Caravan on tour – how to get your mobile home shipshape for the new season

With the beginning of Easter time and the first sunny spring days, the new travel season kicks off for many camping-fans. But before the beloved mobile home can go on tour, it usually needs some repair and maintenance work. Many of our WEICON products are perfect for that.

I myself, only having camped in a tent so far, fulfilled myself a long-term dream together with my husband of owning our own little caravan. This gem was built in 1994 and is still in great condition for its age, yet the plastic gas locker box had a crack. I immediately thought to myself: “I:m sure that can be glued somehow“ and described the damage to our application engineer Mike.

To solve my problem, he handed me our  Plastic-Bond and some Glass Fibre Cloth Tape. The solvent-free structural adhesive is perfect for smaller DIY-works and shows very good adhesion to plastics. It is suitable for static as well as dynamic loads and has high impact strength. Due to its viscosity, the product can also be easiliy applied on vertical surfaces. The additional glass fibre tape improves the adhesion and compressive strength in combination with the Plastic-Bond.

Below, I compiled a step-by-step guide, which shows you how to apply the adhesive in combination with the glass fibre tape:

Step 1:

First, blend the two-component adhesive in a container. Note: Rather blend the mixture a minute too long than too short. Only once you have mixed a homogenous compound, the Plastic-Bond is ready to use.

Step 2:

Apply the adhesive evenly to the inside of the gas locker box over and around the crack.

Step 3:

Place the glass fibre tape right on top of the adhesive and make sure to cover the whole crack.

Step 4:

Then apply another layer of the adhesive generously on top of the glass fibre tape. It’s best to remove spare, non-cured adhesive immediately with our WEICON Surface Cleaner.

Our product range includes many other products, which are ideal for repairing and maintaining your caravan or camper. Here is a brief description of some of these useful helpers:

• powerful universal cleaner for residue-free cleaning
• cleans many different surfaces, such as streaks/water stains on the outer shell, insect residues on the nose, wet room/sanitary facilities, cushions

• protects all electronic contacts (12V and 220 V)
• repels moisture

• care product for car interiors

• locking of threads and stud bolts
• DVGW approval

• extremely strong adhesion, for smooth surfaces, high flexibility
• attaching and fixating of e.g. fly protection, towel holders, hooks, weather stations

• quick stripping of coaxial cables in just one single step
• space-saving mounting of F-connectors thanks to integrated open hexagon with wrench size 11 mm (SW 11)
• gripping jaws for for screwing F-connectors onto the cable

Written by Annabelle Kreft