From: Emily
My website: creativekidscrafts.wordpress.com
Subject: Melted plastic fail
After browsing around on Instructables I came across a post on how to make beads out of recycled soda bottles. I was eager to make a bracelet so I got started right away. I Followed all of the steps from cutting the bottle to coloring the strips with permanent marker. I rolled them around a pair of tweezers and decided to melt the plastic with a hairdryer. When the hairdryer didn’t melt the plastic I decided to try the oven. I “strung” the plastic pieces onto toothpicks and put them in the oven to melt into beads. When I pulled them out this is what I got…..A bunch of melted, colored strips of plastic. It’s a melted plastic fail if I do say so myself!
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It has to be recycling code #6 or it won’t shrink. Most soda bottles in the US are #1… so that’s probably what went wrong. Try it again with #6 plastic, it’ll come out fine! Any shrinky-dink type project works the same.
The most common source of #6 plastic here in the good ol US is clear shell takeout containers, be sure to wash them really well.
Ok, they are not using a hair dryer. Not enough heat. They are using a heat gun. They get really hot.
They are using a plastic #1 bottle.
I for the life of me *cannot* find Plastic #6 *anywhere*. (I live near Sacramento, California)
Every plastic package we end up with, I immediately check – they’re all #1.