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Connecting materials with plastic

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Emile Corre

emilecorre

Connecting materials with plastic

02/03/2017 at 17:04

Salut,

This week I made some crafty joints with wood and plastic, The more attention you put into the plastic the more value a material gets.

Importent that you can still take the two material apart so the cycle can continue for ever.

I will make some more little experiments in this channel.

Ciao

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siemenc

dedicated

02/03/2017 at 19:12

Yes, Nice! I love the ones with the extruder! Good you point out they should still be able to take apart afterwards. Hard part is to make the joint still strong enough, with that in mind.

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emilecorre

starter

20/03/2017 at 00:50

@siemenc True the difficult part of that is to get it, but keep it strong.

I found a solution, wrap the material you want to connect in baking paper (at least 5 layers) and use the extrusion machine to put the plastic around the joint. I used hdpe and heated the machine a little higher than normal (settings 255 C front 240 C middle) so it melted well together.
After when it cooled down you can take out your material and build with it:)

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mattia-io

warrior

21/03/2017 at 23:22

Good work my man!
Looks fresh..bit fragile but cool.

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fleety-bali

starter

03/01/2018 at 03:57

This is a good direction to play in!
Keep on playing and inspiring bro, I love the dove tail joint 🙂

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emilecorre

starter

04/01/2018 at 22:26

@fleety-bali Cool thnx;) How woud you make the connecting points 90 degrees?

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blackcatkuro

starter

04/01/2018 at 23:19

wow ! good inspiration. plastics and woods are friend now. ha ha.
so you might also knew that most materials are actually friends. here i got a picture of figurine i’ve created out of junk materials like, piece of woods, plastics, glass, bottle caps, dead bulbs, electronics junk, and fabrics. nice to meet you 🙂

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fleety-bali

starter

05/01/2018 at 01:50

I’m one of those people that will have to play first, understand later.

We are doing a community build day of our extruder tomorrow.
I might take some sticks and see if any of the people that attend can figure out a clever method! Everyone likes a challenge 🙂