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Re: Home-made Air Muscle is Here!
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Date: 
Sun, 6 Jan 2002 03:24:08 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net[Spamcake]>
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c s soh wrote:

Erik Olson wrote:

In lugnet.robotics, Ben Firshman <Ben@firshman.demon.co.uk> writes:
I think that stuff is called polymorph - search for that on the net and
you will probably get some places to buy it.
I haven't used it, but you put it in hot water to make it soft.


I found it here:

http://www.argosphere.net/sandt/poly.htm

Christophe's air muscle design is exciting! And I like the way he makes the
plastic part.

Yes, the stuff is pretty tough.
And now you know how to make your own Lego parts.
You can even create *designer* parts that TLC never thought of :-)

Wow!  That seems like interesting stuff - I found a second link for it here:

  http://www.tep.org.uk/polymorph.htm

But I can't find anyplace that sells it in the USA. (Both of those links are
to UK).

Maybe it's called something different here?  Does anyone know?  I have a
dozen uses for something like this!

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  Re: Home-made Air Muscle is Here!
 
I know of some stuff called "friendly plastic" which came in strips 7 inches long and about 1.5 inches wide, which sounds about the same as polymorph. You can get what looks like the same stuff from here: (URL) also comes in pellets: (URL) plastic (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) Yes, the stuff is pretty tough. And now you know how to make your own Lego parts. You can even create *designer* parts that TLC never thought of :-) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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