Friday, 31 May 2013

Melting plastic in the microwave oven.

I saw this online with the simple instructions to: put cheap plastic beads into a baking tray and cook at 200 C for 20 minutes. Well... 

We established that we should do this outside, so we didn't have to breathe too much plastic fumes. So I took the microwave combi oven outside.


Fed the extension lead out of the window. 


Put cheap beads in a baking tray. 




Cooked it for 20 minutes at 200. It didn't work exactly as I'd hoped. 



The beads melted, but not enough to flatten and run into each other as I thought they would. 


I put it back in the oven at 220 for 30 minutes and similar story, although it did melt a bit more and produced a flatter surface. 



Top


Bottom. 

On the top there are pointy bits and it's bumpy. On the bottom, the holes in the beads are still visible. 

I think maybe I need to get beads with smaller holes, cook it hotter and for longer. I'm not sure. 

We shall see. It was fun though. 

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  2. I just wonder about this and your article was one of the firsts.
    It is good, thank you. After i read your article, i decided to that would not worth to effort. I believe inside of microwave was smell pretty bad.
    Thank you for this article:) I wish you have a nice, free from Covid days.

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