Team Eventorizon: Build Diary

[Eventorizon]

Plastics can always retain water, try drying it out, might help a bit.

Its lived in our back room next to the radiator for the past 6 months so I doubt it.

[harry hills]

Don't do that.

[overkill]

I looked up HDPE and it is said to not adsorb water at all, one of the reasons it is used for chopping blocks and food containers.

[Eventorizon]

Its Nylon 66, not HDPE. That was one of my annoyance earlier, and no I won't actually put it on the boiler, even thought I doubt it would do anything to it since it only gets luke warm.

[RogueTwoRobots]

If you want a boiler to dry it out on, you're going to have to find a 20+ year old open-flued, old-school one. Modern ones are too efficient these days

[grant_ploughbot]

You want to keep Nylon with the water in. It gets pretty brittle without! We leave nylon wheels in storage in a sealed bag with a small amount of water in the bottom.

[Eventorizon]

Need some help with the Banebots P60 gearboxes.

I am trying to remove the main shaft from the front of the gearbox. I assumed it was a simple matter of removing the Circlip from the back and sliding it out but neither of them are budging, the move a few more mm and then stop.

Am I missing something or do I need to give them a tap with a hammer? I don't want to do that until I know that's what the need.

[Mouldy]

they should press/tap out... sounds like the circlip groove as burred over... tap it back into place, clean the shaft up with emery cloth then it should push out fine.

[Eventorizon]

Thanks Dave. When you retapped the threads did you just go over the original 10-32 with an M5 Tap or did you need to pilot it out with a 4.5mm bit first?

[calumco]

the drill for an m5 tap is 4.2mm
or 4.65 i think it is for a roll tap