PVC is a material that has number of useful features. This makes it very valuable and widely used – typically, you will see it as some kind of protective covering. It works as a good covering because it is waterproof and it can protect items or areas from the elements. You will see it used as tarpaulin, a marquee, lorry side curtains and as a cover for boats and caravans (among plenty more applications). It is also cheap to manufacture and can look attractive too, making it a very useful material to use. You will see a lot of PVC coated fabrics now being used as a protective sheet – to create these sheets you will need a special set of tools to join and hem the materials together.
The tools and machinery that is used for plastic welding are not like any ordinary tools you may have lying around. For plastic welding you will need a range of hot air tools, as these can create strong, reliable welds that can last a lot longer than what you would get with an adhesive or solvent. There are a number of top quality PVC fabric welding hand tools that are available, all of which allow for high quality results. This will usually be completed with a heat gun, which is well designed and easy to use too. There are also PVC fabric welding machines. These machines are best used when a large covering is required, the type that you would ordinarily see in a sports hall or covering a tennis court.
In addition to PVC fabric welding, there are also plastic welding tools that can be used to weld a number of different plastic types. This includes plastics such as ABS, HDPE, MDPE, LDPE and PP as well as number of thermoplastics. For plastics that are thinner than 8mm, this can easily be carried out with plastic welding hand tools and for any plastic that is thicker than this you will easily be able to complete the task with an extrusion gun. These extrude a thicker bead of plastic, and this helps to weld plastic sheet and structures together. There are also handy tools such as a hot knife cutter, than enables you to easily cut through all kinds of plastic whilst ensuring it is a clean cut with no fraying.
For all of these tools and machinery it is important that you get them from established, trusted hot air tool suppliers. This way you can be sure that you are getting the best tools and ones that will easily allow you to make plastic welds. This could be for tarpaulin, a protective covering, for a banner, a lorry side curtain, a roof membrane, vinyl flooring amongst a huge range of other applications. These tools can be a lot more effective at joining structures than a solvent or adhesive, and they are also easy to use as well.
