How to repair a handle on a plastic window?

I used to think that repairing a broken handle on a PVC window is not worth it, so it will crack again very soon, because the place of the break always has the greatest load. And thereforeit was necessary to make the handle virtually the same strength. This goal can be achieved if, in addition to glue, additional reinforcement of the structure with some kind of metal is used - reinforcement, so to speak.

The reinforcement, in my case, was a pair of thin yellow self-tapping screws, length 40 mm. Due to the suitable thickness and the possibility, if necessary, I chose the yellow ones to bend them.

The self-tapping screws had to be half-mounted in both parts of the broken handle and thus united into one whole. But I decided to do it in different parts in different ways.

At the initial stage, I bit off the heads with pliers from the screws and began to drill holes where the plastic is thicker. The most suitable for this turned out to be

drill 2 mm, which is slightly smaller than the diameter of the selected self-tapping screw. After drilling holes on one part, I transferred the drilling locations to the other with marks and repeated the procedure. I did not worry about a very exact correspondence of the holes, I will explain why later.

After drilling the holes, I continued to work with the main part of the handle. He poured a couple of drops of quick-drying glue into the holes in it and screwed self-tapping screws into them with pliers. I just did it with the blunt, that is, the bitten off side. After a short break for the glue to dry, I checked the position of the protruding parts of the screws for alignment and correspondence with their holes in another piece of the handle.

The self-tapping screws had to be slightly bent vertically and horizontally to match, and I was going to compensate for the possible residual discrepancy by melting the wit into the handle.

As I already emphasized at the beginning, I mounted the screws in different parts in different ways. For the case pulled gas burner-a help, although it was possible to warm up the screws in any other way.

After turning on the burner applied a little glue to the fracture site on the handle part without self-tapping screws and immediately began to warm up the tips of the screws, but so that they did not melt the plastic from the inside on the screwed side.

Now it remained to drive the heated self-tapping screws into the fragment and, while they are hot, finally correct the position of both parts and press tightly to glue together. The glue, naturally, should not have time to dry by this time.

This was probably the fastest and most crucial stage of work.

I wanted, of course, that the place of gluing remained completely invisible, but it did not work out that way. Although this issue can be solved separately, if desired, using something suitable for grouting the crack. You can even gently cover with nail polish, drip paint, etc.

I stopped at this stage, because I had already achieved the desired result. The main goal was to check how successful the connection with self-tapping screws will be.

Later I inserted the handle into the window and tested it for operability in all positions with normal loads. The test is passed successfully, which means the overall result is positive. That's all! If you have your own experience in repairing window handles, share your thoughts and write what you think about the considered repair method.

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