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    Posted: 24 February 2020 at 10:55pm
Is it possible to repair a small crack in an ABS bike box with glass fibre and epoxy or some other resin?
The crack is on a corner.
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ABS is eminently solvent-weldable, using the same stuff as used for joining PVC waste pipes.

How easily you can use that to repair a crack, I'm not sure.  Might need to add some material as reinforcement or something?
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Amazon sell ABS sheets and solvent weld cement. 2 years ago our shower waste developed a major leak and I had to break it into small pieces to get it out but the glue I bought on Amazon welded it back together again and it is still working OK.

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