Re: Secondary form ideas

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Original poster: "Brian by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ka1bbg-at-webryders-dot-net>

Hi, what they didnt tell you is that after welding they put it in a heated
form and made it round by exerting pressure to the id and od, then cooling
it slowly.  cul brian f.
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Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Secondary form ideas


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> In a message dated 9/7/02 1:23:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
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> >
> > 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
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> 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
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