You might want the labels or not.
Fusing plastic sheets.
This is because in order to properly connect acrylic sheeting the adhesive solvent needs to be placed along the joints to ensure a durable finish.
Things you ll need 2 polycarbonate sheets methylene chloride or chloroform.
A method of welding plastic components in which the surfaces to be joined are heated by contact with electrodes of a high frequency electrical generator.
In fact gluing acrylic sheeting together is considered joining rather than gluing.
It should be fairly smooth and one sheet to the touch watch out its a little hot.
To prepare the grocery bags for fusing you need to trim off the handles and trim off the.
4 hot gas welding.
I show how to use a soldering iron to fuse plastic together.
If the layers are not all melted together iron it some more.
Fusing fusing the sheets lead to seamless and invisible end results with extremely strong and resilient sheets.
Apart from the great bond strength you can have excellent optical clarity with low capital investment by the method of fusing.
If you want to experiment with pneumatic devices you ll likely find yourself in need of custom inflatable bladders eventually.
Now you can use this stuff to make a million things.
Gluing together acrylic sheeting is a completely different process than traditional gluing methods.
Plastic sheeting is notoriously hard to join tape is messy and glue won t stick.
Rob shows a clip of plastic laminating where heat fuses plastic to paper.
This can be used to seal bags make them to the specific size of the object inside and create an.
Cut the plastic bags.
There s no shortage of those in the world unfortunately.
To fuse polycarbonates all you need are your sheets and methylene chloride.
A roller cutting blade is the fastest tool to cut seams handles and labels off of the bags.
Use the cutting board and roller off the parts you do not want.
Peel parchment paper away from finished plastic sheet.
You will need 2 6 layers of plastic to make the fused fabric.
Fusing plastic bags the eclipse way step 1.