Building with Acrylic...

BlueAbyss · #1 10-20-2008, 09:00 PM

Hey everyone, I'd like to try building some stuff myself out of acrylic and I'd like to know where everyone gets their acrylic supplies. I'd need sheet, some tube, and acrylic solvent. Any ideas about ordering and having stuff like that shipped?

BlueAbyss · #2 01-27-2009, 07:33 AM

Bump for interests sake, I may end up having to order sheets from Ontario... Which really sucks, anyone know where I can get acrylic sheet and tube in Manitoba or Saskatchewan?

http://www.polyzone.com/

And acrylic is bonded with Methyl chloride, right?

brizzo · #3 01-27-2009, 04:30 PM

I'm sure sphelps could tell you where to find plastics in MB/SK

Out west here in BC I buy my materials from Industrial Plastics & Paints http://www.ippnet.com/

Methyl chloride is used for solvent welding joints. More commonly people know it under the brand name Weld-on; but Weldon comes in different consistencies to weld uneven joints and different applications. (Weld-on = methyl chloride + acrylic chips)

a4twenty · #4 01-27-2009, 04:45 PM

best advice is to look under plastic in the yellow pages.

http://www.yellowpages.ca/search/si/1/plastics/manitoba

heres a couple

Laird Plastics
8 Plymouth Street, Winnipeg, MB R2X 2V7
Telephone : 204-632-1136

Acryl Design Ltd
740 Century Street, Winnipeg, MB R3H 0M1
Telephone : 204-783-6064 Free Call

if you look at the link i posted, i'm sure you'll find something closer to you, good luck.

BCOrchidGuy · #5 01-27-2009, 06:15 PM

Nice thing about going with a plastic shop is that most can cut the acrylic for you and then ship it. As for tube it's harder to find but keep phoning around, out here my experience is that you can't buy tube pre cut you have to buy the length.

Douglas

BlueAbyss · #6 01-27-2009, 06:54 PM

Finally! LOL this thread is 2 months old...

Thanks, I appreciate the replies...

I never though of the yellow pages, DUH! I will ask sphelps, he does live in Saskatoon which is only 5 hours away.

Alberta-newb · #7 01-28-2009, 04:12 AM

I used to play around with acrylics back in the 80's so my memory might be off but for solvent I used methylene chloride which is also known as dichloro methane. At that time I worked at a lab so I always had it handy. For uneven joints I used to take the cuttings from my jigsaw (the powdered acrylic) and disolve it in a small bottle of solvent, the more you add the thicker the solution. It also dries completely clear, no need to purchase glues of varying consistency, just make your own