>>Another source...with a twist:
>> http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=1&p=50390&cat=2,50560
>
> Sounds almost like the plastic used in soft drink or milk 
> bottles. Most of
> those will go reasonably soft if filled with hot water.

Quite different, alas.
While such plastics do go soft they are far less able to be 
handled well at these temperatures. They MAY be able to be 
processed in a similar way at closer to 200 C.

PET (Polyethyleneterephthalate) (used in softdrink bottles) 
is a very nice engineering plastic.
Also hides under the name (surprise!) Dacron.
Also POSSIBLY Arnite, Hostaphan, Impet, Melinar, Melinex, 
Rynite, Terylene, Trevira according to

        http://www.goodfellow.com/csp/active/STATIC/E/Polyethylene_terephthalate.HTML


BUT as they also say it is called Mylar, which it isn't, and 
fail to distinguish it from Polyester (which it is related 
to), the page is suspect.

Wikipedia has copied their error

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate

Dupont, needless to say, don't make the same mistake

        Russell



 

-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist