[TheForge] OT - Mylar

[John Chobrda]

Dave:
    Your asking an old man to exercise his memory, from what I can 
remember mylar can not be shrink fit, you can pull it tight, but you 
cannot shrink it with heat. All the thermal blankets on satellites are 
aluminized mylar, if they shrank during bake out (process used to remove 
residual oils from mfg.) they would no longer fit.
John C.

Dave Brown wrote:

> This is a bit off topic, but there are so many people on this list of 
> varied talents and professions that I figure that there has to be 
> someone here familiar with Mylar.
>
> Can Mylar be shrink fit?  Think drum or pipe end here.  Can you shrink 
> fit Mylar over the pipe end and heat shrink the wrinkles out of it 
> where they form around the sides?
>
> Where would one get small sheet (say 18"sq) of Mylar?
>
> Dave Brown
> Heritage Smithing
> Green Bay, WI
>
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