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Activity 6: Cutting Styrene Questions

Good morning! I am not here today and a sub will be covering for me. Please be respectful and follow any directions you are given even if they are a little different that how I would ask. Being a sub is hard work and we need to appreciate their help. Today, you are going to work respond to these questions based on the Eric Strebel video in the Part 3 section of Project 10 . Respond to these questions in a Word file and upload that file to teams when you are done. 1. In what shapes can you purchase styrene? 2. Where can you purchase styrene? 3. What is interesting and useful about most styrene tubing? 4. What is one suppler of styrene stock? 5. What are hobby models made from? 6. What glues work well for styrene? 7. How can you bond PVC to styrene? 8. What technique for glue application does Strebel use? 9. What type of cutting tools does Strebel use? 10. How does styrene solvent weld work? 11. What is the trade-off of using a kicker for CA (super) glue?

Project 10: Scratch Built Spaceship

For Project 10, we will be scratch-building a spaceship. This is an exciting process with a lot of steps. To make this easier, I will be splitting this into a number of steps. We'll finish each step before moving on to the next one. Step 1: Spacecraft Model Making The model makers who make spacecraft for film and television are responsible for creating details that bring to life these futuristic vessels. It's a challenge and there are some examples in the history of film and TV that stand out. These videos are all about the special effects and techniques of making model space ships. Step 2: Scratch-Building How To We are going to mostly follow Adam Savage's techniques for making model spaceships. He did two builds exploring the techniques in a lot of detail. Watch both of these videos to gather a more complete understanding of the process we will be using. Step 3: Working with Styrene Working with styrene is different than working with any other material we've enc