{"id":1342,"date":"2020-02-10T14:13:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2020-07-16T04:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:30:19","slug":"a-difficult-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"A difficult situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen in the photo, the screw that holds the oil damper is broken, with the broken part stuck inside the screw hole of the lower arm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1345\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car1.png 359w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car1-278x300.png 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drilling through it is not practical as it would damage the plastic structure around the broken screw.<\/p>\n<p>A better way is to cut off some of the surrounding plastic so to expose a little bit of the broken screw. You want to be able to slowly take out the screw with a small clamp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1344\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car2.png 329w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car2-276x300.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After removing the broken screw, you want to file or cut the plastic to produce a flat surface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1346\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car3.png 343w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car3-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, put in a spacer and a new screw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car5.png\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1352\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car4.png 319w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car4-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1351\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car5.png 349w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/car5-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen in the photo, the screw that holds the oil damper is broken, with the broken part stuck inside&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-tip-arms-hubs-shaft-etc","category-free-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}