I stopped in the other day in search of some acrylic sheeting from their scrap bin.
First off, if you drive south on Delashmut from 5th Avenue and don't take a good look around until you get to the 1349 address, you won't see American Plastic. There is a row of businesses that share the 1349 Delashmut address and American Plastic is at the western end of the building. You can easily see their store if you're traveling east on 5th Avenue, but if you're heading west on 5th Avenue... well, you have to be a wee bit more alert.
Secondly, I thought I had a complaint about these folks. Years ago I had a strip heater that I used for bending acrylic sheeting. It disappeared sometime in the past 15 years or so, and while I was at American Plastic I decided to get a new one.
The new one is nicer than my old one, in that it came wired. When I bought the new heater and my other stuff, I didn't pay a lot of attention to the costs of the individual items. When I got home, though, I saw they'd charged me $46.95 for the strip heater.
My recollection is that I paid somewhere around $19.95 for my old strip heater, so the $46.95 price of the new one seemed awfully high. Before calling and complaining about the price, I decided to see what Amazon.com was charging for the heater. Turned out the exact same heater from the exact same manufacturer is $55.00.
I guess I'll just have to get used to the fact that strip heaters cost more than they did when I bought my old one (sometime around 1980).
As always, the folks working at American Plastic Distributors were very friendly and very helpful. read more