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Warm daah before taking it apart?
On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:32:00 -0400, micky >
wrote: >In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:40:20 -0400, wrote: > >>On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:45:51 -0400, micky > >>wrote: >> >>>I have to remove the air vents above the radio in the middle of the dash >>>tomorrow, on a 2005 Toyota. >>> >>>I tried today several times and the bezel or whatever bent without >>>breaking, but the thing popped back where it was originally. >>> >>>I'm worried about cracking or breaking the plastic. Today was 68, >>>tomorrow will be 71 they say. >>> >>>Is it better to do this in warm weather? I can turn on the heater and >>>warm up the plastic, if that will either make it less likely to break, >>>or more likely for the rectangular plastic plugs to slip out of their >>>rectangular plastic sockets. 3 at the top and 3 at the bottom, left, >>>right, and middle. >>> >>>I should more closely but I think or I assume the console and the box >>>below the radio have the same kind of plugs and they came out easily, >>>twice. The box doesn't even require any extra pulling, in the videos >>>I've seen and in person. No harder than picking it up from a table. So >>>i don't know why these are so hard. More sunlight on them? >> Don't do it in cold, but 68F is not cold. > >Of course 68 is not cold, but the point of the question was whether it >would work better if it were even warmer. You didn't address that. > >Maybe someone else could tell me what they think about warming the vents >to 75 or 80, or even warmer. Would it help keep the plastic from >cracking? > >>Things are seldom as simple as they look on U-Tube - get used to it. > >What are you talking about? Taking off the console top and the box were >just as simple for me as they were in the videos and I didn't comment on >how hard it was in the videos to do air vents. > >But they did get the air vents off, so clearly I know that it's not >always as easy as the video or I wouldn't have bothered to ask about >them. > >You just want to carp, even if it's irrelevant to what I said. No mickey - I don't just want to carp and didn't even notoce it was you asking the question. If platic is old and has lost plasticity, heat won't help. If it is a thermoset plastic, heat won't help. Extreme cold will still make it worse - but anything above 50 or 60 F isn't going to make much (if any) difference. This from decades of experience repairing cars ( and recently even working on some older planes) |
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