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Location: Eastern Ontario | Nice work |
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Location: Madison, WI | MTD
That is beautiful work......well done!
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| kodiak - 10/9/2012 11:09 AM
no i used the stuff that "welds" the plastic together you just clamp it and use the metal syringe applicator and it welds it too a hard quickly set up clear seam.
Kodiak: Do you know the name of the stuff you used?
For everyone else: What did you use to adhere, melt, weld, etc. the acrylic to itself at the corners? |
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Location: Okoboji | catchandrelease - 10/13/2012 8:38 PM
kodiak - 10/9/2012 11:09 AM
no i used the stuff that "welds" the plastic together you just clamp it and use the metal syringe applicator and it welds it too a hard quickly set up clear seam.
Kodiak: Do you know the name of the stuff you used?
For everyone else: What did you use to adhere, melt, weld, etc. the acrylic to itself at the corners?
i will get that for you. |
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| kodiak - 10/16/2012 8:41 AM catchandrelease - 10/13/2012 8:38 PM kodiak - 10/9/2012 11:09 AM no i used the stuff that "welds" the plastic together you just clamp it and use the metal syringe applicator and it welds it too a hard quickly set up clear seam. Kodiak: Do you know the name of the stuff you used? For everyone else: What did you use to adhere, melt, weld, etc. the acrylic to itself at the corners? i will get that for you. the chemical you use to bond or "weld" plastic depends on the type of plasic. i.e. for polycarbonate,acrylic, and styrene its best to use mek. but mek will not work for polypropalene and polyethelyne however other solvents will. it just depends on the chemical makeup of the plastic. btw martintd nice work on that below deck box! thats quite slick. |
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| I used a product called "Weld on 4". However for some reason it didnt seem to work very well on polycarbonate, but worked extremely well on just regular acrylic. There are some good videos on youtube. Biggest thing I found is to have very clean edges...sanded and polished with a map torch. |
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| Nice work by all you guys.
I'm beating a dead horse here on the cost, but unless I'm missing something building your own will be pretty expensive, with little savings over the already available pre-made boxes like this.
Where are you guys getting your materials? |
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Location: Minnesota | you guys did some nice work..i dont have the time so i bought one built by just encase love this deck box
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Location: NorthCentral WI | Funny story, UPS delivered a BIG angle iron frame box that was covered in Makrolon to my work. The thing is, NO ONE ordered it. This box sat around for over a year unclaimed, then we wanted to get rid of it so I said I'd take it. I had to remove all of the panels from the frame but then I had a lot of material to work with. Free. Menards or the like carry some material but not sure exactly what and I know it's expensive.
The JustEncase boxes are obviously nice and more professional looking. If I had a nicer, newer boat I may look at getting a couple of them. But c'mon man, I paid $1200 for my boat 5 years ago. You have more than that in JustEncase boxes! Just saying. |
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| I manage stock at a bus window manufacturing company....needless to say I can get my hands on alot of Poly carb, and plexi. |
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Location: Minnesota | your right there not cheap.i would be a rich man if i could give up hunting and fishing bought a new boat this year. 2011 suv was not big enuff to pull it. bought a new truck. bought new fish finders spent more on them then i should have im just keeping this country form going in debt any further just this year .as you can tell im not married LOL |
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