Paranoid...much?
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Paranoid...much?
After all the Gold Plastic Syndrome horror stories I've heard about Slingshot. I've put him into a "vault". He's in a freezer ziploc bag with three desiccants, and then in a food storage container.
Phew!
I hope that saves him from GPS....
Phew!
I hope that saves him from GPS....
Cries and screams are music to my ears.
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Will this really help? BTW this really sucks we have to do this to our toys.
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I guess it might help to put a figure in a safe container, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a guarantee that it'll escape the effects of GPS.
For more on GPS, have a look here:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/GPS
For more on GPS, have a look here:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/GPS
It is one way to use food storage!
@ Minvera: I'm really hoping the ziploc bag & desiccants will help it. It doesn't sound like anybody knows what causes it (as the article you pointed out says). The storage container is just to keep weight off it from the other TFs.
@ Minvera: I'm really hoping the ziploc bag & desiccants will help it. It doesn't sound like anybody knows what causes it (as the article you pointed out says). The storage container is just to keep weight off it from the other TFs.
Cries and screams are music to my ears.
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They DO know what causes it, actually. Plastic is a polymer: long chain molecules that tangle into each other. Each chain is made out of molecular links. These can crosslink with other chains to make a shape, when heated. Gold plastic has small metallic flecks mixed into the polymer. These metallic flecks don't bond with the polymer well because they're different stuff, and eventually the polymer chains around the flecks start breaking in a local scale. when one fleck is close to others, all those little areas of small polymer breakage become one big fault line of broken polymers.
I'm afraid the desiccant won't help this one, since water doesn't play into this reaction. If you could chemically purge the plastic of free radicals (chemicals that "cut in" on the chains), that would help, but you'd have to melt the plastic to get at the inner molecules.
Just don't touch him. Or breathe on him.
SEALED SAMPLES have been observed broken, in their original packages.
I'm afraid the desiccant won't help this one, since water doesn't play into this reaction. If you could chemically purge the plastic of free radicals (chemicals that "cut in" on the chains), that would help, but you'd have to melt the plastic to get at the inner molecules.
Just don't touch him. Or breathe on him.
SEALED SAMPLES have been observed broken, in their original packages.
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Look at you, all grown up and explaining chemistry. All that time working in that lab must be paying off.Time Traveller wrote:They DO know what causes it, actually. Plastic is a polymer: long chain molecules that tangle into each other. Each chain is made out of molecular links. These can crosslink with other chains to make a shape, when heated. Gold plastic has small metallic flecks mixed into the polymer. These metallic flecks don't bond with the polymer well because they're different stuff, and eventually the polymer chains around the flecks start breaking in a local scale. when one fleck is close to others, all those little areas of small polymer breakage become one big fault line of broken polymers.
I'm afraid the desiccant won't help this one, since water doesn't play into this reaction. If you could chemically purge the plastic of free radicals (chemicals that "cut in" on the chains), that would help, but you'd have to melt the plastic to get at the inner molecules.