Where to purchase small acrylic balls

Hobbit 77 · Post by **Hobbit 77** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:27 pm

Hi,
Does anybody know where I can get some small plastic balls? I know that Plastruct sells them but I just want to know if there are other companies that sell them. Looking for sizes that range from 15mm to 25mm in diameter.

Thanks,
Troll 7

Digger1 · Post by **Digger1** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:37 pm

http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/category.php?bid=14
http://www.jmkdisplays.homestead.com/shapes.html
http://www.dube.com/ball/3.html
http://www.mutr.co.uk/prodDetail.aspx?prodID=137

HTH

Hobbit 77 · Post by **Hobbit 77** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:47 pm

Thank you very much, Babaganoosh! These sights are great!
Thanks again!

Troll 7

Andrew Gorman · Post by **Andrew Gorman** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:32 am

Foer the sizes you want, check out craft, bead, and dollar stores. And the jewelry rack at the thrift shop. Look for clunky plastic beads, hair ties, and stuff like that.
Hope this helps,
Andrew

publiusr · Post by **publiusr** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:22 pm

Here are some suggestions.

I went to Acadamy Sports and Outdoors and found interesting Ping-Pong balls and lightup Golf Balls.

Several Rows over were plastic cones that could be warheads--and wide disks that were stumpy cones with a hole up top as wide as that liquid air-freshener in the auto dept.. These safety disks are perfect large scale station lower saucer parts.

Lastly is a tube-shaped JT paintball SPEED POD (Slammer system)

These are paintball containers with an iris that opens up like the 2001 moonbase. It looks nice for a tanker starship hull or mega-nacelles for larger bulk carriers.

The blue plastic cones in some nebulizer breathers (the larger kinds) fit perfectly nect to the small globes in some movie theatres (where you roll a ball 'up' a fake mountain with swinging motions)

The paintball pods really look nice.

big-dog · Post by **big-dog** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:20 am

Michael's sells plastic balls (maybe clear styrene, maybe acrylic), though they might not go down that small.

karim · Post by **karim** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:10 am

US Plastics is having a clearance on their Styrene Balls:

Styrene Balls

publiusr · Post by **publiusr** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:21 pm

Cool!

publiusr · Post by **publiusr** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:09 pm

Half Domes:

http://order.tupperware.com/coe/app/tup ... tem_detail

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Kylwell · Post by **Kylwell** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:29 pm

The acrylic balls are also on sale.

publiusr · Post by **publiusr** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:25 pm

OT--But The listerine strips themselvs might make for interesting monitor screens with soft light behind them.