Conductive Plastic

[Atm0spher]

has anyone tried to use some kind of conductive plastic?

[Mindcrime13]

plastic is not conductive

[Painless]

I think that there are some types of neoprene that will conduct.

[insane4evr]

I discovered the hard way that EPDM washers I got are conductive.

Also, those who mold plastics sometimes add carbon to the base raw material like nylon to make their end product conductive.

[Boltazar]

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...p-electrically

[Boltazar]

http://www.injection-moldings.com/plastic/index.php

[Boltazar]

Graphite impregnated plastics and urathanes. Googel and thomas.net are good search engines. I prefir Thomas Register

[Atm0spher]

i was really tryin to see if anyone had tried this

[Painless]

I haven't tried it, but it's surely worthy of some research. I would want to investigate the following areas first though for each material:

1) What is it's electrical resistance, compared to a piece of 316L SS the same size.

2) How does it react to the catalyst of choice.

If the result from 1 is favourable and 2 is "it doesn't" then I should think that it would be a good option for experimentation. Not sure how 1 could be answered though without buying a piece?

[Atm0spher]

ONCE AGAIN PAINLESS THANK YOU. its to bad you live so far away. i shal look in to this a bit more. i have heard of ppl trying this on the beawindhog forums.