracking off you can see how it is cracking
off here, but don’t do that. That is not a good repair and it is not going to last
so I wouldn’t recommend putting body filler or your regular bondo on bumper covers. [inaudible
00:02:26] say a flexible parts repair for things like this and that is and that is what
that would work for hard plastics also make a ridge repair. Today we are going to test
this out and like I said if we had a tab broke off. Just a small piece or a crack and also
this is designed for pretty flatter area [inaudible 00:02:49] so we are going to take one of these.
Stick here too. Well let it set there for a little bit I am sure because that plastic
is really hot and it is melting. It is where it is going to set up and pull it off. Okay
keep holding it not really firm. It has put couple of more in. You know probably if you
have read a little bit more and tell me I haven’t read everything but I am not sure
what the distance between these what the proper distance should be. One thing I can see you
want to really watch a trigger because that we have said they are too long you can go
all the way through the plastic so you will make sure to set it in there and loft the
trigger and let it cool. It is going to set there coot bit and we will see if it has strength
in that too lay it down and then we will put a couple of more on.
Now [inaudible 00:04:40] cut these ends off you know complete the repair for this side.
You really don’t have to do anything else for this side. You can see this side over
here once you are over here. We put it back together and then what you do is you dish
this out with a grinder and then you put that adhesive sanded up and blockages like body
filler and you never know that it was there. Well that pretty well wraps it for this video.
I haven’t had that too long as I play with it and see what all it will do. I will post
more videos about this tool and plastic repair, but I think it is a cool tool. I want to go
ahead and get this posted here so you can see it, but learn about this tool and may
be something that you are interested in. But I think it is going to speed up the way plastic
repair is done. There is no proper sanding or grinding on the back side and you don’t
have to wait for anything to dry. It is not thick these end there and it is just less
than a second. It is done, it is reinforced the crack. You can flip it around and go ahead
and complete the repair on the front side the way you normally would. Anyway I will
be posting more when I get one, but thanks for watching this video and I will talk to
you soon.