D.I.Y. Phone Case

 Getting bored with your simple phone cases? Why not remodel your phone case? There’s no reason why you have to have a cellphone case that looks like everyone else’s. Just about everyone is carrying around the same phone these days, so it gets a little difficult to stand out. Designing and creating your personalized  cellphone case to suit your own tastes is an interesting way of showing a little bit of your own personality every time you pull out you’re  phone to make a call. So whether you are a creative genius or you just like to have a go, there are heaps of ways of making your own cellphone case personalized just for you.

You will need and prepare:

Pressed dried flower

Flat, solid phone case (any color)                                           

Flat and level work surface

Parchment paper or magazine will do

Clear craft glue

Tape

Scissors

1 wooden sticks (Popsicle stick)

1 clear plastic cup

Q-tips

Weighing Scale

Acetone

POLYKLEAR Clear Casting Resin

POLYKLEAR Hardener

Glitter (optional)

Tupperware

STEP 1.

ARRANGE THE FLOWER

Let’s get started by placing your flowers on your phone case and arrange it as you desire. If you want to add lots of flower see to it that they don’t file up higher 1.55mm approximately or you won’t be able to properly coat the phone case in the resin. Once you have found your desire arrangement and look, take a picture or snapshot for reference. Then remove the flowers and set aside.

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   STEP 2.

ATTACHED THE FLOWER

Dab a small amount of glue on the flower and carefully glue it in the case. Follow suit with the rest of your flowers until your arrangement is complete.

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STEP 3.

PREPARE THE RESIN

Make sure you are in well-ventilated area.  Cut a piece of parchment paper or magazine paper with your scissors and tape it in your flat work surface to avoid mess. Have your wooden stick ready for stirring. Pour 10 grams of resin in clear plastic cup, then add 1 gram of hardener. 

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 Then start to stir the contents of the cups using your wooden stirrer for about 2 minutes. Make sure to scrape the side of the cups. If you like to add a glitter, sprinkle some and mix it now (optional).

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STEP 4.

POURING RESIN

Pour slowly a small amount of resin at the center of your phone case.  

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Then, spread the resin close to the edge of your phone case using your wooden stick or Popsicle stick. Make sure that the resin does not go over the edge. Add more resin to the phone case until the entire back of the flowers are covered. If bubbles will appear just lightly blow.

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Set the phone case aside and cover it with Tupperware to protect it from dust and insects until it dries. If any resin spills on the edge, dip Q-tips in acetone and wipe clean.

Once your first coat of resin is dried, examine your phone case to make sure all of your flowers are properly coated. Add a second coat if needed.

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And you’re done!

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Composite and Sports

Composites industry is blooming and almost everything in different industries have been showered by its lustre; from shipbuilding to aircraft automobile; from housing fixtures to fashion accessories & more!

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It has also invaded the world of sports from sports shoe to protective gears to sports accessories and equipments. This material constitute over 80% of the sports equipments used especially in Olympics. These paraphernalias are either made by fiberglass or carbon fiber with epoxy resin.

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Various benefits like being light weight combined with rigidity, vibration-absorbing capacity and hard wearing, impact resistance, watertight and low cost are a few of the advantages that amateur, professional sports and sports enthusiasts desire for when it comes to their sports buddies.

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Take for example the pole in one of the most interesting Olympic event, the pole vaulting. In the youngest years of Olympics, pole vaulting utilized bamboo then aluminum. These materials however decreases the vaulter's running speed which allows him/her to vault lower plus the energy it wastes as it straightens up which also helps the vaulter to reach their goal. Hence the turn to composite materials which proved to be lighter than the aforementioned materials.

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The pole of pole vaulting sport is composed of filament wound of fiberglass core wrapped with woven carbon fiber and epoxy resin as the second layer and the outer cover with unidirectional carbon fiber and epoxy resin.

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Another sports that has been invaded by these incredible matter is archery and tennis whose bow and racquet equipments respectively are embodied with composite materials like carbon or fiberglass and epoxy resin. These materials give the gears their rigidity and the ability to absorb vibration as these sports require during action.

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No matter what the sport is composite has its raid not only in macro scale industries but also in sports where application of these matters are unthinkable but with the innovative power of the human mind has made it possible and the aim to perform at their best. 

The Polyklear Composites welcomes all inquiries, comments and suggestions. Leave us a message and we will get back to you immediately. You can also email us at inquiry@olympus.com.ph. 

Smile

More often than not, most of us get our teeth filled by dentists and few are blessed with teeth that don't decay no matter what they do! But a beautiful smile that projects neat teeth is everything that matters.

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In the early records of dental filling, Amalgam, one of the materials used for tooth restoration after decay damages the tooth, is composed of liquid mercury, silver, tin, and copper. This material had been used for more than a hundred and fifty (150) years. It is also referred to as “Silver Filling” because of its appearance.

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Another material used for tooth filling is Composite Resin or “White Filling” which is a tooth-colored plastic, again used to reconstruct decayed teeth. This was developed in 1962 by combining epoxy resin and methacrylic acid with silanized quartz powder.

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The material for your dental composites consist of resin matrix (organic content), fillers made of either quarts, ceramic or silica (inorganic part), and coupling agent.

Having a composite resin offers a couple of advantages and disadvantages, as well. First advantage is that dentists can easily blend shades to create a nearly identical color as that of a natural tooth. Second, composites offer adhesive property to your tooth supporting the remaining structure which helps prevent breakage. It also provides insulation from excessive temperature changes.

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The disadvantage is that you may experience sensitivity after. The color of your filling can also slightly change especially when you drink tea, coffee or other staining foods. You can somehow talk to your dentist which filling to use for your comfort. Composites somehow tend to wear off sooner than Amalgams in larger cavities, though they also work well with smaller cavities.

Although, composites have a life expectancy an average of two (2) to ten (10) years.

The Polyklear Composites welcomes all inquiries, comments and suggestions. Leave us a message and we will get back to you immediately. You can also email us at inquiry@olympus.com.ph.