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Re: Melting Point of ABS (Re: Strengthening Gears)
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:07:03 GMT
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If you would just put your bricks in the kitchen oven you would make rapid
progress with this question.
Better yet, obtain a laboratory hot plate with fine temperature control and
put a brick between two slides with a weight on top. Do this at several
temperatures and observe the rate of deformation.
As a crude experiment, chop up a brick and pack it into a small crucible.
You should be able to fuse the particles in a kitchen oven at about 500 F,
but without applied pressure they will be easy to pull apart again.
Remember, experience without theory teaches nothing, so look up those terms
after you've been forbidden to put any more objects in the oven.
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 | | Re: Melting Point of ABS (Re: Strengthening Gears)
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| (...) They're clearly not extruded... that's the kind Plastruct(R) uses. But if they're just plain molded and not impact grade I am hoping they are from the higher end of the range. The low end mold temp (and I agree with Thomas Avery's speculations (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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