Timeline for Sealing reused plastic sacks
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| Jul 16, 2015 at 21:24 | comment | added | holroy | Remember to accept answers if they are a good match for your question | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 16:03 | comment | added | Lefty | I tried the soldering iron technique and it worked quite well. I ended-up WRAPPING the tip of the iron in thick paper. The weight of the bags (filled with gravel, approx 20Kg) makes it impossible to lie them down like the video but I held a piece of wood on the other side to press the sides together. Timing is critical and I am getting better at it. Too long and it melts right through. Too short and nothing happens. The margin of error is about 1 second for a "spot weld", or about 5 seconds/inch for continuous seal. | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 20:45 | comment | added | UnhandledExcepSean | I've used a soldering iron to melt plastics together with great success before. Clothes irons never worked for me as they didn't get hot enough to properly bond the plastic. | |
| Jul 8, 2015 at 18:58 | comment | added | Lefty | Nice answer, +1. This is another technique I will try when I get the chance. I'll report back the results when I do. | |
| Jul 8, 2015 at 11:59 | history | edited | holroy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2015 at 11:53 | history | answered | holroy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |