[Amps] nylons

[Steve Thompson]

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:50:57AM +0000, Steve Thompson wrote:
>> On Wednesday 16 March 2005 11:39, R.Measures wrote:
>>> Amen, Karl-Arne
>>>
>>> The styrenes - such as ABS - are quite good around RF.
>> At least one cross linked versions, Rexolite, is really good and also
>> mechanically strong. It's horrible to machine, and very difficult to
>> source this side of the Atlantic :-(
>
> I thought rexolite was fairly easy to machine (at least the machinists
> where I worked didn't complain when we had them fabricate some parts
> from it, but maybe they liked challenges.)  I retract that part of my
> previous message!
Don't jump to that - maybe my machinists weren't up to the challenge! I
think it tends to clog and bind, I'm guessing there's an art to getting the
tool sharpening and feed speeds just right.

Can anyone else add thier experience?

Steve