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Keith
 
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Default Repairing plastic/polyethylene boats

They were probably PVC.

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Keith
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of
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"Bray Haven" wrote in message
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hiya
Im a plastics engineer by trade and yes you are correct almost no glue

will
adhere to HDPE or PP (polypropolene) do you know which one it is ?


When I was an Old Town dealer they had a repair kit for their royalex

canoes
that adhered very well. Know of some that were patched 15 yrs ago & still
holding fine. They had color matched goo in there that stayed put after

you
prepped the area well with abrasive & solvent.
Greg Sefton