I hadn't heard of environmental stress cracking as a term, but have definitely seen it in the wild before, and just lacked a word for it. That's cool that it can be used to help with cutting down polycarbonate stock so easily! Have you any idea how much using this brief exposure affects it's strength long-term after the isopropyl alcohol evaporates?
After the solvent has vaporized, one component of the ESC is no more there. However, there will definitely be very small cracks all over the place. Wkat is their impact on strength? I have no idea.
@@FinnoUgricMachining You've done well minimizing the further stresses on the polycarbonate, so it'll likely outlive us both at this point. I'd never thought to use loctite as a gasket material either. At this point I'm not sure if I'm here for your intros with Lumi or the deep well of good ideas you've just got as your obvious best methods. You do the term "greybeard" proud for sure!
very good job Finno Ugric
Nice Work Finno 👌
Thanks for sharing your shop time. Does your space pony have a name?
Indeed, it has. Her name is Lumi which is a Finnish substantive for snow.
I hadn't heard of environmental stress cracking as a term, but have definitely seen it in the wild before, and just lacked a word for it. That's cool that it can be used to help with cutting down polycarbonate stock so easily! Have you any idea how much using this brief exposure affects it's strength long-term after the isopropyl alcohol evaporates?
After the solvent has vaporized, one component of the ESC is no more there. However, there will definitely be very small cracks all over the place. Wkat is their impact on strength? I have no idea.
@@FinnoUgricMachining You've done well minimizing the further stresses on the polycarbonate, so it'll likely outlive us both at this point. I'd never thought to use loctite as a gasket material either. At this point I'm not sure if I'm here for your intros with Lumi or the deep well of good ideas you've just got as your obvious best methods. You do the term "greybeard" proud for sure!