i appreciate the plastic PEEK, because not only is the abbreviation a word, it also stands for polyetheretherketone which is just silly
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it's not a terribly interesting plastic besides its high temperature rating though
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It's interesting to turn on a lathe... it reacts far more like wood than a lot of plastics do, so it chips off nicely instead of having long strings that shear off and wind around everything as you work like Acetal or UHMW does.

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