heat compression machine

Covid is here and we don’t have so much access to campus facilities. However, this summer the plastic lab is open to students taking the Plastic Fantastic!? course.

I’m teaching from Shanghai, so I’m trying to show some possibilities on the use of the heat press machine. Here is a video on how to create some flat texture like this:

A previous post with information about this machine can be found here:
http://plastic.ntsi.info/2019/09/23/findings-of-hdpe-plastics-in-heat-compression-machine/