Does anyone know about plastics?! school project

[la690]

OK. for engineering we had to design a cd player holder to put in you car so that the portable cd player doesnt slide allover the dashboard...("why not get a cd deck?") IDK it was an assignment. anyways we designed one but need to know what kinda of plastic to make it out of. any ideas? anybody? help.....

[Morally0Confused]

you could look at fiberglass

[-=Squid=-]

Nylon. Yes, nylon. Not to flexible, not to hard. If you need some, lemme know, I might be able to hook you up (free of course) Im not sure though.

EDIT: I AM pretty farmiliar with different types of plastics, so any questions, feel free to ask.

[HoppysMag]

good old plexi-glass easy to score. and be heated and bent soft to drill but blenty strong for your purpose

[la690]

how much does nylon usually run per square inch?

[argnot]

Hey man I go to school for industrial design/special effects. Have you made molds yet? As far as plastics go I would recommend silicon gi-1000(pretty solid stuff and it will stick to smooth surfaces) or urethan(sp?) plastics. If you want to machine it nylon is a decent choice but there is better stuff out ther and I would go the way of molding and then using silicon or urethan. check out smooth-on plactics website im not sure what it is, just look it up on google but they are the plastic pimp

[PyRo]

I made one of these. I got velco that had sticky stuff on it

[la690]

haha. well we wouldnt be able to do a big project on it if all we used was velcro

[mcveighr]

I made one with velcro as well.

You engineers over think things.

[impostal22]

lol if you ask me, velcro is the best solution. it's cheap, and nothing will keep the cd player safer.

[la690]

lol. i cant help it. i suggested it but it doesnt fit the "assignment criteria" and i guess the point isnt really to invent a cd player holder, but rather learn about the engineering design process all together so it doesnt really matter what we're making....but, yes, velcro would be better.