New to ME!!

[ed4copies]

In nearly 20 years of turning acrylics, I thought I had seen everything that "could happen".

Today, I was cutting some blanks (from the sheet--that's how we get them) and found this!!!

I would have said this is impossible on factory made products--but here is the proof, it IS possible--it has to be an air bubble.

So, if you find blanks like this in ones I have shipped to you, please let me know----I now know it IS possible

 

[alphageek]

How thick is that slice Ed? unless the picture is deceptive, that "bubble" looks almost tube shaped??

 

[kmla]

I dunno...

Think it might be that new species of acrylic eating beatles that was discovered recently...

 

[ed4copies]

Yes, that is over 3/4" thick.

Perhaps the plastic parasite strikes again!?!?!?!

 

[jasontg99]

I don't think that is an air bubble. That is a perfect circle. Almost like it was drilled. i know you just had your eyes fixed Ed, but are you sure you were using a saw and not a drill press???

 

[Jim Burr]

Chuck Norris said it's not an air bubble...fill it

 

[Rick P]

That is one odd looking bubble Ed! I think there might be something to this acrylic borer beetle thing......

 

[Haynie]

Stick a piece of brass in it and call it good.

 

[flyitfast]

Boy am I confused??
I thought the hole went the length of the tube.
I'll try this new way - makes for a really short pen tho'.

Kinda like the pilot that landed across the runway - It sure was a really short runway but boy was it ever wide!!! :airplane::airplane:
gordon

 

[alphageek]

Yes, that is over 3/4" thick.

Perhaps the plastic parasite strikes again!?!?!?!

I'm sure there is an answer to it, but there is something that doesn't ring right to me. A bubble thats perfectly round, but is at least 3/4" long?

I don't think that was an air bubble. Maybe something that feel into the material as it was being layer as a sheet then disintegrated?

I can't imagine any way that an air bubble would form that perfectly round and straight like a straw.

 

[ed4copies]

I would have thought it was a gag, but there was no way for anyone to "play with" the sheet. No exterior holes, just this on the interior---VERY strange!!

 

[thewishman]

I bet the guy with the Stanhope lenses commissioned this blank.