Seal Plastic Without an Impulse Sealer

Since i am making a DRD pack (Drink version of MRE), i decided to make this instructable seeing that noone else made a similar instructable. It's so easy, you can seal 10 plastic bags per minute! Plus, it's watertight!

Step 1 Gather your materials

Materials Needed:
* Candle (or lighter)
* Plastic Bags
* 2 BBQ sticks
* tape
* Common sense

Disclaimer: We will use a flame source in this experiment! take extra precaution and NEVER EVER EVER do this when you are drunk!

free of any legal restrictions, lets begin!

Comments

[echang4]

I was going to make a wooden wakizashi, one of those short katanas, and I wanted to laminate it. Would this let me do so?

[beehard44]

not sure : /

[iectyx3c]

Does the pinched end burn off? Not sure how this works, but it looks like a practical and fast way to seal bags.

[beehard44]

the jig that pinches the plastic kinda seals it while you are melting the plastic and it also prevents the plastic from melting too far in, making a hole. Just remember once it starts melting, put it off the flame immediately

[rimar2000]

Good work. I use polyethylene or acetate bags, which I cut and weld simultaneously with the soldering iron. I use a guide, usually straight, over a wooden or cardboard sheet to protect the table. Sometimes I put over the plastic a piece of paper (any dry paper serves, it can be a newspaper sheet or printer sheets) to prevent the melted plastic from sticking to the solder.

[beehard44]

This is how we do it here in the Philippines. I watched my siblings make pili nuts and they package it like that