Skinning Polypropylene


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Carbonphoenix
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Hey guys,

Been doing a search and the only results are years old and not giving any answers.

I'm looking to skin my PP plastics on my car, and from experience of other parts, PP isn't going to be fun.

So was wondering what process you guys may have worked out now to allow us to skin PP successfully.

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Hanaldo
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Flame treatment is not as straight forward as one might think though, really to do it properly you need special equipment. If you go too far with the flame treatment then the surface tension goes back the other way and you make it unbondable again, so you have to know exactly when the plastic is correctly treated and you have to be able to hit that point consistently over the entire part - not so easy by hand with a blow torch or similar.

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