I don't know anything about adhesives

Meiz

I am no handyman. I know nothing of glues or adhesives.

Take this scenario. Say I get an arcade stick and want to avoid the option of having to send it back to the seller, what are my options with this:



What can I do with this?

Thanks in advance.

dispatch.o

Depends on the type of arcade stick. You can try an adhesive but I don't know that you'll have much luck. I'd say your best bet is to try and salvage all of the parts and make a new box for it. Or you can just try to replace that single broken component.

I would probably take the broken part off the stick and try to use some modeling glue, it will actually melt the plastic and fuse it back together a bit. Then if I didn't like the result, try and make a replacement piece as best as possible using the glued piece as a template.

bowen

That looks suspiciously like someone broke it on purpose. I've had good luck with Loctite's epoxies.

Improvolone

I'm having a hard time getting a feel for how its broken, but I would go with a liquid epoxy (or something similar). Check out the glue area or your local hardware store of choice and read the labels, you want something that doesn't expand (stay away from gorilla glue), something that dries clear, and something made for plastic.
If you can apply pressurre to it while it cures (books or a clamp) you will get a better result.

RUNN1NGMAN

Crazy glue? I mean, it's good enough for this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVNtSjONdSw

Improvolone

Krazy glue has great tension strength, but its sheer strength sucks. I personally hate the stuff.

rfalias

Is replacing the stick an option?
There are Sites for this. They run pretty cheap, likely cheaper than your glues + labor.

a penguin

Replacing it is always the best option.

Epoxy will probably hold that pretty well though. Get the goo stuff (in tubes), not the clay-putty stuff (Quiksteel?). I forget which product I like, but loctite does make good stuff.

Get soem decent epoxy, mix it well (very important), apply and stick that bitch back together. Use a clamp if you have one. If you don't...buy one. No man should be without a clamp. It's in the book.

Edit: It's hard to tell from that picture, but is their any indication that the previous owner tried to glue it already? It looks like there might be some resin or something. If they did, that will make repair difficult.