Honcho rear cage material?

[edan]

Hello,

Does anyone know the specific plastic that the Honcho rear cage is made of please?


I am trying to “add” to the existing Honcho cage to copy a local truck. This would be nothing structural, just basically cosmetic.
My problem is that everything that I have tried so far has failed. When I have had problems like this in the past (gluing Teflon to Teflon) I had to look for specific glue for specific material. My problem now is that I do not know the specific material that Axial uses for their products.


I have searched the forum, but most of the post are dated and I can not find a post where anyone is trying to do what I am attempting to accomplish. So far I have tried the following:
Loctite Plastic Epoxy
JB Weld
JB Weld Kwik set
JB Weld Plastic Weld
CA
Shoe Goo
Plastruct Plastic Weld


Thank you.

 

[TraumaChaser]

Hello,

Does anyone know the specific plastic that the Honcho rear cage is made of please?


I am trying to “add” to the existing Honcho cage to copy a local truck. This would be nothing structural, just basically cosmetic.
My problem is that everything that I have tried so far has failed. When I have had problems like this in the past (gluing Teflon to Teflon) I had to look for specific glue for specific material. My problem now is that I do not know the specific material that Axial uses for their products.


I have searched the forum, but most of the post are dated and I can not find a post where anyone is trying to do what I am attempting to accomplish. So far I have tried the following:
Loctite Plastic Epoxy
JB Weld
JB Weld Kwik set
JB Weld Plastic Weld
CA
Shoe Goo
Plastruct Plastic Weld


Thank you.

I'm guessing it's HDPE or a nylon based plastic. Your gonna have a hard time to get anything to be strong enough to hold up if it's not molded. Your best bet is just to make one out of an alloy metal and weld it if you want it to last. But you can try some 2 part apoxies for plastic and that stuff is as strong if not stronger than steel.

 

[Joshs4x4toyz]

I would just drill a hole in the current piece and tap the add-on and bolt it up. thats what ive done in the past to bolt stuff like the wrexo's or the like together, hope that helps.