Bowls Made From Vinyl Records

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Bowls made from vinyl records.

Comment was this helpful. Buy an armful of cheap outdated vinyl records at your local flea market or at a garage sale and make decorative bowls for everyone on your christmas list this year. Using vinyl record bowls for food while that s awesome artistically vinyl is a very reactive plastic and will potentially leach plasticizer and polyvinyl chloride into the food that s in the bowl. To further protect your baking sheet.

Place the vinyl on top of a smaller glass bowl and put in the oven for about 5 minutes till the vinyl starts to droop into the bowl. Now artists hobbyists and environmentalists are making vinyl record bowls bring them home. Another thrifty present for christmas is to take some old vinyl albums or records large or small and make them into trinket bowls. While the polyvinyl chloride is molten it is especially susceptible to leaching so wearing gloves to make it would be very helpful.

We have also added. This is very important as the melting vinyl will give off fumes that are not safe to breathe in step 2 set a metal or glass heat safe bowl onto a baking sheet. This should not be done in any oven used for food preparation. Vinyl records were the way to listen to music in the decades before cds mp3s and online storage made them virtually obsolete.

Heating polyvinyl chloride releases gas which can leave a permanent residue on the interior of ovens this is done in. Step 1 wash both sides of the record with a gentle soap and rinse and dry it with a lint free cloth. Move the oven rack to the bottom of the oven. Cool ideas on repurposing records is to make it bowls.

We have added a small plug into the hole in the middle of the record to prevent any small items like earrings or beads from falling through. How to make vinyl record bowl. This instructable is about how to make a bowl out of a record. Choose a bowl that is a little smaller than the record and set it right side up onto a baking sheet.

Have a window open or turn a fan on to ensure adequate ventilation. A cookie sheet 3. So instead of your records sitting around collecting dust they now become useful. We made our clocks from old used vinyl records thanks to our passion to music we give a new life for used and forgotten vinyl records we make them functional beautiful and great looking part of your interior also for all eco.

Step 1 preheat your oven to 200 to 250 f 100 to 120 c and open a window. Each record bowl is one of a kind and they are very durable and functional. Heating vinyl records as with making record bowls and cuffs releases phthalates and dioxin which are known carcinogens. This instructable calls for.