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Excellent thanks. What about the common plastics? I've seen HIPS mentioned a lot. That is the white plastic that is always for armor? And lexan has been done. How about ABS? Which is the easiest ...

Thanks!
I was worried that increasing current (since mine is now split across two breakers) would spell trouble for the wire, since it is already visibly glowing. So I looked up the specs on the Nic ...

What companies do the Canadian list members use for plastics? I am having trouble finding anything locally.

Also, is there a thread already on the different popular plastics that people use and th ...

430F?? So that's why my first attempt didn't work! I still blame it a bit on the ABS being 3/16" thick. (It's all I had).
My oven only got to 320F max. How bright do your coils glow? (And how ...

Well Princess Auto is slow as molasses in a Saskatchewan winter, but they finally got a (just 1) vacuum gauge in stock! I snatched it up then went to Home Depot and bought all the fittings and hose I ...

Yes I got the wire a few days ago, thanks! I should have said so when it came. I've got everything I need to start building the oven now (except for a trip to Home Depot) but I've got a ton of other ...

Would a filter between platen and tank need to be some kind of high-flow type? Or is the flow of these Sporlan's good enough?

(Alex, I sent you a message.)

I did some testing with the infrared thermometer today. The heatgun held the phenolic spacer around 200C degrees (sorry to non-metric people) for 10 minutes. I had f ...

Well for comparison, I don't imagine ceramic insulators toast and crumble when you blow torch them, do they? It might be wise to just go with the tried-and-true method. I took my infrared thermomete ...

Thanks for the warm welcome. I will definitely post pics when I have some.

Glad you enjoyed the robot video. There are some professionally done ones at www.pollockproductions.com under the Kilobot ...

Ha, good pic.
I don't know if they're very elusive. I grabbed 6 boxes of them when my work was tossing out old parts (I got a lot of goodies Smile

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They are .75" long spacers for a #6 screw, a ...

Here is a page I just found on phenolics: http://www.sdplastics.com/phenolic.html
It has thermal properties listed but I honestly don't know what they mean. For some reason (gut?) I'm sure it's good ...

I thought I'd name this thread after my team/store name and keep all the questions in the same place.

So here's where I'm at right now. There is a Robinair 16600 on its way up here (Saskatchewan, ...

Hi everyone, my name is Kurtis. I've been reading this forum for a few weeks and now have a good idea of what I will be building, save for a few questions.
I run a store that sells parts for combat ...