> Some plastics, such as acrylic and polycarbonate will burn in air > before reaching melting temperature. I don't know if they can be > welded with hot air, but rather nitrogen might be needed. > Nitrogen gas welding is not practical the hobbyist so I would > stay with PVC. You can try hot air welding on some scrap PP to > get familiar with, but I don't know how difficult PP is to work > with. It took me many number of hours of practicing on scrap > pieces before I could weld up tank. > > > Thanks for all the tips, i will try again more seriously with the round nozzle. The very absurd thing is that i should have learned plastic welding in the school i was. for some very stupid, and very unknown to me, reason they cancelled the plastic course in my year. There was so much stupid things we were made to waste time with and they did not think that is important for electrical engineers (No idea how they got that impression). I did learn metal welding there, which is kind of funny as it is just as likely to be needed as plastic welding, i do not say the metal welding was one of the useless things, but there WERE really useless things... I really regret i didn't learn it then... (Wasting school material is always better when learning things, and instructions are not bad..) So, i have to figure it out on my own now i think. Thanks for the hints, i will ask again if problems occur.. ST
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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Welding PVC - OT
2004-03-15 by Stefan Trethan
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