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| Hello all, May be I can help a bit with this conversation, I work in plastic injection moulds, when injecting ABS it becomes stressed cause of the path it must take to fill the cavity of the mould, when ejected from the mould, the parts are supposed (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| Hi Louis, (and all), I certainly don't dispute your explanation of the casting process, not at all - in fact I found it interesting to read about the cooling process. However, all the RC-10-family cars I've ever owned were made of nylon. At least (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| In lugnet.technic, Kevin Maynes writes: <snip> (...) That's what this was all about: (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Been there, done that :) I think the gears are made of one kind of plastic (nylon?), axels another and bricks a third (ABS). Upon my searching through the Internet I've found a lot of pages about RC-car-wheel-boiling... /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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