How to Identify Any Type of Plastic | Orange Plastics Academy

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Need to find out what type of plastic a specific product or part is made from? In this injection molding video, you’ll discover how to identify a type of plastic with:
1. the sink-or-float test
2. a compression test, or
3. by burning it
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@Tommo020788 4 жыл бұрын

Would have been better if you actually demonstrated the tests rather than skip half of the tests while explaining them. Most people probably won't know for sure what you mean by "oil like substance" VS "grease like effect". If you could actually show these tests being done in full, it would be much more useful.

@justinpark9089 3 жыл бұрын

it is simple and helpful guide. i really like this video!!

@HRIservicesllcSturgeonBay 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, great video!

@veervikramsingh8649 2 жыл бұрын

It's useful information. Thanks for updating.

@minnie383 8 ай бұрын

Thank you. Have you thought if doing a quiz-type video, where you show how a bit of plastic behaves in these tests and we could guess what it is?

@bkkunalsharma233 4 жыл бұрын

very useful & important topic about plastic

@mallikarjunbhatmurgi2829 3 жыл бұрын

Very good information

@01mustang05 2 жыл бұрын

I want help to identify plastic types in things like assortments of unlabeled plastic shopping bags and various product bags; plastic types in kids car seats and other things for kids; bottle tops, seals, and the rings; used up gift cards and expired credit cards and alike; cell phone cases; and plastics metal scrappers separate. I also want to know what's not being recycled and why. Or are we switching from petroleum plastics to something more safer and non-toxic?

@charlaparedes2297 2 жыл бұрын

How do I separate PET from other plastics by sink and float and what solution should I use?

@mallikarjunbhatmurgi2829 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to ORANGE PLASTIC

@kubersinghtomar7152 Жыл бұрын

Good morning, very informative video. Thanks a lot for make like this videos. Can you please make a video on BOPP, PE, PP AND PET

@mariama.mohamed3695 4 жыл бұрын

Very good

@sharrayahchelseanavarro8819 2 жыл бұрын

what compressor did you use?

@Mriya6 11 ай бұрын

How would you seperate HDPE from LDPE if they both float?

@MGoudsmits Жыл бұрын

can you repair a tine crack in a POM tube?

@diveshsharma2373 4 жыл бұрын

Nice Keep it up

@omkarmagar4246 3 жыл бұрын

Helpful

@user-lh5ze3bk6z 6 ай бұрын

How can I will test TPO and PVB?

@jannikheidemann3805 Жыл бұрын

Can you make the same video, but about bioplastics and how to identify them? Edit: To be more precise: Of course the process for identifying chemically identical plastics made from non-fossil raw materials is the same as for thier fossil based counterparts. I was thinking of degradable plastics and those non-degradable plastics that can be made conveniently and efficiently from the types of fresh biomass that is widely available.

@siddheshpatil8491 2 жыл бұрын

Good 👍🏻

@Archentides 7 ай бұрын

How do you determine Polyphenylene Ether or Polyphenylene Oxide?

@adnanahmad6084 3 жыл бұрын

Without these three test perform. I can identify any type of plastics. By hands or eyes visually and chewing by teeth. I have diploma engineering in plastic technology from Aligarh Muslim university UP India.

@stm15ful 2 жыл бұрын

How can you do this? I think that smell the fire is dangerous for us

@geoffcrumblin9850 7 күн бұрын

You must have a doctorate, you are much too clever for social media. So how do you identify the type of fibreglass reinforcing?

@danreynolds8028 4 жыл бұрын

Would like to know the best glue to repair cracked or broken plastics, especially PP and PE. Many types of glue will just not bond to these 2.

@arbiter-pe3xg 4 жыл бұрын

any sort of cyanoacrylate glue should work as it sorta acts like an acid for the first few seconds and fuses the two parts together before hardening

@ReadyUpGo 3 жыл бұрын

After years of failure testing many varieties of glues, I heard about plastic welding, which I use over bonding agents whenever possible. Using soldering irons for melting plastics, even with adjustable temperature control, proved difficult and largely unsuccessful. I find that my heat guns work very well but required making custom tips to limit and deliver the hot air precisely. (Beware of overheating the inside of the gun when restricting the air flow). In my uneducated brief experience with this, I believe it essential to use the same kind of plastic as the part to be repaired when welding. (note: my Smoothy wax melting/shaping hot air butane torch has proven to be too hot to be of use unless a long tubular tip is made to allow cooling before application of air on plastics.) My respect and gratitude to Orange Plastics.

