boiling plastic part

[rjmods.net]

arms wing anything plastic nylon,exept for graphite parts it wont work.this realy works i do my wing and front arms .bring water to a boil and thow em in for a couple min.what it does is absorbs moisture and makes them softer .less britle my wing i can bend in a u shape wont break but it is possible they can break but not as easy.its a must for 1/10 st.trucks .

[z3usX5]

This also is good to change the colors with some rit dye!

[rjmods.net]

that would be cool rite dye ,is that the brand .i have green rims i want to make black think it will work.

[z3usX5]

Yup: http://www.ritdye.com/ get it at walmart, in the liquid version.

[ImGoinRCn]

We used to do that with our rims to make them less brittle.

If you are dying your parts, Rit (http://www.ritdye.com/b.asp) has a color chart of making custom colors.

www.dyes.com is another place. Don't know much about them but I had the link in my bookmarks.

[rjmods.net]

cool thanks ill check it out:thumbs:

[RC_KAOS]

I've always heard of this trick but I have never done it myself.

Cheers

[z3usX5]

It works great, just keep it in the water until its as dark as you want.

[scoobie]

Hey rj, after looking at the sleve in your avy pic...I want to see more of your work. Start a new thread to show us what you can do!!!

[rjmods.net]

ill look but i have only a few pics ,only took pics for site.but i can do that my next engine.start a thread before after somthing like that.

[AZRCaddict]

But remember you can only dye darker

[pjabas]

i dyed my first parts the other day man it was ez as pie, i boiled water in a pan on stove, put in the rit powder, stirred for one minute, dumped into a gladware container, with the parts i wanted to dye and after ten minutes i checked and they where black,

[rjmods.net]

i did the same today works and looks great.:thumbs:

[pjabas]

i dyed more parts today, and i just used my left over dye,water, mix i just boiled it again, and it worked as good as the first time,

[rjmods.net]

thats good then i kept mine in a coffee can.:thumbs:

[pjabas]

so i found more parts to dye, it worked great, three different dye sessions on the same batch of dye, :thumbs:

[iLL-Mitch]

Ok back to the real question on this thread, I am curious about boiling my front uppers and lowers on my mbx5t. Has anyone done this before and how good has it worked? Thanks for any info on boiling parts to make them last longer and be stronger!

[cbonner99]

Saw this somewhere else. Haven't tried it myself, but, bring water to boiling point and remove from heat then put in parts and let sit until cool. This speeds up the natural absorption of water into the plastic.
Personally I have had some pretty hard hits on my 5T and not had arms break. Hit the end of a wall (oval) at full throttle and took two people to get it free and no breakage.

[Grasshopper]

Ill-Mitch : forget trying to modify your plastic parts to solve this problem. :nono:

The real solution is to stop crashing! :thumbs:

TQ + DNF = driving beyond your capabilites. :)

[tommy2112]

iam going to agree with grasshopper , it seems every race you tq then break in the main, i know i have told you if you slow down youd be faster !!! stop trying to take the triple when your not setup for it !! seems every race thats where you break !!! except for when chuck hit you head on !!!!

[cheesecake]

on the mugen i wouldnt boil anything if you boil the upper arms it might weaken the area the balls thread into the same with the lower front arm.

[pantera nitro]

i prefer the WD-40 method personally over the boiling option!

[Conrod]

Years ago, we used to do this trick to the original white 10T arms and carriers. Back then, there was an article in RCCA that said that when you boil a glass filled nylon part, the glass fibers try to straighten out a bit, and it also helps parts flex a little, instead of breaking.
Don't know if it was true or not, but after boiling, i never broke another rear arm or rear arm mount on the 10T.

[z3usX5]

I think boiling helps too. It helps on my 1/8 buggy wings form breaking.

[BoogeyMan]

i tell you what really help Zs buggy wing and thats being a spec of chicken .... to run it this year too .... cant break what you dont run :blbl:

[z3usX5]

how many times you ran this year? and last?

[BoogeyMan]

this year 3 more times than you :blbl: last year somebody worked on my buggy and blew it up on me :eek: :cry:

[z3usX5]

lol, nice try :nono:

i plan to run this weekend. Working on getting the dust off the mugen now.

[RACEREVO08]

whats the wd-40 method pantera?

[pantera nitro]

whats the wd-40 method pantera?

i soak the parts in WD-40 for 5-7 days i have found it better than boiling personally.

i get a zip lock sandwhich bag and put the parts in then spray or pour the wd-40 in and seal and put on a shelf