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Bit of play for a few minutes today

bassethound

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This time just played with a few milk bottle tops and odd tops!

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Never know might refine it to make a decent pen one day :thinks:
 

Woody

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Very colourful Ted I will reserve judgement till you have turned them LOL but top marks for trying mate
 

donwatson

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Thanks for showing Ted. Can you tell me where the first post is you made on this subject ? I would like to see this from the beginning :nooidea:
 

paulm

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Excellent stuff Ted, it would be good to see them turned though :thumbs:
 

Jim

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Why not turn them Ted, you have started a fan club on this material .. We will protest and demand a pen to be turned from the bottle tops ... Or we can ask pretty please .. :kiss:
 

Lons

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I had a go at the weekend while the oven was hot after Sunday dinner (missus wasn't impressed :funny:). I wanted thin single colour slabs so I could cut them up then layer them together to re melt and twist.
Sort of worked but I discovered that greaseproof paper might be oven proof but so thin it tears when separating from the plastic and aluminium foil is even worse :rolling: but the aluminium dish from a M&S dine in chicken thingy worked well. I melted a pile of white milk bottle bits then squashed it between two offcuts of melamine in the bench vice down to 10mm thk.
As soon as I've scraped off all the bloody foil from the others I'm in business.:thumbs: Might have a go with the halogen oven next time my wife is out:whistling:
 

Lons

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I had a go at the weekend while the oven was hot after Sunday dinner (missus wasn't impressed :funny:). I wanted thin single colour slabs so I could cut them up then layer them together to re melt and twist.
Sort of worked but I discovered that greaseproof paper might be oven proof but so thin it tears when separating from the plastic and aluminium foil is even worse :rolling: but the aluminium dish from a M&S dine in chicken thingy worked well. I melted a pile of white milk bottle bits then squashed it between two offcuts of melamine in the bench vice down to 10mm thk.
As soon as I've scraped off all the bloody foil from the others I'm in business.:thumbs: Might have a go with the halogen oven next time my wife is out:whistling:

quick pics added.
White, blue and black are milk, 5 ltr domestos and engine oil bottles. Milk is the filtered type which is white as common or garden stuff is transluscent.
Multicoloured one is milk bottle tops.
I've used only HDPE
 

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