>> used cuttings from a coke can as an internal skin with JBWeld
Hey, that’s pretty clever. I think I’ll give that technique a try sometime!
I was at Lowe’s trying to find some metal strips that were not thick. The clerk asked me how thick, and I said, “Like aluminum foil, only stronger. I then remembered using a rectangle cut from a coke can and bent into an L shaped rail that I JB Welded to a gaping hole in my radiator of my Reliant in the Moab Desert in 1998. It got me another 1,000 miles before I had to add more JB Weld. But I did let it dry only an hour and a half. ;-)
I told the clerk “never mind”.
It works amazingly. Aluminum soda cans are thick enough do be a really strong skin (unlike aluminum foil) but not so thick as to get in the way. Whenever I need to join two thin pieces of plastic, metal, etc. togehter, I can just cut the right shape from a soda can, slather it with JB Weld, press it into the back of the thin joint as a new metal skin and I have what I expect to be a permanent fix.