Acrylic - Supplies, Tools and Equipment

• Read about: How Frederick Hart solved some of the problems of casting sculptures in Lucite
  
  
• Midton Acrylics - Specialised Applications - The high clarity and inert nature of the acrylic is ideal for laboratory equipment for example. Sculptures can be reproduced with the intrinsic feature of reflected and refracted light transmission and also the enhancement of incorporated parts or printed designs if desired. Castings can be produced with cavities and without joints to withstand a vigorous working environment. Solid colours and tints can be added for visual appeal or to aid function. Additives can be mixed into the acrylic to modify optical characteristics and metal or other parts embedded to provide radiation screening etc. in these cases the finished part is effectively a composite material.
  
  
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• Mutant Materials Plastics The fabulously prolific family of plastics is represented in the show by dozens of different objects, ranging from chairs to minuscule telephones, manufactured using a variety of techniques. Some of the most archaic processes, such as compression molding, are particularly suitable for objects made with recycled polymers. More sophisticated technologies, such as injection-molding--in which granules of raw material are conditioned by heat and pressure to reach a fluid state and then injected into a steel mold--are now frequently employed for the common polymers polystyrene, high-density polyethylene, polypropylene, and ABS. The techniques of calendaring and extrusion are continuous processes in which the mold is an open-ended channel, while in blow or rotational molding plastic is subjected to centrifugal pressure that forces it to adhere to the mold walls.  Plastics were invented in the last century, and until the middle of this century they were used only to imitate natural materials. Since that time, technology has brought polymers to a very sophisticated level of formal and structural evolution. Today's plastics are sturdy, resistant, and beautiful. They can take on many shapes, from the most straightforward to the most articulated. No form is absolute: mutant plastics can resemble translucent and transparent glass, they can be molded to match the organic shapes of parts of our body, they can be treated to look like folded, articulated plans, and they can be detailed into small, complex objects like computer mice.
  
  
• Castolite -  4915 Dean Woodstock, Il 60098  Call 815-338-4670 to request a catalog.  Acrylic for casting.