220w Plastic Welder Upgraded 2 in 1 Plastic Welding Kit Plastic Repair Kit 1000pcs Hot Staples 92pcs Plastic

After looking over the options and checking on the reviews for the repair kits I settled on this one. It is a very well rounded kit with enough wire staples for dozens if not 100's of repairs. 9 different styles of staples are included in individual plastic bags. The instructions say the staples are the "patented" slit design that can be removed by hand but those with the kit are not that style. Also 5 sheets of 6" x 8" very fine mesh stainless screens which should make exceptionally strong repairs. The gun heats the staples quickly and the 2 included "smoothing" attachments seem to heat up and work as expected. There is a fairly decent "snap away blades" utility knife that has many spare blades included inside the handle of the knife but it is a rather confusing thing to get back together if you take it apart. The locking thumbscrew for the utility knife had fallen from the end of the knife and was floating free amongst the other parts. It went right back but do not over-tighten as both the thumbscrew and the metal of the knife are pretty soft and the threads will strip with too much torque. Seven different types of plastic repair rods are sent including 2 types I have not seen before: Polycarbonate (reminds me of clear plexiglass) and a softer clear polyurethane rod. The dykes inside the kit are nice heavy cutters but the back-angle on the cutting jaws will not allow the staples to be cut flush with the surface of the plastic and create a real skin ripping point just waiting for you to get into it. I would recommend buying one of the flush cutting dykes like the little blue Kline Tools pictured. They will remove more of the tails from the staples but even with flush cutting dykes a pass with a small grinding stone in a rotary tool will provide snag free repair. The gun itself has an LED light which may help when working in poor lighting and since these are basically soldering guns the technology used in them has been around for decades. It should last a very long time if you do not push it too hard and allow it to cool down while doing large repairs. In other words keep the duty cycle low to prevent overheating. Other reviews point out if you lean on it too hard the gun will melt. Do not make that mistake. Last thought is the included case will allow you to keep it all in a small compact enclosure. Read more

I bought a damaged intake online and this thing had everything I needed to fix it! I’ve also used it on other automotive repairs and it’s faired very well. Gets plenty hot, easy to use, has all the tools and pieces you need, functions well. Overall a great tool and a great value for the money! Read more

It worked very well I was surprised how good Read more

Works very well. Heats up very quickly- only in a few seconds. Used it to fix a broken toilet seat. The money I saved already paid for this tool. Plus all the extra staples and tools that come with it make it an unbelievable value. Read more

I cannot possibly give this product enough stars! I had so many Halloween and Christmas props broken during high wind days, but this item helped me repair them to almost brand new. Now I’m looking for things to repair because it’s fun to fix with this and it feels good knowing you don’t have to throw expensive items away!! Buy it! Read more

PROS: Heats up very quickly; Pretty easy to fit in the included staples; They included plastic. Welding rods worked well; CONS: This can easily distort and completely discolor and dit, texturize, and a plastic that it will work on successfully I use this device to repair/retrofit an automated pet feeding bowl which had a double opening set of top doors. One of the doors latches to help hold it closed and lock it broke off, so use this device to weld the two doors together so they could open as one unit. Using the metal staples was very easy it was just a matter of inserting them into the holes at the tip of the rods that come out of the gun, and then pulling the trigger to pass the current to cause the staple to heat up and melt its way into the plastic. The thing to remember about doing this is that any texture that the surface of the plastic may have if you’re going to be doing this from the viewable side of the plastic Will definitely be lost. In addition, as you push the metal into the plastic, the plastic pushes itself away from the metal, creating a kind of valley where the metal pushes itself in. You’re doing it from the backside of a decently thick plastic then this won’t become much of an issue , and if you intend to sand and repaint the surface of the plastic afterwards, this also might not be too much of an issue, but you will have to make sure that the end of the staple is somehow cut a little bit deeper than the surface of the plastic that might be viewed. All in all for the purposes, that I finally use this tool, for it did exactly what I needed, and I wasn’t terribly concerned about how it looked in the end because certainly my pets will not care what the outside of the dish looks like so long as the dish opens and they get to the food that’s inside of it in a timely fashion as per their internal clocks. I could definitely see using this to repair plastic body parts and components on vehicles provided the repair and stitching was being done from the outside, so as not to distort the viewable surface of anything that you were attempting Repair on. Read more

Works great. Bought another 220 watt one that didn’t work well at all. Returned and got this one, which is excellent. Read more

Worked awesome for about 10 minutes, then stopped working in about 30 minutes. Gun got hot and started smoking. I took it apart, tightened a loose terminal on the posts leaving the housing. Worked even better than the first 10 minutes. Staples got hotter and gun stayed colder! Read more