Hotplate in the workshop!

[mr72]

Watching this video about replacing the water pump seal and bearings on a scooter and this cat 'Robot' has a brilliantly innovative idea:

He's using a regular hotplate to heat up parts that need to be separated, rather than a torch or heat gun like most of us might ordinarily use. Brilliant!

 

[Jeff S]

I JUST watched another video of a guy boiling (with shop hotplate) rubber intake manifolds to soften them up enough to allow push-fitting onto the cylinder and carbs ("boil" is over-statement, rather it was a slow warming to just below boiling). REALLY wish I was smart enough to do that on the Super Hawk...

Clever people out there (mixed in with a lot of not-clever people )

 

[mr72]

I JUST watched another video of a guy boiling (with shop hotplate) rubber intake manifolds to soften them up enough to allow push-fitting onto the cylinder and carbs ("boil" is over-statement, rather it was a slow warming to just below boiling). REALLY wish I was smart enough to do that on the Super Hawk...

Clever people out there (mixed in with a lot of not-clever people )

Yeah, if you watch to the end of this, there's a point at which you are to "press" the reconditioned part/bearings into the side cover, and he just puts that aluminum side cover by itself on the hotplate and then basically drops in the new part with just a couple of taps. Hot plate seems like a whole lot safer way to do this sort of thing too.

 

[Cagiva 549]

I cook parts in oil if i want to heat them and a hot air heat gun is the best thing in the world for working with hard rubber parts