Things you ll need 2 polycarbonate sheets methylene chloride or chloroform.
Fusing plastic sheets.
Peel parchment paper away from finished plastic sheet.
A roller cutting blade is the fastest tool to cut seams handles and labels off of the bags.
To prepare the grocery bags for fusing you need to trim off the handles and trim off the.
Use the cutting board and roller off the parts you do not want.
If the layers are not all melted together iron it some more.
Rob shows a clip of plastic laminating where heat fuses plastic to paper.
It should be fairly smooth and one sheet to the touch watch out its a little hot.
To fuse polycarbonates all you need are your sheets and methylene chloride.
Fusing plastic bags the eclipse way step 1.
Fusing fusing the sheets lead to seamless and invisible end results with extremely strong and resilient sheets.
Gluing together acrylic sheeting is a completely different process than traditional gluing methods.
Cut the plastic bags.
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.
4 hot gas welding.
In fact gluing acrylic sheeting together is considered joining rather than gluing.
You will need 2 6 layers of plastic to make the fused fabric.
Plastic sheeting is notoriously hard to join tape is messy and glue won t stick.
There s no shortage of those in the world unfortunately.
These can be made in arbitrary 2d shapes by using a soldering iron to.
Welding guns for plastics contain an electrically or gas heated chamber through which a gas usually dry air or nitrogen is passed.
This can be used to seal bags make them to the specific size of the object inside and create an.
I show how to use a soldering iron to fuse plastic together.
If you want to experiment with pneumatic devices you ll likely find yourself in need of custom inflatable bladders eventually.
You might want the labels or not.
Peel a corner of the paper back to see if the plastic is fused together.