Hey friends in Colorado, Colorado Plastics (which is practically in my back yard) has a half-price remnant sale every 4th Friday of the month, and they carry a lot of laserable goods. Here’s the info from the website:
"Monthly 4th Friday Half-Price Plastic Remnant Sale
"Every month, on the fourth Friday of the month, Colorado Plastic Products puts all of its remnant and scrap plastic on sale for half-price. This sale includes machinable plastic like ABS, acetal, Delrin, HDPE, nylon, PTFE, polypropylene, Teflon, Ultem and UHMW. It also includes see-through sheet plastics like acrylic, Lexan, Lucite, PET-G, Pleixglas, polycarbonate, and Vivak.
“We waive the minimum order amount of $25 for this sale too.”
Maybe the first CO-GFUG meeting could begin with a field trip to get plastics and then snacks at either the gastropub down the street or my digs.
When they get too much of a material, they go to 75% off. The Delrin bins (white and black) were in the last two months at 75%. Picked up some 4 foot lengths 2.5x2.5 inch Delrin for $5 (they don’t have the blocks any more) that I can resaw down to 1/4 in or less and make available.
After Kòptis became a reality, my wife went down with me last month and got to experience the selection of raw material. She even found some green granite freckled acrylic to try @Jules acrylic sump bowl (BTW @Jules could I get an SVG of that).
The Colo-Glowster in Lyons would enjoy getting to experience that too.
It would be fun to meet those in the Denver-Boulder metro area. So far, I have not determined who the other 2 (on the Glowforge map) are in FoCo.
Btw, I’m betting that the sales for November & December will be on the third Friday of these months. They adjusted the dates last year to avoid Black Friday and the last Friday before Christmas.
I am surprised how busy it is at opening, but there is potential decrease of usable/desirable choices.
I took my wife down last time (and got there like 15 minutes after they opened) and there was 8 to 10 people looking through everything.
BTW, Does anyone going to this Friday want some 1/16", 1/8", 3/16" and/or 1/4" Delrin to try out? I got my bandsaw resaw blade in 2 weeks ago and can cut some 2 3/8" x 10" strips to test on GF .
Still need to get a riser block to resaw anything taller than 6".
Hmm. I was thinking of arriving when they open for the best choices. I could pick some things up for you, @PrintToLaser. I would totally take you up on your offer, @PFI-Guy. My Pro should arrive sometime in the next three weeks.
Thank you Morgan, that’s very kind, but I don’t know enough about plastics to know what I’d want. I already have a pretty healthy stack of acrylic stashed.
Frankly, getting to meet my fellow Colo-forgers was more alluring than the potential savings on some material. I may feel differently when I see what you all make with your haul.
I’d be up to just meet up in the afternoon–I’ve been looking forward to that for, oh, about 2 years. When would your appointment let you get to Louisville?
This week had been a disaster at work, so getting to meet folks would be a wonderful change of pace… I’m more than ready to bail early on Friday afternoon if y’all are getting together.
I did cut (need a bit more practice for smoothness) some 1/8" Delrin from Colorado Plastics. I could drop it off at @dwardio 's house if you would like to take it to your afternoon meetup.