This work reports measurement of temperatures of the melting drops in the previously designed and
presented melt dripping experiments of thermoplastic polymers. A simple heat transfer model has been
used to compute the surface temperatures of the polymer sample at various furnace temperatures and
thus the temperatures of the molten drops dripping from the melting surface. The model has been
validated by experimental results. The temperatures of the molten drops could help in predicting the
degree of degradation in a polymer during melt dripping. By conducting thermogravimetric analysis of
both the polymers and their molten drops, a degree of degradation could also be predicted. The values
obtained from both approaches have been compared in order to understand the melt dripping/degradation behaviour of polymers.