Plastic Fusing Tutorial

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  • @KonaLynnSankeyisakaLOLCat
    @KonaLynnSankeyisakaLOLCat 9 років тому +41

    You mentioned that people had asked you about the safety of heating/melting the plastic bags. I recently found a guide that you can use and share with your viewers:
    PLASTIC RECYCLING GUIDE - Safety Reminders
    1 (PTE) - Danger! Toxic. Avoid Burning
    2 (HDPE) - Safe. *Very sturdy but doesn't really melt.*
    3 (PVC) - DANGER! Very Toxic. Do not burn.
    4 (LDPE) - Safe. *More flexible, but catches on fire.*
    5 (PP) - Safe. Caution: Doesn't really melt but gets Hot fast.
    6 (PS) - Danger! This is styrofoam.
    7 (OTHER) - Safe only if it's PLA
    {Guide compiled by Anasha}

  • @Quinta83
    @Quinta83 11 років тому +10

    I'm curious if I could melt the plastic bags onto fabric??? Maybe that's how the inventors of cloth diapers did it? I want to make my own PUL fabric to make cloth diaper fabric.

    • @lynns755
      @lynns755 4 роки тому +1

      Ive been trying to find out the same

  • @grizwoldstad9956
    @grizwoldstad9956 10 років тому +6

    Have you tried bonding the plastic at the edges with plastic similar plastic squares to achieve larger pieces? I would think that you could separate the layers at the edge (non melted and interweave them then iron that area

    • @detroitdiesel7296
      @detroitdiesel7296 9 років тому +1

      Griz Woldstad Yes it's possible bond to achieve larger pieces. Have you tried fuse two sheets of polyethylene plastic?

    • @yash1152
      @yash1152 4 роки тому

      i was thinking same

  • @tammyhulsey-ferguson8650
    @tammyhulsey-ferguson8650 4 роки тому +2

    You can get larger parchment paper 26" x 18" at a resteraunt supplier. A case cost around $35 and last me for around a decade because I cook with it.

  • @webbyweb6235
    @webbyweb6235 5 років тому +15

    "You should NOT use your wife's iron", sounds like something that you have EXPERIENCE with!!! :) LOL

  • @carlrudd1858
    @carlrudd1858 9 років тому +1

    Fun video, thanks. I'd think that the end uses for this kind of 'fabric' would be quite limited. I mean, patching tents, or tarps? ok... but very few people are going to want to wear clothing made from or patched with this.

    • @StudioJohm
      @StudioJohm 8 років тому +5

      umbrellas, rain coats, backpacks... basically everything that must be water-resistant and stiff

    • @emdashl2
      @emdashl2 6 років тому

      School projects on recycling

  • @bindiberry6280
    @bindiberry6280 2 роки тому

    Just wonder. Can we use the heat of a hot glue gun to fuse just a few dots of plastic bags along edges to extend the size of width and length for recycling bags as a large piece of plastic curtain, privacy screen, and sun shade in the backyard?

  • @merryclicker
    @merryclicker 12 років тому +1

    You can try using toothpaste (the regular white kind) on the iron to get melted plastic off the iron. I've had limited success with it.

  • @christinetempleton7657
    @christinetempleton7657 4 роки тому

    Thank you for the info! Love your video and diy stuff! Going to try it.

  • @digitalfusionpk
    @digitalfusionpk 12 років тому +5

    cut potato in half and rub it on iron while its cold. it cleans the iron but takes a bit time. u have to be patient. then iron can be cleaned from potato residue by clean wet
    cloth

    • @yash1152
      @yash1152 4 роки тому

      you meant for if plastic got stuck onto iron right!!?

  • @SN-sz7kw
    @SN-sz7kw Рік тому

    Thank you for the technical notes. 😊

  • @MsFaan
    @MsFaan 11 місяців тому

    please use a stabilize edit on your video and repost it. interesting content

  • @hectorcalderon3011
    @hectorcalderon3011 3 роки тому

    Turn bags inside out so ink doesn't mess up anything and parchment paper is made for heat

  • @AmericanWoman1
    @AmericanWoman1 8 років тому +3

    I cannot imagine what anyone would want to use this for. Can you please give examples of what they may be?

