White industrial "Teflon?" type plastic. Offcuts etc.

[Pancakes]

If a bronze bushing/sleeve was available off the shelf that'd be a different story. Will get the calipers out tomorrow, lots of places are posting PDF's of their stock range on the net now which saves me tons of calls like I used to have to make when I decided to jimmy something up in the past.

[Max Preload]

If a bronze bushing/sleeve was available off the shelf that'd be a different story. Will get the calipers out tomorrow, lots of places are posting PDF's of their stock range on the net now which saves me tons of calls like I used to have to make when I decided to jimmy something up in the past.

Let me know the size and I'll see what I can dig up. Or try Mico metals for offcuts.

[Conquiztador]

Used to be a place called Ceelon Plastics in Penrose when I lived in Akl. U go in, tell them what U want the plastic to do and they tell U the options.

[clint640]

That's not UHMWPE... it's nylon. Still probably fairly suitable for this particular job but he should bear in mind that nylons are more hygroscopic than most engineering plastics, so allow greater clearances or you could find the shifter tightly bound at an inconvenient moment.

Could be either, but I would put my money on most chopping boards being HDPE rather than Nylon (polyamide)

Cheers
Clint

[Max Preload]

Could be either, but I would put my money on most chopping boards being HDPE rather than Nylon (polyamide)

Cheers
Clint

Could be right there - both are food grade - bloody hard to tell though.

[hayd3n]

the way i test them is to weld em but there probably is other ways
uhmwpe is a little more flexible and does not craze when exposed to uv