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any way to renew old dried up plastic parts??
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:30 pm
by longboardnj
i got a parts lot off ebay and the plastic parts seem very dried up and ready to crack. all the rod ends cracked when i took them off. i was going to clean them in boiling water then when they dried spray them with wd40. but i wanted to find out what people on here thought first..
Re: any way to renew old dried up plastic parts??
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:35 pm
by call-911
Are they plastic or nylon?
Re: any way to renew old dried up plastic parts??
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:33 pm
by longboardnj
i think plastic. they are white off 6 gear rc10s how would i tell ??
Re: any way to renew old dried up plastic parts??
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:00 pm
by call-911
If it's the white plastic off of an RC10, boiling them will make the nylon less brittle. Nylon absorbs water so boiling the parts will put a lot of the original "flex" back into them.
Re: any way to renew old dried up plastic parts??
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:22 am
by templeofspeed
The first generation ball cups tend to fall apart after 20+ years.