@mizzprezli 3 жыл бұрын

5 second fix, it works best on clear plastics but I've used it on solid color plastics with success

@ABDULREHMAN-by7zk 3 жыл бұрын

Toulene

@talalibo8252 2 жыл бұрын

Pls Can u tell me sensors that can classify these types of plastic automatic. Pls not NIR spectroscopy or similar one.

@akashkumarn6580 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@annie-ne3gy 2 жыл бұрын

Hello! Can I ask which sensor should I use if I want to detect different types of plastic (PET, PVC etc)? They have different wavelengths but I'm not sure which sensor to use for detecting them separately. Also, from where can I get it? Or how to make one?

@sageminentjunky5197 10 ай бұрын

Amazon

@GT7_onwheel Жыл бұрын

you guys make me take a test

@Erhannis 9 ай бұрын

How about PTFE?

@PanamaSticks 6 ай бұрын

Having used the procedures several times to identify plastics, I have to say there are big problems. Excepting the float test, they are destructive! What if you're trying to identify a plastic to repair an irreplaceable device?

@joydhua8501 2 жыл бұрын

Which plastics are dispossable

@toddster8793 4 жыл бұрын

I have a question for your expertise: I'd like to fabricate sliding plates for goalie my pads (for inline hockey). Which plastic would be light, durable and slide the best on an inline hockey rink surface?

@arbiter-pe3xg 4 жыл бұрын

HDPE would be a good bet as it is light, strong yet flexible and can be found in most milk cartons and drink lids, it can be identified easily by its recycling symbol with the number 2

@JC-ms2rz 2 жыл бұрын

PVC?

@mrRizwanFantastic 5 жыл бұрын

sir,should you discuss by its common structure that we are usually used in our daily life.it can better understandable.. thank you

@01mustang05 2 жыл бұрын

Yes; I want help to identify plastic types in things like assortments of unlabeled plastic shopping bags and various product bags; plastic types in kids car seats and other things for kids; bottle tops, seals, and the rings; used up gift cards and expired credit cards and alike; cell phone cases; and plastics metal scrappers separate. I also want to know what's not being recycled and why. Or are we switching from petroleum plastics to something more safer and non-toxic?

@7smr 5 жыл бұрын

I just thought of an idea. Since most plastics these days are identified by letters or a logo for recycling, you can conduct your own experiments by burning them and identify the color and smells from them. You can then try the same with an unknown plastic to see if it matches the same characteristics.

@akinordman7145 2 жыл бұрын

Well shit. You burned my idea.

@01mustang05 2 жыл бұрын

That's one way to permanently destroy brain cells and perpetuate no help to stop child abuses that innocent and helpless children still have no means to stop nor prevent. SMH, FML

@iqbala1104 4 жыл бұрын

How to see the difference between HDPE and LDPE ?

@jiarongli2799 Жыл бұрын

MFI and particle appearance are different.

@whateverrandomnumber 4 жыл бұрын

But will it blend?

@sageminentjunky5197 10 ай бұрын

Most likely no unless the plastic have near similar properties

@javidsekh6850 2 жыл бұрын

Tell me please whot is abs plastic 😭

@sideswipe147 3 жыл бұрын

Not really what I needed. Need to know how to tell if a plastic is halogenated or not.

@TEKKKNO 2 жыл бұрын

Im here looking for HDPE and i see there's no hdpe in types list

@dylanfoley5693 2 жыл бұрын

What info about HDPE are you looking for?

@alhassanali3305 5 жыл бұрын

Super goop go on I waiting more videos

@DellAnderson Жыл бұрын

What the h#$2 is "oil like substance" or "candlelike grease effect". Is PE and PP so expensive you couldn't find any to demo? That's all I came here for: Distinguish HDPE vs PP. Still not sure what I have.

@reddragongaming8501 9 ай бұрын

Hell is not a curse word you know

@DellAnderson 9 ай бұрын

@@reddragongaming8501 Who said anything about that word? And why would you think they did? There are multiple 4 letter words starting with "h" I can think of. Now back to the topic -- what is "candlelight grease effect" or "oil like substance". Found another video with some actual samples of HDPE and PP. I had PP, which welds similarly at similar temp to HDPE apparently, smells waxy when heated, but requires PP not PE to weld. Quite a learning experience.