We walk you through how to repair plastic parts, step by step, this month. Read about it at hotrod.com or in the January 2013 issue of Hot Rod Magazine.

Engineer Fran Blanche's weblog describes how she recreated the 1970s Mattel Spinwelder toy from her youth using an inexpensive rotary tool holding plastic welding rods.

LORAIN — V & A Process Inc. has been making the right connections for 45 years. The Lorain-based manufacturer has grown to become a leading supplier of plastic welding rods that join parts together.

This Kickstarter hopes to put all those exotic plastic welding rods to good use. Instead of being designed to only use 1.75 and 3mm filaments, this guy will extrude welding rods up to 4.76mm in ...

That said, while you are at Harbor Freight why not buy the plastic welder kit for $14 and use the long welding rods they sell too? You wont be stopping every 1.5″ and have better melted welds ...

The filler they used is 3M Automix 5895, a two-part flexible epoxy adhesive designed to repair TPO plastics. TPO stands for Thermo Plastic Olefin and is what many bumpers are made of.