Looking for BLACK Styrene Rods

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Looking for BLACK Styrene Rods

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Does anyone produce small-diameter (i.e., 0.010 inch and 0.020 inch) styrene rods in black? All I can find on-line are white (Plastruct and Evergreen brands). But I recently purchased some new old-stock Contrail styrene rods on eBay, and they were black, unlike the gray styrene I remembered from years past, so I know they can be produced.
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How long do you need them to be? For those diameters you could stretch some black sprue. Black seems to be more available in ABS or acrylic. Just use a hotter solvent and those could work.
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Andrew Gorman wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:59 am How long do you need them to be? For those diameters you could stretch some black sprue. Black seems to be more available in ABS or acrylic. Just use a hotter solvent and those could work.
I’ve thought of sprue stretching. I’ve not see any black plastic rods that small.
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For all that's holy, don't google it.
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