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    Bonding Cellulose Acetate help!!

    I'll probably CNC a tray that can be split in half. Thanks again. :)
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    Bonding Cellulose Acetate help!!

    Yes! That's a perfect description of what I am trying to do - forming an ingot from scraps. Thank you very much for your tips. For my purposes I am only interested in making a single ingot at a time, so would an overhead funnel not be necessary? Could I simply lay the material inside of the...
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    Bonding Cellulose Acetate help!!

    Sorry there was a typo in the last post and I can't see where I can go back and edit it. The last sentence should read: "Any other ideas or tips of how I could achieve this at home would be greatly appreciated."
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    Bonding Cellulose Acetate help!!

    would simply melting them by bringing the material to its melting point work? It's approximately 170-260 Celsius which I could do safely with a toaster oven in the backyard. If the material is melted and I give it time to set, wouldn't that produce the same results? The chunks are about a...
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    Bonding Cellulose Acetate help!!

    I am trying to figure out how to bond numerous chunks of cellulose acetate into one solid "brick". These chunks are of the same color and do contain some sort of dye or pigment which I do not know exactly what it is. It is absolutely important that the final "brick" not show any signs that it...

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