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material selection

material selection

material selection

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I require a plastic sheet material suitable for use as a scraper.  The material must be tough enough to scrape and capable of being formed/shaped by a stamping process.  

RE: material selection

You describe many plastics.

What do you want to scrape, and under what conditions.

PET might do the job. Have you tried cutting up an old Coke bottle, or buying a small sheet of "Mylar" film. Mylar is DuPonts trademark for their PET films, but here will be others. I just don't know their names of the top of my head.

Nylon, Polycarbonate, Acetal, Polypropylene or even Styrene might do, depending on details of use and expected life

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RE: material selection

There are already commercially available plastic ice scrapers, some that look like the equivalent metal scraper as well as a give-away which was about the size of an index card, but about 3/32" thick.  They looked to be polystyrene

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RE: material selection

My new fridge/freezer came with a plastic scraper - it looks to be made of ABS.

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