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June 30th, 2007

Home built heater for plastic folding

The results from using the home-built plastic bending heater
Here is a home-built heating strip that allowed the creation of bent acrylic panels for a custom panel in a computer.
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June 29th, 2007

Make your own plastic action figures

A home-made action figure created with Sculpey polymer clay
How to make your own custom action figures using Sculpey III polymer clay.
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June 23rd, 2007

Make custom tools with Friendly Plastic / Shapelock

How to make custom tools with Friendly Plastic
Here’s a good how-to showing how you can use the low temperature plastics called Shapelock or Friendly Plastic to make custom tools.
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June 18th, 2007

PlasticFanatics.com is going live!

The PlasticFanatics logo: hobbyists working together to share knowledge of plastics
Welcome to the humble beginnings of PlasticFanatics.com! This site will help bring the complex world of plastics to hobbyists so that everyone can enjoy the functionality, durability, and other benefits of working with plastic.

Plastics are amazing things. You can use them to mold containers, doll’s heads, nosecones for rockets, or even make custom tools. Normally, though, the world of plastics has been constrained to companies with big workspaces for big machines and even deeper pockets. With recent innovations in low-temperature plastics as well as the creativity boost provided by the Internet, plastics are now becoming useful for the “little guy” working on his or her hobbies in their garage or basement.

Eventually, I hope that everyone will join the forums (once I set them up completely) where I plan to let people share their projects, tips, techniques, and knowledge about working with hobby plastics. Be sure to keep coming-back and if you use RSS, add our feed to your reader!

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