On 25/02/2021 12:12, Fredxx wrote:
On 25/02/2021 09:23, Chris Green wrote:
Jimmy Stewart ... wrote:
is Paxolin the same as bakerlight ? ...

No, not if my memory serves me right.

Paxolin is the sort of stuff that tag boards and early printed circuit
boards were made of. I.e. it's brown and sort of laminated.

Bakolite is an early plastic that was used to make moulded items like
plugs etc. It's often dark brown but doesn't have to be, it's quite
hard and doesn't melt, it chars if you make it very hot and smells.

I'm assuming here that while the name Bakolite has been used this refers
to the more common term Bakelite? The difference being through confusion
of trade marks.

While Bakelite is a resin, the items we see called Bakelite are actually
also a moulded laminate though can be any filler.

Paxolin is a normally a sheet with paper as the filler material, or SRBP.



Ah bakelite.....!

Its the trade name for phenolic resin which is made by a reaction
between phenol and formaldehyde.

Was developed around the 1910's by Leo Hendrik Baekeland following
previous work by Adolf Von Baeyer and the General Bakelite company was
founded in 1910.