FORMcard is a handy, pocket sized card of strong, meltable biopolastic that you can use to make, fix and modify the world around you. Just drop it in a cup of hot water and it's ready to use. Keep one in your wallet, toolbox or kitchen drawer so that it's always around when you need to fix something.
They melt in a cup of hot water. Once it's cooled it's ready to use so you can fix things quickly in emergency situations, like when a handle breaks on a tool, or a button falls off your jacket. They are strong like nylon, not rubbery, so they can be used for long-lasting solutions.
If you don't like what you've made or you're finished with something you've made, you can just melt it back down again. Great for making toys when your kids grow up!
So if you take them straight out of a cup of hot water you can use them to fix broken plastic toys, tools, or anything that normally gets thrown away that they will stick to.
We have worked closely with both the chemical company, the moulders and even the colorant suppliers to ensure this is the case, even to go as far as rejecting the use of universal pigments which contain styrenes in favour of powder pigments. This is messier for us, but better for you and everyone else.
The plant making the raw material is one of the biggest in the world (weird but true) and through friendly negotiation with moulders in the U.K. we have found a price that is as economical to production in the far east once import / export costs are taken into consideration. But this is only achievable if we have enough orders, which is why we launched on Kickstarter.
Normally, these types of thermoplastics are supplied in granulated form, which makes them awkward to use; the granules have to be squashed together, which is messy, wasteful and sometimes even painful. This has restricted their use to people who are familiar with making things, but I believe that this material has a place in everyone's kitchen drawer, tool box and back pack, like Blu-tack or Selotape, so I developed it into a flat card form, that would always be around and always be ready to use. The size and thickness of the card is exactly right amount of material for the quick types of fixes that are needed.
FORMcard fits in your wallet and it fits in a cup, so you can take it and use it anywhere you can find hot water. It's quick, clean, simple, instant and fun to use.
FORMcards are made in different colours which makes them fun to use in different situations, like camo green for foresty people, fluo orange for high visibility fixes and crazy mixed colours for people into zombie apocalypse / alien invasions.
We'll be posting more tips and projects at:
www.formcard.co
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