Reinforcing old/cracked armor

[netslave[501st]]

How would you choose to reinforce old, thin, or cracked armor? My initial thought is fiberglass, but ugh... I've never worked with it. If I use that, and the armor is cracked, what about the front of the armor? Would you use bondo or something else to fill in the crack? 

[Sonnenschein]

A piece of an old t-shirt plus ca glue works wonders.

 

For the front, I'd suggest the old abs-paste.  dissovr some ABS in acetone to make a paste. Spread it on the crack, let dry, sand smooth.

 

ABS and bondo don't really like each other.

[netslave[501st]]

Thanks for the tip. Would gorilla glue work just as well? I have a tube here.

 

 

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[Sonnenschein]

Sure, it'll do the same trick

[justjoseph63[Staff]]

Be sure to check which kind of Gorilla glue you have, Brian.  Some of them are only for porous surfaces, like wood.

[netslave[501st]]

Cool, thanks.

 

 

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[Dr Feeley Good]

I've used the superglue and t-shirt method s few times on my sandtrooper and it works a treat...

Edited May 16, 2015 by Dr Feeley Good

[Elumusic[TK]]

3M makes a glue for ABS/Polystyrene.  I've used it with another piece of poly and glued it behind the crack and then fill the crack with polystyrene paste.