Plastics Equipment WISH LIST

Emphasis on equipment that is compact and/or portable/rollable\

 The short list:
      Acrylic Bending Table, signage: "Caution Filament Can Be Hot Even If Not Glowing Red."
      Line heating element for bending plastics
      2 speed Band Saw from Photomancer
          Maybe 5 hours total of run time, offered to donate, can have casters put on it.
         "Nobody wants plastics gumming up their blades and plastics folks would prefer work areas free of metal chips".
      Power outlet for 3-phase, 230V for:  Vacuformer, Vacuum Food dessicator
      Desktop injection molding

Vacuum pump/chamber for degassing resins & during casting
Rotomolder (currently on loan)
Small scroll saw
Hot Wire Cutter
Class on polymer science
Rotocaster
Plastic recycling
Extrusion
Frame for rotocasting\

We may want to also create a SIG that specializes in the cross-committee uses of multiple pieces of equipment. Examples of such would be:\

1. Using CNC router to create bucks for vacuformer\
2. Using lasercutters to create pepakura/papercraft patterns to be resin coated for 3d forms\

Discuss with Reynold’s Advanced Materials (about a block away) from us (Smooth-On distributor), “get some cross pollination between their classes and our membership”. It could potentially open a whole new world of potential classes/members.\