Savage's Fusion Generator

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As you may or may not have noticed in the previous images, the top portion of the lid has some issues .  It's difficult to see in this image because of the color of the plastic, but it's not what one would call smooth.

 

For this repair I went to something a little more durable. I used Milliput epoxy putty. Nifty stuff. I've been using it for years. (okay, okay. Decades. But decades are made of years, right?)

You use this stuff by cutting off equal sized segments of each stick and mixing them together until it's a uniform color. I knew I wasn't going to need much so I only cut off about a quarter of an inch of each. The yellow really overpowers the grey, color-wise, so you're mainly focusing on making sure there are no streaks and color is even.

  

Once it's mixed, smear it as best you can into/onto the areas you need to fill.

Once I had done that, I got my fingers wet in a small bowl of water and smeared it as smooth and flat as I could.

I had some putty left over after the what I've been thinking of as the "cap neck", so I went ahead and filled in some places on the main lid that I didn't think would easily smooth out.  from here I just let it harden for a few hours (overnight is usually best) and then it's ready for another round of sanding.