    • @another3997
      @another3997 6 років тому

      WhatIsThis Is your imagination really that limited that you can't think of any uses for tough plastic sheeting?

    • @antubara
      @antubara 6 років тому

      WhatIsThis I want to make a lunch bag

  • @khaos_priestess4344
    @khaos_priestess4344 11 років тому

    Great tutorial! I am doing a demo for this for one of our MakerSpace meetups soon!

  • @munkeyjump
    @munkeyjump 11 років тому

    Fun, I'm wondering about using this process to mend a torn tarp. What do you think, can I melt bags and woven polyethylene tarp fragments together to repair a torn translucent tarp that is supposed to cover my greenhouse?

    • @Studzuki
      @Studzuki 11 років тому

      Using that on a tarp hole sounds like a great idea. I would maybe think about finding out what platic has the most similar properties to the tarp plastic, especially melting temp. It would be a bugger if your patch melts but the tarp doesn't and you get a weak bond. Id love to see your follow up.

    • @munkeyjump
      @munkeyjump 11 років тому

      Tarps are polyethylene and so are plastic bags, I think melting point is around 130c

    • @NeoHeo
      @NeoHeo 9 років тому

      David West Have you tried this yet? I´m thinking about the same thing or maybe redo the whole tarp with plastic bags

    • @NeoHeo
      @NeoHeo 9 років тому +3

      NeoHeo So I went out and tried to fuse plastic bags to a tarp that had a rip in it. The bags do fuse very well with the tarp and it seems to fix the hole very well. But the tarp will shrink, a lot, so if you are fixing it this way make sure that the patching is small compared to the tarp since it will loose shape. And also make sure that the patching is bigger then the iron you are using or you might melt a new hole in the tarp.

  • @browellr
    @browellr 11 років тому +4

    that would make a mean vapour barrier for a house

  • @callhow
    @callhow 4 роки тому

    I would think making plastic bags into tarps - to protect; grills, mowers, tractors, plants, etc. wouldn't need to be "sewed" if fusing by heat/irons ? Has anybody tried this with success ?

  • @crispi1973
    @crispi1973 7 років тому +3

    Thanks for the information, but I find that spending time, electricity, storage, time to collect the bags, clean them ... etc. It's a lot of work for the poor result, better hand it over to some company that recycles them and saves you bad times.

    • @another3997
      @another3997 6 років тому +3

      crispi1973 Great, then you can buy them back as recycled sheets and re-use them at several times the cost. I applaud recycling, but for small scale, personalised projects, this method seems ideal.

    • @dianemadigan3252
      @dianemadigan3252 5 років тому +3

      Sometimes it’s just fun and creative to do. I crochet totes and sleeping mats with my plastic bags.

  • @TheSilverlady1980
    @TheSilverlady1980 7 років тому +1

    Butcher stores use large brown parchment paper they may tell you supplier or sell roll. Butcher paper.

  • @joannecurrie6833
    @joannecurrie6833 8 років тому +1

    Would you not be better off using linig paper from youre local d i y store

  • @mindlesskittles
    @mindlesskittles 5 років тому +3

    But what do you do with it? I'm not being sarcastic, I just keep seeing these tutorials but no one shows anything they made with it.

    • @norbkorosi2603
      @norbkorosi2603 5 років тому +1

      Well personally I'd make some experimental plastic bags which is why i'm looking at this

    • @scotttovey
      @scotttovey 4 роки тому

      Here's a couple of bag making videos by iJessup.
      ua-cam.com/video/ZvwOL_QOs-I/v-deo.html
      ua-cam.com/video/taHUTL0-Z60/v-deo.html

    • @Paskasauruss
      @Paskasauruss 3 роки тому +1

      I'm doing this with saran wrap for my greenhouse plastic parts

  • @Law19157
    @Law19157 12 років тому

    Excuse me sir, can you make a race car tub with this?......I here Boeing makes their new airplanes with reinforced plastic but I don't know how they do it

  • @TWJfdsa
    @TWJfdsa 2 роки тому

    thanks, reaching for my wifes iron!

  • @danieladamczyk08
    @danieladamczyk08 7 років тому +1

    0:35 is that a China Cymbal lamp?

