Solid Styrene spheres?

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Solid Styrene spheres?

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I'm trying to locate a place to purchase smallish plastic/styrene spheres. I'm looking for smaller sizes, 2-30mm in size, anyone know something like this?
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Will acrylic do?
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I don't think so, I'm in afghanistan and have a limited number of tools to my disposal. I've been modelling with styrene and using bondene which I don't think works on acryllic.

About a year or so ago I came across a place that did styrene spheres the right sizes but can't find them!
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Hmmm, USP used to have styrene and i don;t know if bondene works on acrylic or not. CA works wonders on it but if you don't have it, you don't have it. Let me dig around a little more.
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Years ago I bought polystyrene spheres from U.S. Plastic. I can't find them on the website now. Another plastic supplier should have them. You can glue acrylic with Plastruct's Plastic Weld.

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Plastruct had some ABS at one time....might check them.
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Are Ping-Pong balls too big?
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They're not solid.
I speak of the pompatous of plastic.
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grabula wrote:I'm trying to locate a place to purchase smallish plastic/styrene spheres. I'm looking for smaller sizes, 2-30mm in size, anyone know something like this?
is it 2mm to 30mm, 2mm to 3mm or 20mm to 30mm?
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