Team Eventorizon: Build Diary

**harry hills** · 12th January 2015, 14:05

Don't do that.

**overkill** · 12th January 2015, 14:14

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** · 12th January 2015, 16:19

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** · 12th January 2015, 22:25

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** · 13th January 2015, 21:40

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** · 3rd April 2015, 18:24

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** · 3rd April 2015, 18:57

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** · 3rd April 2015, 20:11

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?