#plastic

My wife needed some boxes for her pills. I made an apparatus to compress melted HDPE grocery bags to make a pretty dense plastic. I also melted some Polypropylene yogurt containers which made harder plastic that was easier to single point thread. The HDPE worked well, but the threads get a...

To see full video, visit our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bl1LPL8uVU This video explains how to clamp plastic block into a vise. It demonstrates internal geometry changes based on clamping forces.

To see full video, visit our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bl1LPL8uVU This video explains how to chamfer plastic and how to countersink a fastener into a plastic block.

Some people are not very familiar working with plastics. So we will continuously be adding useful info about plastics, here are few first ones we put together: Joining and Gluing ABS Painting parts with molded-in colors - a great partnership. Your Guide To ABS Drop us a note if you find...

HDPE blocks: excellent impact resistance, light weight, low moisture absorption, and high tensile strength

Photo from last Father's Day. ABS has excellent dimensional stability and is easy to paint and glue