/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.253716]

flattening plastic Australian notes? ironing's out of the question; melting problem obviously

[Anonymous No.253724]

Hair dryer to warm em up and get them flexible, then place in between the pages of a book and place something heavy on it.

[Anonymous No.253726]

In canada got 50s and 100s in plastic recently.
Fucking sweet, except fresh bill stacks kind of stick together.

polite sage for not offering advice

[Anonymous No.253736]

>>253724
cheers ill try it
>>253726
aww thought we were special hah

[Anonymous No.253738]

>>253736
We were first to use them. That's gotta count for something, right?

[Anonymous No.253750]

>>253726
We're going through our first summer with plastic money, they've been melting in hot cars.

[Anonymous No.253756]

>>253750
>yfw your 100 bucks melt ;_;

[Anonymous No.253763]

>>253750
lol what idiot designed those plastics???

>hurrdurr lets make money that melts under ordinary circumstances, im sure no one will be upset...

[Anonymous No.253764]

>mfw smelling the new Canadian $100
Maple syrup, motherfuck who thought of that!?

[Anonymous No.253770]

>>253763
subversive govt way of dealing with inflation.
Make money dispose of itself because of structural integrity

[Anonymous No.253778]

Some Aussie notes have been plastic since the 80s, and since the mid 90s every note switched to plastic.

If they don't melt in Australia, they ain't melting in Canada.....and indeed a brief google shows that the melting point of new canadian notes is ~140C.

tl;dr - don't believe news media.

[Anonymous No.253783]

Plastic notes are awesome.

> MFW I forgot to empty my pockets before washing my clothes and end up with fresh, lightly scented bank notes instead of paper mache.

[Anonymous No.253785]

>>253750
>We're going through our first summer with plastic money, they've been melting in hot cars

In Canada?

We've had them for a couple decades in Australia, and I haven't heard of any melting in cars. I daresay it's a trifle hotter here than in mooseland.

Possibly your government went for cheap plastic or something.

[Anonymous No.253787]

>>253763
The same idiots who are now generating income making plastic notes for foreign countries and exporting them from Australia.
>Very tough and long life
>Washing machine proof
>Harder to fake

http://www.rba.gov.au/banknotes/production/polymer.html

[Anonymous No.253788]

>>253716
You can iron them, just be careful. Put a tea towel or something in between, use low heat and lots of steam. Also keep the iron moving so you get even heat

[Anonymous No.253793]

>>253783
I've left US bills in my laundry before. They came out just fine. Then again US money isn't made of "paper." It is made of cotton instead of wood.

[Anonymous No.253794]

>>253793
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question108.htm

Normal paper -- including notebook paper, newspaper, construction paper -- is all made out of cellulose, which comes from trees. The trees are chemically broken down into their individual wood fibers, and the cellulose fibers are chosen and formed into very thin sheets to create paper.

Paper money, on the other hand, is made from paper made of rags. Cotton or linen fabric is beaten to create cotton or linen fibers. You have probably heard of "rag paper" or "fine linen writing paper." This is where it comes from.

It turns out that rag fibers bond together much more firmly than fibers in regular paper. Rag fibers are basically unaffected by water, whereas cellulose fibers absorb water and come apart when they get wet. So paper money comes through the washer just fine, while cellulose paper comes unglued.

[Anonymous No.253798]

>>253788
I second this. Use any kind of towels and sandwich the bills in between 2. You don't even need steam.

Conversely stick the bills in a big fat book.

[Anonymous No.253802]

>>253787
dont get me wrong, i think the plastic money is a brilliant idea - but at the same time if that plastic melts in a hot car then the idea basically turns to shit....

dont feel so offended, bitch

[Anonymous No.253804]

>>253802

It doesn't melt in a hot car.

Its like ice cream, its plastic.

[Anonymous No.253805]

>>253802

It doesn't melt in a hot car.

Its not ice cream, its plastic.

[Anonymous No.253820]

>>253805
My ricky Martin cd's would disagree with you.
>>Life is rough when you've got
>>First World Problems

[Anonymous No.253823]

>>253820
Different plastics melt at different temperatures. There's also where you left them in your car and what color the plastic is. If you left black plastic on the dash board of the car in full sun and it was lower melting temp plastic then it'll be completely melted. White plastic that is higher temp melting will reflect the light and not melt at all.

[Anonymous No.253832]

An Australian friend showed me one of these notes, I'd never seen it before, it was awesome :D They are really tough too!

[Anonymous No.253835]

>>253820

>know post is trolling by saying ricky martin anything
>still

[Anonymous No.253837]

>making your money out of a precious, finite resource.

[Anonymous No.253844]

>>253837
>finite resource.

You can make plastic out of plants now. Haven't you seen those water bottle ads.

>DASANI ® PlantBottle™

Which is utter horseshit, because now we can enjoy mountains of plastic trash literally for as long as plants can be grown on this planet instead of until oil runs out.

[Anonymous No.253860]

>>253837
but nearly everything is a finite resource. lrn2entropy

[Anonymous No.253890]

>>253844
Plants never go away, those fuckers.

[Anonymous No.253909]

>>253860
It's the constant amount of energy/matter described by the first law of thermodynamics that makes things finite, entropy is a different issue and is described by the second.