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Re: Thermoplastic Question

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Originally Posted by urkelman91 View Post
To be specific, is thermoplastic legal for fitting components that are typically incompatible? For instance, fitting together a gear to a threaded bolt, each with differing diameters?

Edit: Punctuation
Is it legal? Yes. (Or rather, I don't remember any rule saying that you can't use it that way.)

Is it the best way to do it? That depends. If you have a machine shop, I'd see about making a coupler out of something like aluminum or a rather solid plastic.
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