{"id":342,"date":"2010-08-26T15:36:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T07:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/?p=342"},"modified":"2010-08-26T15:36:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T07:36:21","slug":"wrapping-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/2010\/08\/26\/wrapping-heating\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping & Heating"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m continuing to wrap the bottom bracket joint today. I’ve now done a total of 9 layers, which I’m pretty sure will be enough for a sturdy and stiff BB.<\/p>\n

After wrapping up each series of layers in cling wrap and PVC tape I place it inside my homemade autoclave<\/a>. It gets up to 80 degrees C in there, with just a regular old hairdryer. 30-40minutes is all it needs at that temperature to cure the epoxy enough that the wrapping can be removed. It will continue to cure at room temperature over the next few days.<\/p>\n

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a hairdryer stuck into a carboard box. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m continuing to wrap the bottom bracket joint today. I’ve now done a total of 9 layers, which I’m pretty sure will be enough for a sturdy and stiff BB. After wrapping up each series of layers in cling wrap and PVC tape I place it inside my homemade autoclave. It gets up to 80 … Continue reading “Wrapping & Heating”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[30,27],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3c6R0-5w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboobikes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}