  • @ibrahimmoghrabi4333
    @ibrahimmoghrabi4333 8 років тому +1

    Thanks to all creative mind. .I inspired from you. .

  • @frankcoize
    @frankcoize 6 років тому

    Hi! What kind of paper do you use to separate plastic of iron? Thank you?

    • @scotttovey
      @scotttovey 4 роки тому

      "What kind of paper do you use to separate plastic of iron?"
      He used parchment paper.

  • @barbaraarnold5793
    @barbaraarnold5793 8 років тому +1

    Thank you, never to late to learn.

  • @missyaniieeph
    @missyaniieeph 10 років тому

    what was the paper like material put above the plastic when u ironed it?

    • @johnelliss1237
      @johnelliss1237 10 років тому

      Parchment paper. You can find it in the baking supplies area of the grocery store.

    • @tulipakiwi8722
      @tulipakiwi8722 7 років тому

      Yanie Del Rosario or u can call it baking paper

  • @zazkapulsk1
    @zazkapulsk1 7 років тому +17

    Your WIFE's iron?
    It's 2017!

    • @josejoaquim7775
      @josejoaquim7775 6 років тому

      Gabriel Wainmann

    • @sixpackbinky
      @sixpackbinky 6 років тому

      Gabriel Wainmann now it`s 2018 and many people still use irons.

    • @MrMemyselfandi415
      @MrMemyselfandi415 6 років тому +1

      TRIGGERED!! Aren't we past this crap? Maybe his "wife" is a Trans women...THEN WHAT? IS it STILL HER Iron? And would it be ok then? Maybe she wanted it and he didn't...because he couldn't care less and lets his clothes pile up. SO WHAT?! Does anyone GIVE A SHIT?!! Yes, men can use irons...but so can women too!...as in...it doesn't matter!! It just so happens that it's HERS!! Sorry you're so leftist in your thinking that you have your head stuck up your ass and think it's against the rules to put ownership of anything remotely gender stereotyped to the that gender. God forbid we say things like...her tampons...his cock. From what I've read those are the next to go too. You people are fuckin crazy...since when has naming an OBJECT that is the possession of your spouse been a bad thing..and why ONLY when it's from the perspective you don't like? If he had said...this is my wife's shotgun...or this is my easy bake oven... would that have been ok? I have no doubt he would have said that SAME thing for a pair of scissors that she used a lot for crafts etc...or ANYTHING that his wife owns or simply uses more than he does. You do know that there are differences between men and women right? And that just because boys generally like to play with cars and girls with dolls doesn't mean they're bad people. Yes there are people who fall outside of those norms...and we love all people...but there you guys claim to be inclusive and at the SAME time exclude people who are different than the different people. You leftists need to die!

    • @MrMemyselfandi415
      @MrMemyselfandi415 6 років тому +1

      you mean...men AND WOMEN use Irons?!! Say it ain't SO!!!

    • @dianemadigan3252
      @dianemadigan3252 5 років тому +1

      NOBODY uses my iron for anything but fabric! Same goes for my fabric scissors.....Just sayin’

  • @richardferomone3974
    @richardferomone3974 6 років тому

    Et vous faites quoi avec ??? Dans le tuto il n y a que la préparation

  • @6969smurfy
    @6969smurfy 12 років тому

    OK Plastic film engineer here... So what are we making from the " un " Fabric?
    I know all your melting point for your LLDPE, LDPE & HDPE. I have several ways you could improve this process.

    • @manjujindal2828
      @manjujindal2828 7 років тому

      plz tell me the melting point of electric water heating pad

    • @douglasfulton7611
      @douglasfulton7611 7 років тому +1

      Dan Murphy how would that be

  • @1stupidfish
    @1stupidfish 8 років тому +1

    can you fuse more layers to make it stiffer.

