Friends, my name is Paul! I am the author of the channel Performer of ideas. On this channel, I present everything I've done with my hands. Creative ideas, useful tips! #DIY #Homemade #Craft
A thought from an hvac/refrigeration tech. Place plastic sheet section in a freezer and then it could shatter easier on top of a rag with a hammer for particle creation.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jfT9pp2BwIQ.html&pp=ygUWbWV0YWwgcHVsdmVyaXplciBzaHJlZA%3D%3D It'll do plastic, too. Build you own mini version in regular steel and it will crush your material into dust and chips easily, and cheaply, too.
No need if you use a shallow tray (metal or polythene). The plastic will dissolve from a sheet. Just leave it submerged overnight and give it a good mix in the morning. Just ensure it's covered over to prevent all the solvent evaporating. Worked for me.
This is what I love RU-vid for!! I have been able to get through so many financial hurdles using RU-vid to DIY things of all sorts. God bless everyone for using the platform to share your skills and gifts with the world! This video has inspired me to do even more than I do now! Thanks again for sharing!
I couldn't agree more! I am a South African State Pensioner. I have learned to make lots of stuff on RU-vid that has saved me a lot of money. A few weeks back I paid almost R400 for a tin of waterproof varnish. Since then I have seen two ideas on RU-vid that might have saved me that money! Since 1986 I have been making milktarts from a recipe I got from a book and have got over a lot of financial hurdles with just that one recipe. But first you need Imagination. Einstein himself said 'Imagination is more important than Knowledge' and he was right because once you have Imagined the thing the knowledge WILL come to you. Somehow.
Those are very humbling statements from both of you friends (GodisGoodAlways and Susan Collins) 😍🥰 I often say . . . there is a BIG difference between having knowledge or rather more like "awareness" (usually from school and education) versus the PRACTICAL things that YOUUUU CAN do RIGHT NOW or TODAY with that knowledge or "awareness". The **YOUUU** part is extremely critical becuz a degree in Nuclear physics (No matter how deep the knowledge) might Not result in YOUUUU being able to (or being ALLOWED to) do much with it in your SHORT remaining LIFETIME as a nuclear engineer with that knowledge, you are often STRICTLY CONSTRAINED to only PARTICIPATE in what the world of nuclear science HAS BEEN doing since 1950 🤨🙄. A degree in medicine also usually does Not result in ANY doctor coming up with a "cure" for cancer, diabetes, high blood or heart disease, Not even a cure for "flu" after 350 years of modern medicine 🙄. What we see shared in these videos however, is information and knowledge that CAN READILY and INCLUSIVELY CHANGE the RIGHT NOW situation (often challenging, desperate or even "hopeless" situation) of MANY people's lives (and INCLUSIVELY so) . . . from India to Peru, Romania to Chile, or even Haiti to Africa 🥰🥰😍😍.
Most people who have a 3d printer will use acetone for cleanup and for better adhesion on the hotbed. You take scrap PLA plastic and melt it in the acetone and store it in an old rubbing alcohol container then brush it on as needed, I have one that is black and one that is white being those are the two most used colors. Thanks for the video, I had no idea how strong the plastic is when used this way.
Interesting! Have you got a weight ration of PLA to acetone? Also, can the acetone be increased to make it very thin? I'm looking for a preservative for a wood bridge and wood like something that with soak into the log beams to waterproof them so they last. (Store bought stains/preservatives have been garbage and not durable at all!) Thanks very much!
Fun trick. Drop Styrofoam in acetone and it turns into this smooth plastic sludge. However, As the acetone evaporates, the consistency gets more putty like. Eventually, it hardens into solid polystyrene. I have used it to plug holes in concrete before.
Liquid styro (gasoline as solvent , or acetone will do) is also called napalm...dip a stick in, light it, and it becomes a match that don't go out on a windy day or a storm 😁 Use with caution though.
And it's useful almost instantly too if you don't overdo the acetone (or mineral turps, which also works but to a lesser extent). Adding the acetone to the styrene foam helps here, or adding styrene to a small jar of your chosen thinner until it doesn't dissolve any more. I've used it in numerous applications but the most impressive was arguably replacing a nut and lock on a bicycle's crank.
Well I'm in my 70's and have known this since I was about 13!! 🤔😲😲🙄... Polystyrene foam in petrol or acetone makes polystyrene cement. Acetone has always been the goto adhesive solvent for perspex if the jointed edge is smoothed dead flat and the acetone painted onto the edge carefully as well as onto the surface to be joined, extremely strong and invisible joints can be made!👍👍👍 Surprised this is news to an old codger! 🤔
I had to come back and thank you for this. The use for making a file handle has saved many old screwdrivers I have - used to repair broken ones and missing ones. Thanks!! These old Stanley screwdrivers are great, but the factory plastics have gotten brittle over the decades they have been used.
