material selection 1

[steve312]

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.

 

[patprimmer]

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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[IRstuff]

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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[PrentP]

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



Regards,

Peter P