Re: Secondary form ideas

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 9/7/02 1:23:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


>
> The salesman, who seem to be very knowledgeable on the
> topic of plastic fabrication, thought that it would be feasible to bend
> acrylic into a cylinder around a form while applying heat from heat tape or
> a heat gun and then weld the ends using standard Methylene Chloride cement.
> And then he demonstrated how one could simply bend polycarbonate sheet



Dave,

I did this one time, but it was difficult to make the form truly round.
Nevertheless, I did use the form for a number of years, dispite its
somewhat distorted shape.

John