Oh... the smell of liquefied styrene... Smells like the 70's! Let's go nostalgic with a little bit of spin welding on Xmas. But due to low battery, just a little bit.
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Best toys from the best era
Back to your roots, the second FranLab video I ever watched was on spin welding (first was on the C64), long long ago.
I had the helicopter kit when I was a kid. I never really got the plastic to fuse. It was really disappointing.
Ótimo trabalho
What is the interesting looking tree circuit behind you in some kind of large tube? It is next to the red lava lamp.
This is a novel concept for plastic welding. I could see this being kinda useful for plastic welding. Using friction.
I remember the commercials for those and saw them in the store, but never had one.
I had one of these when I was a kid and loved it. Burned my fingers a few times, of course, and I mostly ended up "welding" things together that weren't in the kit. 🙂
We used to do this for model/prototype building with styrene rods chucked into a dremel or flex-shaft. Usually MEK was an easier option for bonding styrene parts, but now and then friction welding came in handy.
I had one in the late 70s nice
Meccano was much better with screws all over the place. You could undo anything.
Thanks Fran, never a dull moment. You are one of the few people on YouTube I would love to meet.
Had that as a kid. Loved it!
Edit: fixed a cracked case on a radio, , and also fixed my vertibird, among other things it was never intended to do
Aww.. this is nice. The first time I saw one of your videos was the first spin weldeder vid! Years sure go fast!
Is that an old Texas Instruments Calculator?
Watching this my memory conjured up the smell of the molten plastic! I at one time in my younger years worked as an RV tech. Working on the HDPE tanks adding fittings required spin welding them in.
All kinds of things the Norwegians have Italians make…
As a kid I would have killed for that bag of extra rods.