Asides > 2006 > March

Plastic you can mold in your home for DIY projects

MAKE has a post on Shapelock AKA Friendly Plastic, AKA Polymorph. Only problem: I don’t know where to get it in Australia. “Friendly Plastic” is available in Aus, but only as small, extremely expensive sheets. I’d love to be able to find it in pellet form.

Update: A solution has been found, and it’s at Jaycar.

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Create Digital Music » Prototyping Custom Gear: Friendly Plastic a.k.a. Shapelock Says:

[...] I received an email this morning from a friendly fellow Australian named Keith. He had googled his way to a short post on my site Jaymis.com looking for a source of Friendly Plastic/Shapelock/Polymorph in Australia. After a couple of emails back and forth I figured out that he’s Keith from Plasq/Comic Life/Rax, and he figured out that I’m Jaymis from CDMu/CDMo, but we still didn’t have an Australian source for useful thermoplastics. [...]

Plastimake Says:

6 years later… we’re now selling Polycaprolactone in Australia under the brand name Plastimake. We well in pellet form, in small and large quantities, with cheap Australian postage.

Check out our site, we’re posting new example uses every day:
http://www.plastimake.com

Hope this helps!

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