good afternoon YouTube so this is some of this pal ram dual ball polycarbonate sheet if you can
read that across there as the name implies it's made out of polycarbonate and then it's got these
channels in there this is an eight millimeter five sixteenth of an inch spacing and then top
and bottom polycarbonate sheets and it has this protective film on it and you can see that where
where I removed the film unfortunately this sat outside in the Sun for quite a while and this
film is just really fragile you can kind of peel it off a little bit and then it's stuck down and
that takes too much time to remove so what I found works really well is some compressed air and then
watch this right here see how that just peels it back it's almost like sand blasting without
the sand and it doesn't damage the surface at all it actually relies on the fact that this
plastic is is rather brittle and once the air gets under there it lifts it up a little bit and then
just chips off the brittle of plastic and the other thing you can do with the compressed air
I've showed this in another video is if you do any cutting on this material you'll end up with
like little bits of plastic sawdust inside of there and you can just run the air along these
channels and if you just kind of guide it along with your fingers blow all of this out and then
what you can use is you can either use a foil tape aluminum foil tape over here if you want
to seal this up or they also make a spun bonded or spun woven fabric tape you can put on here if
you want to allow this to breathe but you want to keep dirt out so that probably what I'll do
once I get done with this I'm going to blow all the plastic film off of there and then
I'll just clean up the edges a little bit and put my tape on there to see all this in so it's nice
and clean so this was scrap piece of material that I have left over from my patio enclosure
and I figured something like this is probably useful in its amazing thing as it was exactly
the right size it's like I measured and cut this to fit yeah i just wanted to show you that tip if
you have any of this either this kind of panel or just plexiglass sheets where they include
this protective film if you leave that out in the sun or in the weather Ferb oh like a year
or so it's going to get brittle like this and it gets really hard to remove but a little shot of
compressed air from come in this way that way this way you got to kind of find its weak point and get
it to start to break up a little bit it's almost like peeling a hard-boiled egg you kind of have
to find find the good starting point but you can see how brittle this is like here's a I've got a
piece here and you know it tears out and then you know if you had really sharp fingernails you might
be able to get in there but you can't really get in there with anything like a razor blade because
you're going to scratch up the finish ok youtube that's about as much as I can get the rest of that
is really stuck on there so i guess i'd rather have a little bit stuck on there then you know
do something more aggressive maybe at some point if i get a sandblaster set up i could try imagine
baking soda blasting might get that off of there but for now I think that's good enough I'm going
to clean this one up and then i'm going to try a couple of magnets in there and see if that's
enough to hold this in place because this will be my front door on the 3d printer enclosure
and then i'll use the other piece for the top reusing all this old scratch might as well use
it I figured this was pretty good material when I got a hold of it it's actually kind of neat stuff
they make this in many different thicknesses and then you can get two or three walls so this is the
two wall eight millimeter I think they have a six millimeter eight and a I think a 10 millimeter and
then two and three wall thicknesses they use this for greenhouse walls and roofs and that's what I
used on my patio enclosure so it seems to hold up pretty good it's light but it's rigid it's what i
like about it it's it's almost like plywood it's very very strong but it's very light it's got a
piece of plexiglass that thick it would be really heavy I can pick it up just two fingers there hold
it out you can pick up a whole sheet of this 4 by 8 foot sheet and it's no problem to move around
so I think this is the door to my 3d printer enclosure so we'll show you what it looks like
when I get it put together stay tuned for that video and as always thanks for watching see ya