Unless your application is critical, cheap liquid paint stripper from the hardware store (not the gel, paste, or color-changing varieties) is a fine substitute for commercial acrylic solvent cement. Comparing...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday September 26th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, Science, Tools | No Comments
My first attempt at injection molding with PETE plastic (Mountain Dew bottles). The molded part is the shape of a fishing lure (crankbait). This type of fishing lure needs to...
Posted by John Baichtal | Sunday September 25th, 2011 12:54 PM
Categories: General | 4 Comments
It was a pleasure to present the Makey awards on the special Make: Live show at World Maker Faire NY 2011. There I met Tom Simpkins, accepting the award for...
Posted by Becky Stern | Friday September 23rd, 2011 3:45 PM
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This is a piece of free-burning ABS tubing showing characteristic flame color and smoke. The burn test, as it’s known, correlates a plastic sample’s composition with a set of observable...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday September 22nd, 2011 1:30 PM
Categories: Science | 4 Comments
We've covered the water rockets of George Katz and Air Command Water Rockets before. Now comes this impressive video of another of his two-stage rockets with cluster motors achieving altitudes...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday September 21st, 2011 9:30 PM
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As part of our Plastics theme, we've uploaded Charles Platt's excellent ABS Plastic Fantastic Desk Set article from MAKE Volume 10. By the time you're done, you'll have three handsome,...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday September 21st, 2011 4:00 PM
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In honor of Plastics month here on MAKE, I'm excited to chime in with some of my recent Zero to Maker exploits into the world of silicone. For the non-maker...
Posted by David Lang | Tuesday September 20th, 2011 2:00 PM
If you've ever tried to build a box from clear acrylic, you know how hard it can be to get good-looking joints between the panels. The folks at TAP Plastics...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday September 20th, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Craft, Tools | 20 Comments
Posted by Michael Colombo | Monday September 19th, 2011 12:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Energy | No Comments
This is an easy and fairly well-known trick, especially since Mark blogged the work of Dominic Wilcox on Boing Boing back in 2004. The methods circulating on the web generally...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday September 16th, 2011 9:04 AM
Categories: Craft, Fun & Games, Home | 6 Comments
We have hundreds of posts in the archives with the keyword “plastic” in the title, but many of them are about particular objects made from plastic, rather than general methods...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday September 15th, 2011 1:30 PM
Categories: Craft, Science, Tools | 3 Comments
Cool vid from our pals at TAP Plastics showing how to build a strip heater, which is commonly referred to as a "plastic bender," but really doesn't do any bending...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday September 14th, 2011 1:10 PM
Categories: Tools | 5 Comments
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