laguna
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Anyone heard of sintered plastic?
Its not too dissimilar to powdered metal (iron filing for example) which is then compressed and compacted to a usable shape or form.
Sintering is the process of turning a solid substance into powder, thus sintered metal is moulded powdered metal, sintered plastic is moulded..., well you get the idea. Further processing using pressure+ heat can fuse the material together to form a complete solid or simply compacted to any degree of hardness with the aid of binders + latent heat. Think of powdered wood (saw dust or wood flour) plus wood glue that can be moulded, pressed and shaped. Just like sawdust and glue, many thermoplastic materials can also be sintered and compressed to produce virtually any shape without the need for expensive injection moulding machinery.
But here's the thing... Sintered plastic has useful properties for anglers as artificial baits because it remains porous and can be flavoured. As with other porous materials such as foams and sponges, porous plastics are composed of pores whose cavities are connected to one another and soak up liquids by capillary action.
I'm not really sure what the point of this post is but wasn't it interesting?
Anyone heard of sintered plastic?
Its not too dissimilar to powdered metal (iron filing for example) which is then compressed and compacted to a usable shape or form.
Sintering is the process of turning a solid substance into powder, thus sintered metal is moulded powdered metal, sintered plastic is moulded..., well you get the idea. Further processing using pressure+ heat can fuse the material together to form a complete solid or simply compacted to any degree of hardness with the aid of binders + latent heat. Think of powdered wood (saw dust or wood flour) plus wood glue that can be moulded, pressed and shaped. Just like sawdust and glue, many thermoplastic materials can also be sintered and compressed to produce virtually any shape without the need for expensive injection moulding machinery.
But here's the thing... Sintered plastic has useful properties for anglers as artificial baits because it remains porous and can be flavoured. As with other porous materials such as foams and sponges, porous plastics are composed of pores whose cavities are connected to one another and soak up liquids by capillary action.
I'm not really sure what the point of this post is but wasn't it interesting?