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After a day or two of track making I seem to have ended up with a pile of plastic spiders - the sprues that Exactoscale chairs come on.

 

Has anyone come up with a David Attenborough friendly way of reusing or recycling them?

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Mine end up in the plastics skip at the local recycling centre. I have bins for scrap plastic, metal, wood and electronics. These get taken to the council centre whenever I have a worthwhile load. I have to trust that the council send the scrap for responsible reuse.

 

Dave

 

 

 

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I don't know about the specific plastic you are using, but my understanding is that once it has been used for injection moulding then it can't be re-used and is considered as scrap/waste.

For modelling purposes it could probably be re imagined as supports for corners, heated up and pulled out into fine wire etc etc.

 

Mike.

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You can also melt sprue by adding it to a spare bottle of plastic solvent (I used a old bottle of Revel Contacta cement) so that it glops down and can be used as a type of filler on other kits and models

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