[Ri3D] BOOM DONE. We're not done...

[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

We played around with it too, it's pretty easy if you heat up the 1/2" hex shaft.

We just clamped a 1/2" hex shaft in a vise sticking straight up. Then we just heated it with a heat gun, didn't even need to use a torch. Then just press the 1/2" Schedule 80 PVC on to the hex shaft. We just pressed it by hand, it wasn't easy but it wasn't that difficult.

Yes, this is exactly what we did. Heat one end of a small (~6") hex shaft -- the other end in a vice. Get it hot and then just push the PVC tube onto the hot hex shaft.

Worked great for us.

Note. It is the size Schedule 80 that has a hole of a little bigger than 1/2"

That is the beautiful thing about Schedule 80 (rather than Schedule 40 available at Home Depot, Lowes, ...): you can get them in sizes with IDs just a hair bigger than 1/4", 3/8", & 1/2". That makes the perfect for making spacers for 1/4", 3/8", & 1/2" shafts.

FWIW.

Dr. Joe