ABS Ivory
- Thread starter ymiryang
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Meucci used it for many many years.
It's still available on the market today in rod form. Some people also use it as a capped ferrule. It don't play to bad. It's not really ABS ivory. Just ivory like in color.
Hope this helps.
Do you mean ivory colored juma?
No Sir....ABS.
What Meucci had was more yellow than what's available today. What is offered thru plastic suppliers is 3/4 solid rod and more translucent.
I also thought that the old stuff was a special make of ABS, but I bought the stuff that came out of his son in laws closed factory and the guy called it PVC. He called all those Meucci style plastics PVC, but he could have been mistaken on what they really were. I didn't use those types for anything but ferrules, so I saw no need for the joint and butt stuff and just bought all the ferrule rod. But I now kick myself for not buying it all. It is really needed now for repair work as I just can't find the exact stuff anymore.
ABS is "Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) (chemical formula (C8H8)x· (C4H6)y·(C3H3N)z) is a common thermoplastic polymer. Its glass transition temperature is approximately 105 °C (221 °F).[2] ABS is amorphous and therefore has no true melting point.
ABS is a terpolymer made by polymerizing styrene and acrylonitrile in the presence of polybutadiene. The proportions can vary from 15 to 35% acrylonitrile, 5 to 30% butadiene and 40 to 60% styrene. The result is a long chain of polybutadiene criss-crossed with shorter chains of poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile). The nitrile groups from neighboring chains, being polar, attract each other and bind the chains together, making ABS stronger than pure polystyrene. The styrene gives the plastic a shiny, impervious surface. The polybutadiene, a rubbery substance, provides toughness even at low temperatures. For the majority of applications, ABS can be used between −20 and 80 °C (−4 and 176 °F) as its mechanical properties vary with temperature.[3] The properties are created by rubber toughening, where fine particles of elastomer are distributed throughout the rigid matrix."
ABS is a terpolymer made by polymerizing styrene and acrylonitrile in the presence of polybutadiene. The proportions can vary from 15 to 35% acrylonitrile, 5 to 30% butadiene and 40 to 60% styrene. The result is a long chain of polybutadiene criss-crossed with shorter chains of poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile). The nitrile groups from neighboring chains, being polar, attract each other and bind the chains together, making ABS stronger than pure polystyrene. The styrene gives the plastic a shiny, impervious surface. The polybutadiene, a rubbery substance, provides toughness even at low temperatures. For the majority of applications, ABS can be used between −20 and 80 °C (−4 and 176 °F) as its mechanical properties vary with temperature.[3] The properties are created by rubber toughening, where fine particles of elastomer are distributed throughout the rigid matrix."