02-19-2011, 07:16 PM
Gary ...
I always enjoy watching the amazing successes that invariably follow your "first attempts" at a new technique! I do have one suggestion though, that I think might be helpful.
The idea of heating the styrene to depress the drain areas is a very good one, but I believe that using a candle to heat the styrene to "the point of sag" is both literally and figuratively playing with fire! 8-)
I think a better, more controllable method of attaining "sag" would be to use a heat gun. The potential for igniting the parking lot and involving the local fire-fighting LPB’s would be greatly reduced, you wouldn't have to worry about burning yourself with molten wax while paying more attention to the underside of the sheet of styrene and the heat would be much easier to direct at a particular spot.
I always enjoy watching the amazing successes that invariably follow your "first attempts" at a new technique! I do have one suggestion though, that I think might be helpful.
The idea of heating the styrene to depress the drain areas is a very good one, but I believe that using a candle to heat the styrene to "the point of sag" is both literally and figuratively playing with fire! 8-)
I think a better, more controllable method of attaining "sag" would be to use a heat gun. The potential for igniting the parking lot and involving the local fire-fighting LPB’s would be greatly reduced, you wouldn't have to worry about burning yourself with molten wax while paying more attention to the underside of the sheet of styrene and the heat would be much easier to direct at a particular spot.
Just a thought.
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln