Wing It 101: Fantastic Plastic

In this video Eric discusses plastics.  It turns out that once you get the mold, you can’t just start printing discs.  Regulation drivers have weight limits based on the diameter of the disc.  Based on our disc’s diameter the disc can’t weigh over 175 grams.   We also don’t want it to be too lightweight or the disc will get blown around by the wind, or could even flip when you try and really wing it (which is what you do with a driver).  We found a plastic that we like, it’s nice and flexible, but it’s too heavy.  There is also a lighter-weight plastic, but it’s too lightweight, and too firm as well.  In order for a disc to pass PDGA standers, it has to have some flex to it (If you’ve ever been hit by a disc you will be grateful that they make it have some flex to it).  So we are having to find the right combination between two plastics in order to get the right disc weight.  We need to lighten the disc, but keep the flexibility that the heavy plastic will provide.  Check out the video and Eric will show you what we’re talking about.

So while we have been trying to find the perfect combination of these two plastics, we actually have ordered a third type of plastic that we are going to try as well.  We want to compare what we get with this plastic combo to a third plastic option.

More on that when it comes in but for now, this is Jamin, just winging it.