<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><DIV>Hi Sean,</DIV><DIV> The disk diameters shrink by .120 " ( for a 6" dia disk) - 2% and the thickness increases slightly, that is in agreement with info from Stachiw ( Handbook of Acrylics) . But I noticed some slight variation of the material before the annealing process. There is no distortion or anything like that . I guess the slight variation of 20 thousandths will be inconsequential once the gaskets and squeezed on with the retaining ring.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian <BR><BR>--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:<BR><BR>From: "Sean T. Stevenson via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] annealling<BR>Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:02:07 -0600<BR><BR></DIV><P dir="ltr">Brian, cast acrylic will exhibit some natural shrinkage as you approach thermoforming temperatures - it could be that you are seeing the beginning of this at your annealing temperature. Is the discrepancy in thickness only, or are your diameters off as well?</P></DIV>
<P dir="ltr">Barring any obvious visual abberation, I'd be inclined to use the windows as per the minimum measured thickness. If there is visual distortion, you might want to flatten it and then run it through annealing again. Once the shrinkage has occurred, you shouldn't see it again.
</P><P dir="ltr">Sean<BR>
<BR><BR><DIV>On October 16, 2014 2:45:18 PM MDT, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<BLOCKQUOTE style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;">
<DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV>Hi All,</DIV><DIV> Been annealing my disks, I've been just standing them on end in the oven. I'm seeing a tiny variation of the thickness of the acrylic, at first I thought it was because of standing them on end , but I think there is actually some variation in the thickness of the original material. The most I've seen is .020 . I guess it's nothing to be concerned about. Anyone have any info on this?</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian</DIV></DIV>
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