Question about Styrene

It really depends on what your doing.

I buy a lot of rod .015, .02, .025, .035 and such from Everygreen and plastruct  I also buy plain  sheet styrene; right now I only have .015 thick and .025. You may look into the flat strips also. I have some .02 x .125 and .015 x .250. I also have a few assorted packs of tubing and a couple pakages of channel in assorted sizes.

I like to keep styrene on hand, you never know when you might need it. You'll find it comes in handy to fill large gaps and such.

If you dont like to keep stuff in stock then figure what you will need on your next project and buy accordingly.

I find the best stuff to have on hand is square and round stock and sheets, all in varrying sizes.  I get mine from towerhobbies.com as they seem to have an unbelieavably large selection.

-Fred

You're probably having free styrene delivered to you door. Check those junk mail envelopes for buried treasure.

Gerald! Are you thinking of changing your handle to Chameleon?

We're getting the Family album lately.....but it's fun! 

Well, at least the name is the same.

I'm one of those guys who also like to change the furniture around for a change venue.

I can source full sheets of styrene...4'x8', 3'x6' or 5'x11' plus a few other sizes...sizes also depends on thickness. The sheets I still have on hand were expensive 10 years ago...I hate to venture a guess what they'd run now.

Get to be good friends with the various retailers in you area...many of the point of sale displays include styrene for the structure and/or signage. When they replace old for new, then you can probably pick them up for nothing. I have some old signage from a light display at the hardware store I use to manage... .8 inch in 2'x4' sheets...who cares if it has printing on one side, that wipes off with a little lacquer thinner.

Check the various signs for sale too, many are good quality styrene...FOR SALE, HOME FOR RENT, DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS....lol Usually they are under a couple of bucks.

Hello All,

Believe it or not another good place to get a lot of inexpensive plastic to use is from window blinds. You can pick them up for about $5.00 from any department store, or if your replacing ones in the house they work great. Small ones are 23 inches in length x 1 inch wide x .015 thick.

I replaced three in the house and got 75 slats to use.

And if you replace any of the metal ones they can be used for scratch build material as well as cutting into thin strips and using the straight side as a scribing guide.

hth

Cheers,

Thom