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04-25-2007, 08:01 PM
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What to do with plastic trees??
Hey guys, just a quick question about the left over plastic trees from a kit. Are they recyclable or anything? I've got two boxes full of them and I'd like to get rid of them, however if it were possible i'd rather not throw them out. I'll use a couple for constructing rollcages and what not, but as for the rest i'd like to be rid of them. Just curious if there is an environmentally friendly way of getting rid of them or using them for something else? I've thought about maybe melting them to form something else but doesnt that produce harmful vapors? I think custom moulding is way out of my league. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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04-25-2007, 08:22 PM
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Re: What to do with plastic trees??
I plant them all around my plastic village, that I drive my plastic cars through.
Sprue is recyclable. Japanese and German kits usually have recycling marks on the reverse sides of the sprue sheets. And it's all styrene, regardless of if it's marked or not.
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05-02-2007, 12:38 PM
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Re: What to do with plastic trees??
theres a guy i talked to a couple weeks ago and if i remember things right he told me that he uses the plastic trees to make some custom exhaust out of!
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05-02-2007, 01:58 PM
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Re: What to do with plastic trees??
You can make your own plastic putty if you pour them in 'trichlorethylene' and let them melt (sorry, this word is in french as I don't know how it's written in english)
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05-03-2007, 03:39 AM
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Re: What to do with plastic trees??
rollcages. exhaust piping, and even strut bars, I use my sprues for all this stuff.
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05-03-2007, 04:48 AM
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Re: What to do with plastic trees??
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I use a tiny part of my sprues for making piping attachments, but that's about it. I recycle the rest.
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05-05-2007, 07:41 AM
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Re: What to do with plastic trees??
Thanks for all of the suggestions guys, I never imagined there were so many uses for them.
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05-05-2007, 11:56 AM
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Re: What to do with plastic trees??
Hey Steve.
I always try to keep a bunch of them handy, they're often ideal diameter for rollcage tubing. And I make a lot of rollcages.
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05-05-2007, 03:26 PM
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Re: What to do with plastic trees??
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Just yesterday I seen first flowers of sprues I planted in the garden two years ago  LOL
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05-07-2007, 11:37 AM
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