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Re: Thermoplastics in FIRST

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Originally Posted by kramarczyk View Post
We used sheet ABS for our control board last year and were pretty happy with it.
Where did you buy your sheet ABS (model# and thickness) ?


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Finally we clamped the sheet to the workbench with a piece of aluminum angle and heated the bend line with a heat gun till we could bend it easily by hand. Repeat until all the bends are complete.
Were you happy with this process, was it difficult to uniformly apply the heat ? We are considering other ways of heating the material like using a heat strip from Tap Plastics :
http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=169&

They have some neat videos about bending and molding plastics.
http://www.tapplastics.com/info/video.php?
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