    • @craftychrystal7913
      @craftychrystal7913 Рік тому

      You can fuse a great many pieces together. Thick enough to make Frames for small projects like toy houses or leaf bag holders. You can make hard jewelry, trinket plates, desk top accessories, like paper holders, pen holders, etc. I took a regular sized bag, ironed it, folded it, ironed it and so on until I had a longer piece that was thick and still pliable enough to shape. Once cool it will hold that shape until dooms day. A custom made picture frame with smaller pictures ironed on around the sides under a clear plastic bag. Wind wirlygigs, drawer liners with partitions. You can saw, drill, sand, contour and so on. When you add the idea of thicker sheets of plastic, you have the equivalent of wood pieces that can be made into anything!! Patience is a HUGE part of this project. Fuse one or two layers on a side at a time and keep going until you have the size and thickness you want. If you want it bent, do all of this in one setting. Then fold it over a form and roll it up in something to hold it there to cool completely. For wide flat sheets, you need to place something wide and flat on it to cool without any buckle or curl. Sorry, i didn't meant to make this so long. i have just had so much fun with the thicker pieces I wanted to share!

  • @suehoerauf1252
    @suehoerauf1252 8 років тому

    /Couldn't get the volumn up

  • @6969smurfy
    @6969smurfy 12 років тому

    I could not find any info. on your site...

  • @vipulandankar
    @vipulandankar 8 років тому

    wht have u used as a paper, white paper, ??

    • @m1957-d8l
      @m1957-d8l 6 років тому

      Vipul Andankar
      That is parchment paper used for baking.

  • @sonalpatel6119
    @sonalpatel6119 5 років тому

    ✖️ Kitchen gust Flor - shopping Drees market - Gust shopping fire Shopping bag
    Kitchen Tow Couple work - Gust hanting Market Bomb
    Baa goodness - madicin - plan Traveling - Gust plan Travaling Hanting / stems / fire food - Tampal Foot

  • @CikisHelyzet
    @CikisHelyzet 5 років тому +4

    So the iron belongs to the wife?? No one told me.. maybe you're from the 1950's 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @AnanyaChattopadhyay09
    @AnanyaChattopadhyay09 4 роки тому

    Thanks a lot

  • @Sophie-jv2nm
    @Sophie-jv2nm 7 років тому +1

    Wife's iron??? Really? :(

    • @FrancineJohnsonMcGee
      @FrancineJohnsonMcGee 7 років тому

      Sophie Julie Holst Knudsen He said he didn't use his wife's iron, but instead bought a cheap $10 iron.

    • @robertlane6140
      @robertlane6140 4 роки тому

      @@FrancineJohnsonMcGee it's 3 years later so maybe and hopefully you realise what Sophie meant by this comment. She is point out the fact that he called their household iron "his wife's iron"
      The iron is everyone's in the house but because it's a cleaning item he calls it his wife's lol.
      It's like saying "I just put my beer in my wife's fridge"... It's just silly because it's everyone's fridge (everyone who lives in that household).
      He could have instead said "I didn't use our household iron as my wife wouldn't be happy if I got plastic on it".

  • @FutureInventions
    @FutureInventions 14 років тому

    cool

  • @МироѕлабЈобанобиц
    @МироѕлабЈобанобиц 8 років тому

    f

  • @wingwing9984
    @wingwing9984 6 років тому +1

    interesting techmique. agree it can have lots of aplications.
    however, I see you're using plenty of barely used bags. All in one style/source.
    Don't you think it would be much more sensible to bring own reusable bag to grocery or supermarket than collecting plastic bags? You pretend to recycle but actually you are creating rubbish and promoting people to create rubbish too!

  • @urflofit2010
    @urflofit2010 8 років тому +1

    This is not fabric. It is still plastic.

    • @MegaRetroRocket
      @MegaRetroRocket 8 років тому +6

      Polyester is a fabric, made of plastic. So are all the varieties of nylon.

    • @another3997
      @another3997 6 років тому +1

      onetwothree57 I really do wonder what kind of education some people have! If you don't know what a fabric is, you need to go back to school.

    • @scotttovey
      @scotttovey 4 роки тому

      It's all about the definition of the word you are using.
      You should start looking up words you think you know the definition of.
      It is quite interesting. It's rare but sometimes, the daily use of a word turns out to not even be one of it's actual definitions.
      From English explanatory dictionary (main)
      fabric
      ˈfæbrɪk n. 1 a a woven material; a textile. b other material resembling woven cloth. 2 a structure or framework, esp. the walls, floor, and roof of a building. 3 (in abstract senses) the essential structure or essence of a thing (the fabric of society). [ME f. F fabrique f. L fabrica f. faber metal-worker etc.]

