History of Bakelite ... By using the standard equipment of Bakelite machines you could make an endless variety of Bakelite forms, for instance, various Bakelite radio cases.  Bakelite was often used to imitate wooden materials and products, for instance, radio cases, cigarette boxes, lamp cases, and so on.
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Bakelite (pronounced /ˈbеɪkɨlaɪt/ ), or polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride , is an early plastic. It is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from an elimination reaction of phe...
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Physics question: How can you make Bakelite into a conductor of electricity? Clean and dry Bakelite is a such a good insulator it would not be possible to ...
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There is reproduction bakelite being made. Some say the old is being melted down to make new. One way to tell is by the pin attachment. Prongs embedded into the piece to hold the pin attachment or tiny screws usually indicate an older piece.
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The Steel Guitar Forum; No Peddlers; Anyone tried to make bakelite? (Page 1) ... Do you have to make bakelite, grind it up, add sawdust of some filler, and then mould it using high heat and pressure?
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Moreover, in addition to a myriad of industrial uses, Bakelite was also extensively adopted to make telecommunications equipment including telephones, for camera, radio and television castings, for toys, jewelry, poker chips, toaster parts..
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The key to this miracle of manufacturing efficiency was this slab of Bakelite moulded with a pattern of grooves and filled with molten zinc - a forerunner of the integrated circuit. It would have taken hundreds of workers to match ECME's output.
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Bakelite, a form of plastics that we associate with kitchenware, jewelry, and radio cases, had it's birth in 1907. Chemist Leo Hendrick Baekeland was working on developing effective insulating material for the burgeoning electricity industry.
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From radios to jewellery, Bakelite is very collectable - but don't be taken in by Fakelite ... "You could make attractive, well-designed objects in mass numbers and, eventually, bright colours as well as the early black and brown."
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