File puptcrit/puptcrit.0910, message 267


From: "Mark S. Segal" <segalpuppets-AT-comcast.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:17:04 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] ping pong balls - eyes


Got a suggestion....
don't use those!
I do use ping pong balls for eye bases...
never had a problem...at least so far.
One puppet that I did use them for did get a shattered eye last year...
Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Hudert" <heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:29 PM
Subject: [Puptcrit] ping pong balls - eyes


> Just curious...
> 
> I've used ping pong balls as the base for eyes many times. I just 
> pulled out a box that I store the supply of balls in and found that 
> about two dozen were in various advanced stages of deterioration. Yep, 
> you read that right. Most had turned brown and partially or completely 
> crumbled. Now this is not a bad thing if you are using them for 
> ping-pong and they get damaged. It's nice that they biodegrade. 
> However, if you're using them on a puppet and hope to have them last 
> for a long time, it's not such a good thing. They were Halex brand, 
> still in the plastic they were purchased in (several years ago). I 
> thought at first that perhaps it was the plastic of the packaging that 
> caused the deterioration, but they were stored with others of a 
> different brand that were in the same box and none of the others - 
> including those in contact with the plastic of the Halex packaging, 
> were even discolored.
> 
> Any one else with this experience, or should we just use this as a 
> warning to stay away from Halex brand ping pong balls for puppet eyes?
> 
> BTW, all of these balls are stored in the same cardboard box, so all 
> are equally out of the light and other exposure. Only the Halex brand 
> has deteriorated. I thought it possible, but not likely, that these 
> balls started out as yellow and maybe that had something to do with it, 
> but in closer examination some of the balls are still mostly white but 
> equally deteriorated and breaking down.
> 
> Christopher 
>  
> 
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