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Mora sheath mod help. What plastic is used on clipper sheath?

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I want to cut the clip area from the clipper sheath and fasten it to the sheath body lower down so that it's a high-ride sheath. I'm not sure which plastic is used for the sheath. Is there a glue that will work well enough (like PVC cement, which melts the plastic together)? Another thread some time ago mentioned super-glue, but I wouldn't trust that. Thanks for any help.
 
I guarantee there is no glue or special plastic epoxy that you'll ever be able to fully trust. Injection molded plastics of this type simply don't like to bond to anything.

Buy some leather or kydex.
 
I know they use some kind of thermoplastic. It isn't much, but it is more than nothing.

For my Mora, I just cut the strap off, poked a hole in it, and crudely hammered a copper rivet in the hole with a strip of leather. Now my Mora has a cool looking swinging belt loop (that is made for lefty carry). The leather was scrap and the rivet was about a dollar at a hardware store.
 
Pretty sure it's polypropylene. Nothing likes to stick to that stuff--it's even notoriously difficult to color. :)
 
Broke the clip off a clipper sheath by accident on a cold day. Reattached it with, IIRC, jb weld. It's ugly, but it's held. I guess it worked 'cause I didn't know it wasn't supposed to. dkb45's solution is probably better, though. I've always wondered what it'll take to re-break mine.
 
Solvent Weld or Heat Weld polypro if you are using two pieces of the same material. Or a simpler solution (mentioned above) rivets (alum., brass, copper, stainless) or maybe Chicago Screws (stainless, brass, alum.).
 
Spey said:
Solvent Weld or Heat Weld polypro if you are using two pieces of the same material. Or a simpler solution (mentioned above) rivets (alum., brass, copper, stainless) or maybe Chicago Screws (stainless, brass, alum.).
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That's what I was thinking. I guess I should have phrased it "which solvent". Do you think PVC cement would melt it together? Maybe I'll just get some rivets, probably the best solution.
 
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