Built a short stand to set my meat grinder and meat tubs on that's just below waist high. Easier on the trashed rotator cuffs than working at normal counter top height. Built it with 2x4's and a piece of OSB. I have a 1/4" thick piece of HDPE coming that I will top it with to make cleaning it off easier and more sanitary.
I would really like to just glue the HDPE to the wood if I can.
What will stick the two together and not come apart on me?
I may put a few stainless screws around the perimeter as well.
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Good luck with that. If the surface is big enough maybe try contact cement. You can also build the stand with wood and cover in Formica laminate for an easy to clean surface. You could also just buy an electric grinder and really save your rotator cuffs.
What makes HDPE such a great material for blow molding is how almost nothing sticks to it.
IME it is the WORST material to 3d print. The only print bed I've found that it will stick to is other sheets of HDPE when the extruded material is hot enough to melt the print bed and fuse to it.
So, yea, good luck.
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Yeah, that's pretty much the gist of a quick Google I did. There are some chemicals that will cause a bond, but I'll have to go back and see what they were and then find the glue that contains them. All Greek to me though.
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Yeah, that's pretty much the gist of a quick Google I did. There are some chemicals that will cause a bond, but I'll have to go back and see what they were and then find the glue that contains them. All Greek to me though.
Yes, there are chemicals that will cause a bond, but not at room temperature normal pressures.
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Good luck with that. If the surface is big enough maybe try contact cement. You can also build the stand with wood and cover in Formica laminate for an easy to clean surface. You could also just buy an electric grinder and really save your rotator cuffs.
I'm already talking about an electric grinder. Pretty sad, huh, lol.
I spend 50 hours a week welding overhead. Last thing I want to do is jam meat through a grinder at countertop top level. Swore last year it was the last time.
I'm thinking contact cement contains the chemicals that will cause a bond with HDPE but I might be wrong in what I read. There's a way, just thought some y'all might know offhand.
I did consider formica but found a deal on the HDPE, and I like how durable my cutting boards are. Might use this stand as a sit down cutting board dual purpose, which is why I'd rather just glue it down.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children may live in peace. ~~ Thomas Paine
Good luck with that. If the surface is big enough maybe try contact cement. You can also build the stand with wood and cover in Formica laminate for an easy to clean surface. You could also just buy an electric grinder and really save your rotator cuffs.
I'm already talking about an electric grinder. Pretty sad, huh, lol.
I spend 50 hours a week welding overhead. Last thing I want to do is jam meat through a grinder at countertop top level. Swore last year it was the last time.
I'm thinking contact cement contains the chemicals that will cause a bond with HDPE but I might be wrong in what I read. There's a way, just thought some y'all might know offhand.
I did consider formica but found a deal on the HDPE, and I like how durable my cutting boards are. Might use this stand as a sit down cutting board dual purpose, which is why I'd rather just glue it down.
This is the best I've found, but I doubt it will work for your purposes:
It's really sticky stuff, but if it doesn't work, it's a mess to clean off so you can try something else.
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No idea where you could source it.... We use .010 Mylar at work, rolled stock.
It's my miracle meat cutting surface. Cover anything with it, cut right on it, roll it up and toss it when it get cut up. I get it free, so it gets pitched every use.
Again, no idea where you could find it that thick. And you sure as hell don't want 1000 yards, or the bill!
I'll be dipped! It took a few minutes...
$5.50/ft for the 40". Gotta buy 25 feet. Expensive, but if you only need 3' that roll could last you 10 years.
(It works well with a good 2 sided tape. We cover work tables witartwork. work. makes a nice,easy clean surface)
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I built my own electric grinder using a #32 hand grinder with a pulley on the auger and a half horse commercial motor. Mounted it on a base made with 2x4s and topped with OSB. I put a bunch (that's a highly precise, technical term), of coats of polyurethane on it. It cleans up easily.
We use food grade, 1/4" HDPE (Starboard) often on fish cleaning tables/stations in harsh environments. Have never used adhesive though. We use a solid backer and attach with stainless steel trim screws. The only trick is slightly counter-sinking the screw heads so they won't dull or ruin knives.
We use food grade, 1/4" HDPE (Starboard) often on fish cleaning tables/stations in harsh environments. Have never used adhesive though. We use a solid backer and attach with stainless steel trim screws. The only trick is slightly counter-sinking the screw heads so they won't dull or ruin knives.
That will probably be the way I go.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children may live in peace. ~~ Thomas Paine