[Sneap] plexiglass control rods

[Krause, Bob]

Brian,

For years we have always made our own joints for our control rods. Our
acrylic rods
are 1.5" in diameter.  We jig them in a mill and cut the joint on both
piece's at 15
degrees. This makes the joint approximately 6.5" long which maximizes
the surface area 
for strength at the glued joint.  The acrylic glue that's been used is
acrylic glue
weld-on #3.  The only lengths that I have found are 6 foot. Two
suppliers that you might
try are Cope Plastics and McMaster Carr.

Good Luck

Bob Krause
Kansas State University
James R. Macdonald Lab.

-----Original Message-----
From: sneap-bounces at tunl.duke.edu [mailto:sneap-bounces at tunl.duke.edu]
On Behalf Of schmidt at nucmar.physics.fsu.edu
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:07 AM
To: sneap at tunl.duke.edu
Subject: [Sneap] plexiglass control rods

The host for the 2008 SNEAP annual meeting is the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor.  The meeting dates are: October: 12 - 17, 2008.
The meeting web link is:
http://www-ners.engin.umich.edu/research/Mibl/Sneap/2008.htm

Can someone help me out with a supplier of plexiglass rod to use as
control
  rods in our FN tandem. I need rod 108 inches long and suppliers I find
  only supply in lengths up to 96 inches.
                                    thanks, Brian Schmidt
                                            Florida State Univ.
                                            Tallahassee, Fl

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