🖤 Mold your masterpiece with ABS power!
This pack of two black ABS plastic sheets measures 8" x 12" with a sturdy 1/4" (6mm) thickness, featuring a textured front and smooth back. Engineered for superior tensile strength and impact resistance, these thermoformable sheets are easy to cut, heat, and mold, making them perfect for a wide range of DIY, craft, and professional applications.
T**N
Sturdy material that is easy to work with. Avoid heating as it is a petroleum-based material
These are great for random projects or fixing things that might need a customized piece to support it, or hold it together. The boards are usually the strength I need and easy to shape and cut. The only item I will had as a word of caution, is if you are using any kind of high-speed saw to cut it, the friction generation will heat up the plastic and release petroleum based fumes. I am a chemist so I know my chemical smells pretty well. Not sure if the fumes are toxic, but better to have a fan to redirect the fumes, or just do all the cutting outside. I use both screws and bolts to secure it to another object or to another plank. Anyway, I've been ordering these years for good reason: fabricate custom pieces for mechanical support or build something original with my kids. Highly recommend.
L**T
Easy to handle
Item as expected. Also, Easy to cut and handle.
M**Y
Great texture that blends well into existing automotive interiors
This is a very high-quality quarter-inch-thick ABS sheet from a conscientious supplier. As advertised, the shiny sides are protected by a cover sheet. Also, as you can see in one of my photos, the corners of the sheets are protected by guards for shipping.After buying another brand of quarter-inch-thick ABS to add an instrument sub-panel to my Mazda, I found that textures on plates from other suppliers are wholly unsuitable for blending remotely close into pre-existing OEM automotive interiors. As seen in my other color photo, the “Other Brand” plate at right has a very coarse and directional texture that is never seen in automotive settings. Moreover, despite the texture’s coarseness, it was ridiculously shiny on both the crests and troughs of the texture.👍 However, as you can see in the left-right comparison image, the Kaitela plate has a finer random texture with a duller sheen, making it highly suitable for add-on sub-panels in automotive instrument panels so they don’t stand out like a sore thumb.As denoted by the orange arrow in figure 4, even the finer texture of the Kaitela plates—relative to competing brands—is still noticeably coarser than Mazda dash components… and it is likely coarser than most other automotive dashes. Note the OEM textures surrounding the newly added instrument sub-panel. But Kaitela’s texture doesn’t stand out like a sore thumb.A note regarding plate thicknesses: I recently purchased ABS plates from two different suppliers on Amazon. In the case of ⅛ʺ-thick plates, I’ve found they are close to 0.125ʺ. But twice now, the “¼-inch” thicknesses have been within 0.0015 inch of 6.00 mm (0.236–0.2375ʺ vs. 0.250ʺ). This disparity isn’t worth docking any stars, particularly since the plates are advertised here with a parenthetical “(6mm),” but the plates actually appear to be “hard metric” where the inch dimension is the approximation; it’s a detail to consider for exacting applications.👎 The only real downside is my Kaitela plates had a noticeable waviness on a 1½ʺ pitch (see the B&W photo), which is a significant downside if you expect to have the shiny side exposed. However, I wouldn’t dock the Kaitela even a half-star over this because I suspect most buyers will want the textured side facing out.
E**.
Will buy again!
I recently purchased the KAITELA ABS Plastic Sheet 12" x 16" x 1/4" Thick (6mm) Black Rigid Moldable Thermoplastic Board for a home DIY project, and it exceeded my expectations in both quality and versatility.Durability and Strength:The 1/4" (6mm) thickness provides substantial rigidity, making it perfect for structural applications. Despite its sturdiness, it's lightweight, which made handling and installation straightforward.
J**N
John's review
Easy to cut, just make sure you get the proper jig-saw blade.
D**D
Great product!
These 2 plastic sheets arrived packaged extremely well. Not only were they shrink wrapped together, but all 4 corners had corner guards on them to prevent chipping while in shipment. The sheets themselves have one smooth side, and one textured side. The smooth side also has a peal-able plastic cover to prevent scratches. I used one of these sheets to make an adapter for a GPS car mount, and didn't need the texture - in fact I was using epoxy so I needed a flat surface. The texture is fairly shallow so it was easy to sand off with an orbital sander. The sheet cut easily and cleanly using a jigsaw with a laminate blade. I'm very satisfied with these plastic sheets. If they were a little less expensive, it would be even better!
K**.
Great as a mounting board for car amps
A little pricey, but worth the money. I used these ABS panels to make a mounting board for my car amps. The material is extremely strong. I used threaded inserts, which you heat-set into the material (with a soldering iron) to create an attachment point for a machine screw. The 1/4" panel was thick enough to use with the M5 inserts just fine. Highly recommended.
J**N
Good stuff
Used for mounting buss bar in sxs works awesome easy to work with yet stout
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