rsx1974
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Well thats how the material was described to me. Today I ran into a new friend that works with Aircraft "stuff". I happened to show him the pen I turned from solid aluminium rod the other day and he thought it and my other pens were really cool. Well he walked me over to a trash barrel and pulled out some various metal rods and then said "this could be interesting" as he handed me several short very hard, very strong, very light rods. He then said " we put thin sheets of this stuff under aircraft seats to stop small arms fire in "certain" aircraft".
This actual prodct is called Phenolic, here's a description of the net:
Phenolic sheet is a hard, dense material made by applying heat and pressure to layers of paper or glass cloth impregnated with synthetic resin. These layers of laminations are usually of cellulose paper, cotton fabrics, synthetic yarn fabrics, glass fabrics or unwoven fabrics. When heat and pressure are applied to the layers, a chemical reaction (polymerization) transforms the layers into a high-pressure thermosetting industrial laminated plastic.
The stuff I got was in rod form and you could see the layers were actually wound.
It was much harder than any acrylic I've turned but not as bad as the solid Aluminium one I did the other night.
Sorry about the long write up but I gigured it might help answer some questions.
Oh by the way no finish applied just turned and mm through 12000.
This actual prodct is called Phenolic, here's a description of the net:
Phenolic sheet is a hard, dense material made by applying heat and pressure to layers of paper or glass cloth impregnated with synthetic resin. These layers of laminations are usually of cellulose paper, cotton fabrics, synthetic yarn fabrics, glass fabrics or unwoven fabrics. When heat and pressure are applied to the layers, a chemical reaction (polymerization) transforms the layers into a high-pressure thermosetting industrial laminated plastic.
The stuff I got was in rod form and you could see the layers were actually wound.
It was much harder than any acrylic I've turned but not as bad as the solid Aluminium one I did the other night.
Sorry about the long write up but I gigured it might help answer some questions.
Oh by the way no finish applied just turned and mm through 12000.