An accelerated method for making a reduced plastic content hybrid polymer pipe or hybrid flat sheets comprising:
- a. initiating turning of a heated mandrel heated to a temperature from 25 percent to 40 percent less in surface temperature than the temperature of a heated polymer, the heated mandrel being turned a rate of speed from 1 to 6 revolutions per minute;
- b. extruding the heated polymer from an extruder at a temperature from 400-460 Fahrenheit without deforming or becoming soluble;
- c. wrapping while compressing a first layer of the heated polymer over the turning mandrel wherein the first layer of the heated polymer is:
- disposed as overlapping wrapping on the turning heated mandrel from one edge of the turning heated mandrel to the opposite edge of the turning heated mandrel until from 70 percent to 80 percent of the surface of the turning heated mandrel is covered with the first layer of the heated polymer;
- and disposing a interstitial layer comprising mesh, glass rope, or metallic wire over the first layer of the heated polymer on the turning heated mandrel while simultaneously laying a second layer of the heated polymer over the turning heated mandrel with a width from 1 inch to 1½ feet and compressing the second layer of the heated polymer into the interstitial layer and the interstitial layer into the first layer of the heated polymer simultaneously;
- d. repeating the layering of the heated polymer and the interstitial layer until a desired wall thickness is reached;
- wherein a quantity of layers of heated polymer are equal to or greater than the interstitial layer, creating a hybrid polymer cylinder;
- e. performing one of the following to form a hybrid polymer pipe or a hybrid flat sheet:
- (i) while hot, removing the hybrid polymer cylinder from the mandrel and forming one of a warm hybrid polymer oval, square, or rectangular shaped pipe therefrom;
- and cooling the shaped pipe to form a shaped hybrid polymer pipe;
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- (ii) while cool, removing the hybrid polymer cylinder from the mandrel forming a round hybrid polymer pipe;
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- (iii) while warm, cutting the hybrid polymer cylinder, setting it flat and cooling it to form the hybrid flat sheet.