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Day: October 8, 2011

  • Thing-O-Matic: Delamination

    ABS plastic shrinks as it cools and large objects with thin sections tend to delaminate, as seen in the Barbie Pistol and a few other objects. The box for the GPS+voice interface is four threads thick and 35 mm tall, which provided enough energy to rip the side apart:

    Box wall delamination
    Box wall delamination

    Solvent glue and a clamp shoved it back together again:

    Clamping delamination
    Clamping delamination

    This one was extruded at 190 °C, which works fine for small objects and isn’t quite enough to fuse something like this. I’ll crank it up to 210 °C for the next iteration to see if that improves the result.