Rob shows a clip of plastic laminating where heat fuses plastic to paper.
Fusing plastic sheets.
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.
Peel parchment paper away from finished plastic sheet.
You will need 2 6 layers of plastic to make the fused fabric.
These can be made in arbitrary 2d shapes by using a soldering iron to.
Cut the plastic bags.
I show how to use a soldering iron to fuse plastic together.
If the layers are not all melted together iron it some more.
Now you can use this stuff to make a million things.
Use the cutting board and roller off the parts you do not want.
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.
Peel a corner of the paper back to see if the plastic is fused together.
You might want the labels or not.
4 hot gas welding.
Welding guns for plastics contain an electrically or gas heated chamber through which a gas usually dry air or nitrogen is passed.
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.
Fusing plastic bags the eclipse way step 1.
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.
This can be used to seal bags make them to the specific size of the object inside and create an.
To prepare the grocery bags for fusing you need to trim off the handles and trim off the.
There s no shortage of those in the world unfortunately.
If you want to experiment with pneumatic devices you ll likely find yourself in need of custom inflatable bladders eventually.
It should be fairly smooth and one sheet to the touch watch out its a little hot.