The Eastwood kit's Speed Tip uses a heated tip that allows you to push the welding rod through it so it comes out soft and hot on the other end. Other methods include hot-gas welding, which uses hot ...

Often times, broken parts or stress cracks on plastic components can render them useless, forcing you to replace them, costing valuable time and money. Such was the case with a set of damaged Subaru ...

Non-contact laser welding offers several advantages when it comes to joining one plastic part to another. It works on the principle of partial transmission which lets a laser’s light travel through ...

The last two decades have seen substantial improvements in ultrasonic plastic-welding machines. Bench-top models feature proportional-valve controls, linear encoders, line-voltage regulation, internal ...

Plastic welding isn’t a new idea. But a recent video from [The Maker] shows an interesting twist. Given a broken piece of plastic, he secures it together with tape, machines out a channel around the ...