necessity is the mother of invention and all that.
I need a 6 inch length of 20mm dia plastic and cant find a local supplier that I can get to in lunch breaks.
I was looking at the stack of coca cola PET bottles I've collected and wondered what tricks there were to melting this down to a rod of machinable plastic. the properties of the neck plastic seem ok.
are there techniques that work well enough in the workshop?
what are the pitfalls to remelting something like PET? does the remelt have the usual strength properties once it has cooled?
(the gingery injection moulding thread showed some knowledgeable guys around)
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