for those of you who have used bondo, how sturdy is it when dry? i'm considering filling a 1" [~2.54cm] diameter hole with it, so the bondo will be about 1/8th" [~3.175mm, i think] thick with a little overlap on one side so it doesn't just fall through. is bondo strong enough for that?
yup bondo is very strong i have seen people stand on their bondoed items once dry! so bondo away buddy
and how well supported would it be if i only filled the right side of the hole? in case you haven't gotten it, i'm not really filling a hole with it
There was someone who did a Doom3 mod and fabricated one very intricate peice out of bondo and people doubted it could hold any weight, so he stood on it. No cracks there, buddy
theres a differance between something being strong enough to stand on and soemthign being strong enough to resist shock loading. The bondo will fill the hole but you sand a much higher chance of it getting cracked then if you added soemthign to give it some structural strength (metal, mesh, fibre glass etc..)
You an epoxy for like models and miniatures I use to be big into warhammer. The blue plus yellow makes green epoxy if you get that or the premade gray stuff and fill it. Epoxys dry hard as steel. It would be just as durable as any plastic on the case.
if its a metal piece, take a piece of mesh or scrap metal big enough to cover the hole from the backside and jb weld it on there and fill in the front with bondo. If its plastic use a scrap plastic piece and do the same thing with epoxy then bondo it in. Vazz
When I filled the holes on my case I put a piece on metal on one side of the hole tape on. Then I filled the hole with hot glue about 2MM from the top. Then put on my filled generous amount. Then I waited a little over aday then sanded it. Its strong and came out great.
