I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.
Lately I’ve been getting interested in heat-welding plastics, and so far some of the best practical, hands-on advice I’ve found within the tubes comes from this black-and-white Seelye Model 63 Plastic Welder manual posted over at amphibious / all-terrain vehicle enthusiast site 6×6 World.
It’s posted as low-to-middling resolution JPGs, so the quality isn’t great, but it’s definitely readable/usable.
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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.
Dan Strohl of custom car site Hemmings.com wrote a great piece on solvent-welding plastics: basically gluing together broken pieces of plastic with a solvent chosen to work best with that type of plastic. Step one is identifying the plastic. There’s all sorts of plastics out there, and they all respond…
Brian writes - "I'm looking for a good simple tutorial on welding. My local Northern Tool has a cheap Schumacher 70 amp welder for $99, and I figured I'd pick up that, a mask and some rods, and teach myself how to weld (or re-learn, since I allegedly learned how…
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