  • @ScotsFurian
    @ScotsFurian 7 років тому

    Dude your CRAZY ! Seek help. This is not fabric. Its plast bags stuck togeter which is costing you more money in materials 'parchment paper, wrapping paper, electricity, iron etc than it would cost to buy plastic sheets

    • @ScotsFurian
      @ScotsFurian 7 років тому

      Justme. Yea ok. Im all for that. I like to try to make something useable out of junk too. Im also interested in recycling HDPE but these sheets being described as fabric seems inaccurate to me. Ive yet to find an efficiant method thats low in its energy use and which produces proffessional grade material. Ie with no air pockets. I think the way to go is to pelletise the material first, feed it through a heating chamber and them press it into a mold or through a die to form your 'stock but this is obviously a complex aparatus requireing an investment in time, materials and money so most people dont so we end up with optimistic people trying to reinvent the wheel and basically just making more landfill while using up more resources in the process so its doubly wastefull. If you happen to be american can you tell me why, on average US home use x2 the electric than European homes ? Why is your food so cheep and your gass so cheep ? All this abundant resources and they seem to be frivilous and wastefull with them ! Im all for recycling but what needs to be done is replacing hdpe bags with paper or reuseable bags.

    • @another3997
      @another3997 6 років тому +1

      ScotsFurian Nobody says that YOU have to do anything like this. But why shouldn't anybody else. Far too few plastic bags get recycled the world over. The cost of going to the shops to buy more plastic sheeting, which you still have to cut up to suit your own purposes, will offset the electricity costs of this.

    • @scotttovey
      @scotttovey 4 роки тому

      It's all about the definition of the word you are using.
      You should start looking up words you think you know the definition of. It is quite interesting.
      It's rare but sometimes, the daily use of a word turns out to not even be one of it's actual definitions.
      From English explanatory dictionary (main)
      fabric
      ˈfæbrɪk n. 1 a a woven material; a textile. b other material resembling woven cloth.
      2 a structure or framework, esp. the walls, floor, and roof of a building.
      3 (in abstract senses) the essential structure or essence of a thing (the fabric of society). [ME f. F fabrique f. L fabrica f. faber metal-worker etc.]

    • @scotttovey
      @scotttovey 4 роки тому

      @@ScotsFurian
      "If you happen to be american can you tell me why, on average US home use x2 the electric than European homes?"
      It all comes down to supply and demand.
      Homes in the US tend to be much larger than in Europe and other places. Hence, the additional use of electricity.
      American's have always preferred larger automobiles and larger homes. More space takes more energy to produce.
      "Why is your food so cheep and your gass so cheep?"
      Food production in the US traditionally has surpassed the rest of the world. There is also government subsidies for food. Basic supply and demand. There is a greater supply in the US for food than demand, the result is lower food prices.
      US oil production over since Trump was elected has increased to the point the United States is the highest oil producing nation on earth. But that's not the only reason gas prices in the US are lower. We pretty much would prefer a growing economy with lower gas prices than a stagnate economy with higher gas prices.
      "All this abundant resources and they seem to be frivilous and wastefull with them!"
      The Lord in heaven thought to give the world an example of the economic prosperity that will exist after Jesus Christ returns, He therefore blessed America. In return, the world complains about the great abundance that America has.
      "Im all for recycling but what needs to be done is replacing hdpe bags with paper or reuseable bags."
      I read a report that stated: "It takes 300 years for a reusable bag to offset the use of throw away plastic bags."
      "frivilous and wastefull"
      That's a matter of perspective and is not necessarily accurate.
      You can be sure that those with lower incomes in the US are no more frivilous and wasefull than those with lower incomes in other countries.
      The focus however is usually and typically on the rich unless the rich happen to be putting forth an anti-American agenda that the left love.
      America is blessed by God in heaven because America has from her beginning, blessed the Jews with freedom of religion and beginning in 1947, the State of Israel. This is why America is so often prosperous. Now, God can bless every nation with abundance and none would lack, but the vast majority of nations on earth more often persecute Christians and Jews rather than blessing them. The end result is that they are cursed rather than blessed.
      Genesis 12:1: Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
      2: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
      3: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.