This is old school stuff. Back in the 70's working as a plastic letter fabricator we mixed acrylic chips and chloroform (trichloromethane) make a thick glue to reinforce a joint made with just chloroform. It was also used to bond sheets of acrylic together to make thicker sheets.
The problem is that old shool stuff die along with the older people and not passed forward mostly because the new generations don't keep up with old good tricks till they are forgotten or even worse, lost.
I'm tying to fix a broken corner on an acrylic sculpture I have from the 60s. It's clear acrylic and the chipped corner that needs to be remolded is about a cubic inch in size. As someone who has worked with repairing acrylic, do you have any tips?
I believe is plain acrylic. Let me know if you try it with polycarbonate. I'd be interested to know if it works. A quick search revealed that 646 is some form of thinner sold in East Europe/Russia composed of acetone - 7%, ethyl "cellosolve" (??) - 8%, ethyl alcohol - 10%, butyl acetate - 10%, butanol - 15%, toluene - 50%.
Speaking of 3D printing, I've done this for years with ABS filament to make goop for better bed adhesion. Same concept here. If you have lego bricks laying around, they are made of ABS as can be used for the purpose in the video. Just put them in a non-plastic container with the acetone, wait for them to dissolve, and you're good to go with multicolored goop (or liquid plastic).
SUPER résultat, j'ai fait beaucoup de bricolage et toujour a chercher et imaginer des solutions, mais là je suis IMPRESSIONNÉ, MERCI pour cette solution très efficace que je ne connaissait pas 👏👏👏
@@zaneaguilar5274 Sure! I've already got two big jars to make the aceonte mixture in. The idea is to make hard plastic embossing folders out of 3-D images I carved into a sheet of lino. I am experimenting with melting plastic but this method seems so much better. I may combine chemical and heat metling because I have to make the moulds with silane modified polymer. My experiment will eventually be most like the wonderful hard handle you made for the screwdriver. The glue was also amazing. II've got more than one jar because I want to try with all different types of plastic or acetate. Look I actually knew about this because I once tried to clean a sheet of acetate in a bath of acetone only to have it melt. almost completely That it would succeed so well as you showed I had no idea. So my own dumb luck.resulted in me looking for your film. I was flabergasted!
Great ideas, any chance this cud be used to make into windows for model cars? Is there not a "liner" eg parchment to protect it from adhering onto wood shape instead of vacuum forming or silicone mold?
Just a couple hours depending on how much acetone is used. The plastic hardens due to the acetone evaporating. But, you can turn it back liquid by putting more acetone in.
This is so inspiring, and I'm dying to try it, but I have questions. Re the ratio pf plastic:acetone, is there a formula- weight:volume perhaps- that'll produce the consistency of that shown in the vid, or does one simply guesstimate? Also, can more plastic or acetone be added after the fact to thicken or thin the original mix?
You can just add chunks of styrofoam to a few ounces of acetone until you get the consistency you want and, yes, you can add acetone or styrofoam as you go to get it just right. I'm talking about styrofoam and acetone because it's the only kind of plastic I have experience dissolving this way. It's amazing how much disappears into the acetone, btw.
I'm sure that the video shows acrylic (Plexiglass). Acetone will not dissolve polycarbonate (Lexan). However, acetone will dissolve acrylic slowly, methylene chloride will dissolve it faster, toluene will dissolve it even faster. But for the best results use chloroform. Also, chloroform makes the best adhesive for acrylic. With a little bit of practice (and a hypodermic syringe) you can make completely invisible welds in acrylic.
i was reading the instructions for Allumilite's Amazing Clear Cast Plus which says "Acts like an adhesive and will try to bond to most surfaces". i wonder if their expensive product is basically just this stuff
Realmente no es costoso ya que fue utilizado un plástico duro quebrado como darnos a entender que cualquier plástico duro desechable puede ser reutilizado.
if the acrylic dissolves anyway, except for the video to show dissolving time, is there need to cut the pieces so small? Can you add bigger pieces and more acetone as you go along? What other plastics does this work upon?
You could probably make something with water bottles or clear pastry packaging ,like moulded art work ,beads or relief work. You could probably add acrylic paint or acrylic nail polish.
if acetone can melt hard plastic sheeting. can it melt plastic caps from milk cartons? i don't really have plastic acrylic sheeting. i want something that can melt normal plastic lying around the house. It's so useful these videos because buying glue is expensive
i think you're talking about polypropylene plastic, they make shampoo bottles, bottle caps, cutting boards for kitchen, and many other stuff, from what i know that plastic doesn't melt with acetone. But i've seen people melting it in microwaves, and then pressing it into forms, there is a video with some guys wich made roof panels from this kind of plastic.
Bottlecaps are HDPE. They will melt in a sandwich press between two layers of baking paper. You can then put the melted plastic into a mould. Using glue on it or using it as a glue won't work.
