From: escargo@sbcglobal.net
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 18:54:29 EET
"Friendly plastic" granules can be heated in hot water and formed into
shapes, much like wax or clay, only it is a rigid "plastic" material when
cool. Warm environments are NOT "friendly"!
Another interesting material is poly-caprolactone. When heated it becomes
taffy-like and can be stretched and formed. What I played with was clear. I
was told it was a bit expensive.
GLYN
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi] On Behalf
Of Bathsheba Grossman
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 8:44 PM
To: rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi
Subject: Re: Off topic material search
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Doug Groh wrote:
> Why do you call it Friendly?
Because that's its name: Friendly Plastic (tm).
> What else is it used for?
It used to be available as a crafts material, but I haven't seen any
for a while...yup, Google reveals that it's still out there.
-Sheba
-- Bathsheba Grossman phone (831)429-8224, fax (831)460-1242 Sculpting geometry bathsheba.com Solidscape prototyping protoshape.com
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