Plastic in freezer cracked/worn

pjomara

Is there anyway of fixing the following?

It's making the drawer very difficult to push in and out.

Chunks

Bit of a bodge but do you have a hot glue gun? I repaired a broken plastic tray that had shattered with the plastic glue that held it together (and filled the gaps of the bits that were missing) shaped and smoothed it while hot with a wet finger worked ok (but not pretty).

You might find a usable liner in an old freezer (freecycle and swap it)? might be quite a job.....

sillygoose

You can get a 2 part epoxy that is like putty material, the epoxy is one stripe and the hardener is the other. You work them together to mix and end up with something like plastercine. You could push it into the ripped liner until its got a good grip and leave some sticking out and mould it into a new drawer runner. When it sets it turns into a hard material.

Only 2 possible catches, 1. is the plastic the sides are made of substantial enough to hold the resin and not just break off elsewhere 2. it looks quite a big hole so you may need quite a lot of the stuff. I do think I have seen it in Poundland or Poundstretcher though.

It looks like yellow insulation foam poking out, I would remove that in the tear and see how far back I could push the resin in to get a good grip.

rev229

The same thing happened to my 2 yr old john lewis fridge freezer. It was replaced under warrenty as they could not mend it!

pjomara

sillygoose wrote: »

You can get a 2 part epoxy that is like putty material, the epoxy is one stripe and the hardener is the other. You work them together to mix and end up with something like plastercine. You could push it into the ripped liner until its got a good grip and leave some sticking out and mould it into a new drawer runner. When it sets it turns into a hard material.

Only 2 possible catches, 1. is the plastic the sides are made of substantial enough to hold the resin and not just break off elsewhere 2. it looks quite a big hole so you may need quite a lot of the stuff. I do think I have seen it in Poundland or Poundstretcher though.

It looks like yellow insulation foam poking out, I would remove that in the tear and see how far back I could push the resin in to get a good grip.

Thanks I'll try and find the epoxy you mention. I think the plastic is substantial enough to hold the resin. Scooping out some yellow insulation to get a better grip is a good idea.
It's a hotpoint fridge freezer and I'm disappointed that it wasn't durable enough to last 4 years. It's the largest drawer that it's happened to and it's on both sides but the other side isn't as bad. I think in future I'll get freezers with equal sized drawers or something stronger than a plastic moulding to hold the drawer.
I've heard that some freezer companies provide a repair kit so I'll also look into that.

sillygoose

Unibond do one, so do JML so stores that sell that stuff. Also worth a visit to halfords body repair section. Probably sell larger tins of repair resin that could be used too.