PILOON
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I'd suspect that heat might be the culprit.Maybe a bad batch of recycled plastic to save money?
Heat, like in the 'cooking' process of fabrication.
I'd suspect that heat might be the culprit.Maybe a bad batch of recycled plastic to save money?
....or the curing process of different materials. It's a bad thing when too much shrinkage occurs.I'd suspect that heat might be the culprit.
Heat, like in the 'cooking' process of fabrication.
I agree that plastic can become brittle after time but less than 400 hours? It does get pretty hot here in the summer. 100 plus with humidity around 80 to 90%. Makes it feel like 115-120. But this summer wasn’t too bad. Only a few days like that. And we really haven’t had a cool snap yet. Until today. Never got out the 50s. Reckon four years could dry rot the plastic. And there’s two fins I still haven’t found. Just lucky it didn’t mess anything else up. New one should be in by tomorrow and get it back going Sunday or Monday.
is simple green ok to use on plastic? or can that cause the issue. ive never used it on plastic. but i really have no idea if its safe for plastic.
You do what you need to do to get the fan in. If you can lean the radiator forward enough to get room to slip the fan in... do it. I wouldn't remove the bolts completely to lean the rad forward. Just loosen enough to do the job. It makes it a lot easier to put everything back together.Got the old fan off. New one still not in. Question here for the mechanics. Can I just unbolt the bottom two bolts on the radiator and lean forward enough to get new fan on or do I have to completely remove radiator?