@@nessunodorme3888 No, he's using Acetone. He translated it in the video. Methylene chloride is nasty stuff. Overexposure to fumes can cause death. And it's said to be cancer causing as well. They do use it in production. But the conditions are controlled in the manufacturing process.
@@randomamerican471 Only one of his two solvents is acetone. I since found out the other one is a mixture of solvents described in another post here. Methylene chloride is not that dangerous unless you habitually huff it but there are probably other solvents you could try if you're nervous about using it. Maybe ethyl acetate? Xylene or Toluol?
@@nessunodorme3888 Right, the other was 646. It didn't dissolve the Acrylic. I'll use Acetone as it seems to work well. People using paint strippers containing Methylene Chloride in bathrooms have died. Not sure about the cancer element. I doubt it would be a problem for this if care were used. Acetone doesn't bother me. I wouldn't bathe in it, hehe. But it looks to work fine for this. I'm wondering if I could impregnate wood for knife scales with this stuff.
@@randomamerican471 I think there's an assumption any chlorinated solvent is potentially carcinogenic based on carbon tetrachloride's link and I keep seeing speculative warnings about chloroform, too, and now, like you about, dichloromethane. But I also saw the same warning about acetone somewhere today while looking this stuff up. I dunno where you live but in the US, anything to do with chemicals or chemistry is widely perceived as hazardous. If it doesn't cause cancer or make your kids grow antlers, then it's explosive or else you're making drugs! It's pretty easy to get spooked but, in the end, I agree with you: as long as you don't pass out with your nose in a tube of model glue for 45 minutes (like a friend of mine once did) or bathe in it, just use some care and you should be fine. Btw,i believe that DCM in a closed bathroom can kill you. I once had a close call when a half gallon of chloroform broke in a storage locker I was working in. But this post is long enough, sorry. One last thing: packing peanuts or the little beads that fill bean bag chairs are excellent sources of easy to dissolve in acetone polystyrene -- even at room temperature. What are knife scales?
Gracias por compartir esta idea genial, soy de Argentina y la economía esta por las nubes, yo fabrico cuchillos y como algunos sabrán el cabo de madera se pega de muchas maneras y se usa pegamento Epoxi y es muy caro, así que voy a poner en practica este pegamento ya que demuestra que es muy fuerte para unir piezas!!!! (el tipo de plástico que usa en el vídeo es acrílico?) es mi única duda, gracias!!!!
Hello Paul, new sub here. I'm Dan a jack of all trades and Master of some from Florida. So in this video you broke up acrylic and combined it with just aceatone and a little time to make the adhesive correct ( my question mark key is next to be fixed ... dammit and my close parentheses too.
INDICAR EL NOMBRE COMPLETO DE LA SUSTANCIA (En este caso el solvente 646), y no solamente su identificacion como nombre comercial que en otro lugar no se pueda conseguri.
This is awesome, explains some things I’ve found that my grandpa had. Now I have a challenge for you (or anyone who knows): What can I make that would work well in a mold with fine details, be able to be fairly flexible until it’s adhered to a rounded or corner edge of furniture, then be strong enough to hold the details/bumps etc for a long time? There’s’ the flexible wood appliqués but it’s not affordable.. Accept my challenge sir?? 😂
i put acetone on some plastics like styrofoam and other tupperwear plastic but it did not do anything. I was hoping to get it to work , do you have any thoughts why it wont work with mine? thank you
Si el plástico lo serramos con una sierra eléctrica circular la viruta resultante es ideal para derretir. Lo veo practico para hacer piezas mas que como adhesivo. Pero gran idea, felicitaciones.
Who sits strings and thinks, "hmmm 🤔 I have an idea. Let me try it."? Who does that? A gosh darn genius, that's who! I love overdriving intelligent people who think outside of the box. 😁
I have a big jar with a whole mix of plastics submerged in Acetone , we shall see what does and doesn't melt and what we end up with , should be interesting , lol .
@@juanparrajr Mostly it was plastics from store bought food containers , ice cream bucket, plant container , cookie container , bubble wrap , some foam , stuff like that , none melted after 5 days , the only plastic that melted was from a hoover vacuum cleaner that i scraped , the hose connector made of softer plastic and that turned to goo not liquid.
love this stuff. so far I've been trying to get it to cure without bubbles. if possible it could be poured into 3d moulds for casting clear strong parts
To get it to cure without bubbles, you probably need to either put it into a pressure pot or a vacuum chamber and leave it for days until it's fully cured.
Buenos días quiero saber el nombre del líquido que pusiste si en la Argentina lo consigo con ese nombre y que plástico usar cualquier plástico o alguno en especial te agradezco mucho por la información que me des la necesito mucho
That should work really good, theres thing you can do to work around shrinkage, but now you know how to build things, its kinda dangerous knowledge for anyone!!! =-)
