Broken Zooplus cage - Advice/ideas welcome.

LunaTheHamster1 · 10-14-2020, 07:36 AM

So The lovely Ria sent me a zooplus large cage, so well wrapped and marked as fragile, the top arrived broken thanks to the delivery company.

Cage .jpg

Cage 1 .jpg

So been trying to come up with plans for my friend to try and fix it.

Plan A: using a solder iron and spare bits of plastic, melt it together to try and cover the gaps.

Plan B: Try and do the best we can with plan A, if need be mesh it - burn holes through the plastic and using zip ties attach mesh

Plan C: If Plan A and B go totally wrong, remove a chunk of the plastic, if we can get hold of a dremel and then add mesh to a clean neat corner

Anyone ever done this? thoughts/idea/advice welcome.

At this point we can't make it any worse (or maybe we can

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Engel · 10-14-2020, 10:00 AM

Ah. That might be a issue. Have you located the bits of plastic? Super glue it?

Get in touch with the courier as it's their fault. They'll either replace it or give the money back? I think anyway.

I'll keep thinking of ideas though

LunaTheHamster1 · 10-14-2020, 10:03 AM

I saved as many of the bits i could, but some are like dust!!! So some bits can be stuck back in, but there will be some gaps still

Ria is sorting the refund out (hopefully)

Amethyst_ice · 10-14-2020, 12:16 PM

what about trying to use epoxy resin? get the biggest bits in place and resin over to create a smooth layer? the mesh idea i have seen but on bases rather than tops. The soldering iron and outer epoxy layer would be my go t, i got my epoxy poundland, stinks of fish!

Fairycake · 10-14-2020, 02:18 PM

The only other thing I can think of that hasn’t been suggested is a 3D pen.

Ria P · 10-14-2020, 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fairycake

The only other thing I can think of that hasn’t been suggested is a 3D pen.

What's a 3D pen?

Fairycake · 10-14-2020, 02:27 PM

Google 3D printing pen. It’s a pen that melts plastic and you draw with it. As the plastic cools it sets hard. I will try post a link to an example but not sure if it will work.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Printing-Pe...a-683992442299

Ria P · 10-14-2020, 02:35 PM

That's interesting. I had never heard of it but i had never heard of epoxy resin either.
I'm going to have a nose around Hobbycraft tomorrow to check out those things.

Pebbles82 · 10-14-2020, 02:44 PM

Is it a Zoozone? Such a pain. Looking at the photos I’d be tempted to try and repair on the inside. So option A probably.

Vectis has a good page on cage repair

https://vectishams.com/blog/mending-hole-cage/

LunaTheHamster1 · 10-15-2020, 12:18 AM

Thanks everyone. Serendipity I am quite ill at the moment and yes I meant zoozone not zooplus. I was doing several things at once and not very with it.

Yes, i know about Vectis page, I had already sent that to my friend.
Fairycake, that 3d pen is genius, i think that would work. Passed the info onto my friend.

Amethyst I had thought of resin but then forgot about it, i wasn't sure how easy it would be to shape it and get it to set without it going everwhere, or am I thinking more of those resin pours when they have been added to another runnier liquid???

Anyway, thanks everyone. I am hopeful my friend can fix it.