Radius Pivot 0356 Disassembly Help

[DontGetHit]

I want to try and take this thing apart to fix the picture issue, but I have no idea how to start. I was wondering if anyone had instructions on how to disassembly these.

 

[olePigeon]

Someone somewhere on this forum took apart their Radius Pivot to repair the mercury switch. I just can't find it. Maybe someone else here with a better search-fu can find it. I seem to recall there were a few snags they ran into.

 

[DontGetHit]

Someone somewhere on this forum took apart their Radius Pivot to repair the mercury switch. I just can't find it. Maybe someone else here with a better search-fu can find it. I seem to recall there were a few snags they ran into.

I actually managed to figure it out. It's pretty straight forward. HOWEVER, I broke about 1000 pieces of plastic in the process. I'm pretty sure its the same plastic as a 6200CD. I have it literally taped together as well as plastic knives jammed in the angle department to keep it angled up since the plastic holding the springs broke. But it had to be done since it was essentially unusable. If anyone finds this DO NOT take it apart unless you absolutely have to. If yours is dirty or yellowed, it's not worth it imo.

 

[olePigeon]

Oh man, that sucks.

How small are the broken pieces? You still might be able to fix them. Use a larger piece of hobby plastic as a substrate, then glue the broken pieces back together like a puzzle. If they're screw standoffs, you could sort of glue the post back together, then fill it with epoxy resin. Then buy a cheap thread tapper to make new threads (or self tapping screw of the same threading ... which might be more difficult and might not be any cheaper.)

 

[DontGetHit]

Oh man, that sucks.

How small are the broken pieces? You still might be able to fix them. Use a larger piece of hobby plastic as a substrate, then glue the broken pieces back together like a puzzle. If they're screw standoffs, you could sort of glue the post back together, then fill it with epoxy resin. Then buy a cheap thread tapper to make new threads (or self tapping screw of the same threading ... which might be more difficult and might not be any cheaper.)

They are mostly small little hooks and threads but I snapped a huge chunk of the rotation disk. That could have been avoided but the other stuff was just a side effect of taking it apart. Fortunately its hidden when I have it perfectly centered. I probably will try to glue stuff back at some point. But right now it stands and rotates so as long as it does that I'm good.