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Originally Posted by HunterDave
I just had a thought. What if I could level the surface where the plastic piece broke off and I glued a nut to it? I would think that it might be stronger than gluing that plastic piece back on. Is there a glue that would hold the nut tight and would this idea be feasible?
Maybe better yet, if I forgot about gluing the plastic piece on and applied an epoxy in layers to build it up, would I be able to drill a pilot hole into it that I could screw into?
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Probably easier to glue the pieces on. I'd at least try then if nothing else you can resort to something like that.
Depending how far the screws go in you could fill some of that cavity with epoxy or make a dowel with epoxy etc.
I used epoxy to glue together a headlight on one of my old cars. It held for the rest of the cars life(5+ years and probably 100+k).
There are other tricks you could do like trying to melt some steel mesh around the posts before epoxying but that just gets complicated and makes it easier to mess up.
One other idea which may work depending on how things go together would be to epoxy in a threaded rod to act as a stud.