What type of plastic is that dingy-semen looking stuff that you find in the gearboxes of things like Wen brand electrics saws or drills?
You can often see some sort of, lighter colored, filler/flow lines in it.
Seems there's almost always something in the craigslist ads that "just needs a new gear" and it's made from that stuff.
And NLA of course!
A while back, I was looking for a coffer grinder for someone. Thought i might have found one.
The company touted that it stocked/had repair parts to keep their units going for many years.
I scrolled through the parts listings and...
Seemed ok, until, I noticed that the reduction gear was made from that spooge-plastic.
I just went with a direct drive burr unit/brand instead.
VCRs, Cassette decks, drills, etc. After rotted rubber belts, the most common problem that I saw was a gear, (made from that spooge stuff), was broken (always split into two pieces) and always NLA (while many other parts still listed as available).
Those gears usually were split well before the motor brushes were worn out.
I generaly looked for signs of them splitting on a flow line or the "fiber" or an injection point, but the splits always seemed to start at the root of a tooth.
Amost never any striped or distorded teeth it seemed, just the whole part splitting.
