Faux Shrinky Dink Fail!
by DotatDabbled
by Dot – Dabbled.org
I am the self proclaimed queen of making faux shrinky dinks using #6 plastic… the the point of collecting the stuff (to-go boxes, lids from the bakery, whatever) and keeping it around the kitchen should the need to make something plastic ever arise. So the other day, when we needed a piece of clear hard plastic as part of our “Rubber Band Powered Hot Wheels Car Launcher” (not a Fail!) we figured “let’s do a super large shrinky dink!”
For some background, we planned to use a piece of shrunken plastic as the top to this (where you see the clear plastic we ended up using instead, when this became a Fail).
How to NOT make a shrinky dink.
I pulled out a really large lid I had been saving, I cut it as large as I could, and me and the handy hubby drew cool flames all over it with sharpie markers. I envisioned a cool flame covered clear plastic lid to our car launcher.
We put it in the toaster oven (it just barely fit) and watched the shrinking happen.
Unfortunately 1) possibly due to the size, it mangled itself and fused together during the shrinking process and 2) it shrunk WAY smaller than typical, so even if it had been flat, it wouldn’t have worked.
So handy hubby just found some scrap Lexan, and used that instead. Perfectly serviceable, but not nearly as cool!
PS, If you like it, Go Vote for my Car Launcher Instructable in the Rubber Band Powered Contest (it’s the 6th one…)
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We tried the black takeout plastic (from the bottom of a deli cheese tray) to make moustaches… it didn’t work!
You know, they’re making some of those clear plastic-looking boxes and lids out of cornstarch, do you think this might have been one of those?
But thanks for sharing, I might try shrinking some of my own recycling.
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No, that’s the nice thing about recycling symbols, it pretty much tells you exactly what plastic you have. It normally works very well… just look for the ones labeled #6 in the recycling triangle! (they won’t ALL work, but generally the clear ones will.)
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