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Be course you can do a lot of different things with a smooth formed Plastic Bottle, I made a separate article.

Materials to make a smooth formed bottle

Light weight Pet Bottle

Tools to make a smooth formed bottle

Big pan

Protective glasses

Protective gloves

How to make a smooth formed bottle

Wear protection

Safety

Wear protection like protective glasses and gloves


etiquet

Unfolding the bottles

Take the labels off the bottles.
2. Put boiling water in the PET bottles.

Tighten the screw cap on the PET bottles.


bottle in pan

Put the PET bottles in a pan, and heat up so the water in the PET bottles will steam.


unfolding

After a few seconds the heat and the steam will unfold the bottom of the PET bottles.
The botte gets proxematly 10% smaller


WARNING

WARNING - Only steam the PET bottle for seconds, otherwise the screwcap will pop off and the bottle will fold together rendering it useless.


Cool down

Cool down the PET bottles until there is no pressure inside.



before after

Cut the bottle

Now you have a Smooth formed Plastic bottle.

The bottle is smaller.

The surface is smooth formed.

The plastic material is thicker and stronger.

This can have advances, for some use.

You can do a lot of thing with a smooth formed bottle



-solar water disinfection

-protective lamp cap


lamp reflector

-If you glue reflecting material inside you can make a reflector for a camping lamp

3th world F lamp cap

3th_world_arm_lamp

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