| I need better packaging [message #40950] Fri, 30 December 2011 18:24 UTC |
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I'm have a real problem with my FUD prints being damaged in transit by the stiff zip-lock bags. FUD is soft when I receive it, I assume due to the remaining solvent from the wax removal process. This allows the bags to deform the prints while in transit. Then it quickly becomes brittle, often breaking when I try to strong-arm the prints back into shape. Can this process be improved?
Earl Grey, hot.
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| Re: I need better packaging [message #40952 is a reply to message #40950 ] Fri, 30 December 2011 18:35 UTC |
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Don't strongarm the prints. The material soften in hot water, sometimes it will go back to it's original shape by itself and sometimes it needs holding in place as it cools.
Bill Bedford
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| Re: I need better packaging [message #40955 is a reply to message #40952 ] Fri, 30 December 2011 19:09 UTC |
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It doesn't seem reasonable for me to ask my customers to put their items in hot water with the hopes that they return to shape.
Earl Grey, hot.
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| Re: I need better packaging [message #40998 is a reply to message #40950 ] Sat, 31 December 2011 18:35 UTC |
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Reshaping stuff isn't really that new. I know it has long been common for resin products. I expect to have minor warping of thin parts, and the process of reforming it is pretty straight forward. I know I have never put together a resin train car kit (or tank, plane, boat, figure...) that did not have at least one warped part that needed heating and straightening.
Brittleness isn't something that I have experienced, at least not from thicker parts. Exceptionally fine details (0.3 mm diameter wires for example) are definitely delicate - but no more so than any other plastic of similar size.
[Updated on: Sat, 31 December 2011 18:39 UTC]
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