Kydex shrinkage

 

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04-09-2013, 01:58 AM

Kydex shrinkage

I have been functioning on a IWB for a 1911. The gun and journal mildew here came out respectable for my very first try with .080. Today I determined to tackle the belt clips and was utilizing .a hundred twenty five kydex. I utilised the very same oven as I did for the other molds.
I minimize two three/4 X six in strips for the clips and heated them little by little up to 325 for three minutes. When I eliminated the strips from the oven they seemed smaller sized than before heating. I calculated them and they had in truth shrunk by two inches size smart. Is this standard and just very poor planning on my element or did I mess up in an additional area.

04-09-2013, 03:16 AM

RE: Kydex shrinkage

Wow. That's gotta be a negative b atch. By no means listened to if it shrinking that much

04-09-2013, 03:eighteen AM (This post was very last modified: 04-09-2013 03:33 AM by linos.) RE: Kydex shrinkage

it does shrink,
it also elongates if it helps make sense...lower your strips the other way...when i get the Orange .080(i need to have 4x5 parts) from knife kits if i reduce it lengthwise(4x5) it shirks but gets wider so i minimize it the other way(5x4) and as an alternative it elongates(the 5 inches are much more essential than the four in my case) i hope i make feeling if not i can put up pictures LOL
each and every time you get a new butch reduce it a bit greater than you need to have at initial to see how it will behave
PS i forgot to say it will elongate following you press it from the other facet...at minimum mine does...

04-09-2013, 10:00 AM

RE: Kydex shrinkage

Are you using a single of people tiny toaster ovens? If so the shrinkage can be bad with them. All the open ing and closing the doorway is not a good point and neither is the "slowly and gradually deliver up the temp". I pre-heat to 310, toss my things in and then in five minutes or when you begin to odor it the things is accomplished.

04-09-2013, twelve:41 PM

RE: Kydex shrinkage

When I'm just doing a few belt loops at a time, I throw the warmth gun on them for a moment or so. I warmth them up, flip them over right after 30 seconds or so and into the B.L. Jig and there carried out. Just my two cents .

04-09-2013, 04:fifty nine PM

RE: Kydex shrinkage

I find the scaled-down the piece the less complicated in excess of heating happens. How I do mine is reduce a 3x6 inch piece rating my three/4x6 inch strains for four loops. Then place them in the vise crack them but do not crack them all the way off. Then they go in the oven when heated I put them in my jig. After amazing crack them off in the vise. It offers nice square loops with a lot much less chance of shrinkage.

04-09-2013, 11:31 PM

RE: Kydex shrinkage

Eyesight Holsters it was a complete dimensions oven (nice spouse) i did nonetheless open up the doorway a handful of instances to examine on them. Many thanks for the advise I will have to attempt it a couple of moments. Guess there is a even bigger finding out curve than I believed.

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