godek
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Post by godek on Feb 8, 2020 4:06:59 GMT -6
I have recently obtained two Es. Both are suffering from bakelit rot.
One has a handle shrunk to half the original size. The other looks fine, but the metal part is loose in the bakelit.
What are my options here?
Keep the good looking one as is for display purposes? (I have no displays as of now).
Make a new handle for the worse one? If so, how? I'd like to print a new handle, but my efforts to learn how to CAD have not worked out well.
Really lost on this one, so please help!
br godek
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Post by wchnu on Feb 8, 2020 5:04:58 GMT -6
jayaruh has made wooden handles for those. I have one of them actually.
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riverrun
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Post by riverrun on Feb 8, 2020 5:29:46 GMT -6
Make a new handle for the worse one? If so, how? I'd like to print a new handle, but my efforts to learn how to CAD have not worked out well. I had a look. there doesn't seem to be a 3D model for those handles. I sold all both of my E/G injectors and they weren't broken anyway. So I can't help. An idea: what's the diameter of the rod going into the handle? Big enough to give it a thread and use a conventional M5x0.8 handle?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2020 10:05:15 GMT -6
Your options are to throw them away or separate them immediately. Its contagious and will spread to other vintage resins. Old plastics like that need to be stored in open air too.
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Post by Tony'schin on Feb 8, 2020 10:52:53 GMT -6
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Post by jayaruh on Feb 8, 2020 11:10:54 GMT -6
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Post by Tony'schin on Feb 8, 2020 11:29:49 GMT -6
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Post by jayaruh on Feb 8, 2020 11:49:03 GMT -6
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riverrun
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Post by riverrun on Feb 8, 2020 13:19:35 GMT -6
Your options are to throw them away or separate them immediately. Its contagious and will spread to other vintage resins. Old plastics like that need to be stored in open air too. You're confusing this with celluloid rot.
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rayr
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Post by rayr on Feb 8, 2020 14:07:20 GMT -6
I love my Bakelite handled E2's, I love the look and feel of Bakelite, I'm not afraid of asbestos laden Bakelite dust or whatever scary stuff leaping out into the air that the author wrote about. I haven't had a Bakelite handle break like I have with the cheap brittle plastic on a G1.
I have seen a few pictures of shrunken cracked Bakelite handles on Schick E's, it's almost like they were exposed to high heat of something. I don't know what would cause that to happen under normal conditions.
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Post by Electrif on Feb 8, 2020 15:56:59 GMT -6
I've made a number of these. They look so good. They are, that one's mine.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2020 16:53:52 GMT -6
Your options are to throw them away or separate them immediately. Its contagious and will spread to other vintage resins. Old plastics like that need to be stored in open air too. You're confusing this with celluloid rot. Bakelite doesn't have this problem too?
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Post by Tony'schin on Feb 8, 2020 23:25:07 GMT -6
They are, that one's mine. I thought I recognised it. Was not sure though.
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