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3.2.2 Material Surface Finish Swatch Reference Blue ABS Acrylic
What is ABS plastic Process of the Swatch Additional Work
ABS plastic is a common thermoplastic polymer - By using heat gun, I melted the swatch piece and
used for 3D printing prototype development and then I placed on top of my foam model using hands
injection moulded part manufacturing. This plastic is and the right-angle ruler I made the swatch into a
very popular due to low production cost and the mould.
ease with which the material is machined by plastic - I applied grey primer waited for it to dry then used
manufacturers. ABS is amorphous and so has no sandpaper to sand down I repeated this 4 times.
true melting point. - Then I applied the light blue spray paint first to see
Where ABS come from how dark it was and then when it dried, I applied the
ABS is copied from acrylonitrile, butadiene and darken one.
styrene. Acrylonitrile is a synthetic monomer - I also applied topcoat which was gloss finish to
produced from propylene and ammonia, butadiene give the shininess.
is a petroleum hydrocarbon obtained from C4
fraction of steam cracking. styrene monomer is
made by dehydrogenation of ethyl benzene. Ethyl
and benzene obtain the reaction of hydrocarbon.
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