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Date: 12/14/2011 Views: 470 Owner: jonny5

Stretchin' Plastic?

Date: 09/04/2007 Owner: Joel Tracy Size: 16 items
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At this point, I'm still not sure how much stretch I'm getting. Considerably more at 350 than 300, though, so I decided to try something else.

Date: 09/04/2007 Owner: Joel Tracy Views: 859
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I didn't want to waste any more plastic than I had to, so I went with thin strips, and tried for a more dramatic stretch.

Date: 09/04/2007 Owner: Joel Tracy Views: 919
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Turned the heat back to 300 to look for differences. You can see a very slight sag on the far right. The wire had made very minor marks on the bigger pieces at 350.

Date: 09/04/2007 Owner: Joel Tracy Views: 796
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Here's what I got.

Date: 09/04/2007 Owner: Joel Tracy Views: 702
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It's very faint, but you can make out how the marks at the lip of the bottle are apparent in the stretched plastic.

Date: 09/04/2007 Owner: Joel Tracy Views: 744
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Uncut and rough cut pieces.

Date: 09/04/2007 Owner: Joel Tracy Views: 735
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Still don't think we know enough from what I tried. You CAN stretch it with a toaster oven. I would need a different form, and you can't go very big. I could've gone 100 degrees hotter. For this job, I'll probably pull out the gun for corections.

Date: 09/04/2007 Owner: Joel Tracy Views: 1042
   
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