by Savage on Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:03 pm
I'm going to add my 2 cents.
You're going to need to do more than glue it shut and paint it
First, you're going to need to open it up, and re-align the cracked sides.
Then, on the inside of the gun you're going to need to reinforce a lot of the surface area around and across the crack. Small steel/polymer sheet of some sort, glued in.
Then, there are two ways to fix the crack itself.
1: Glue it
2: (I prefer this) Melt it with a soldering iron you won't need again. Then, add a glue, or rubber adhesive of some sort into the channel made by the iron, sand extremely finely.
Then after that, you're going to paint it.
If done right it will look perfect
And, if that part has broken before, it's going to see more abuse. You're going to need to reinforce it, instead of just glueing it. It will prevent many more fixes in the future.