File puptcrit/puptcrit.0605, message 349


Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:07:33 -0400
From: Ron Glasgow <sockdoll-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Vacuum forming


Will Stackman wrote:
> Info on this has been requested in the past.  Here's a
> really simple approach.
> http://www.studiocreations.com/howto/vacuumtable/index.html
> Anyone currently using VF for a project?


Cool... I was just wondering this morning about what it would take to do 
some small-scale vacuum forming. I remember a buddy of mine back in the 
Sixties having a little Vac-U-Form set from Mattel that he used to make 
small model cars and stuff - back when kids were allowed to burn the 
dickens out of themselves in the name of fun and learning. (I didn't 
have that same set but had a Thing Maker and a bunch of different Creepy 
Crawler molds, and still have the scars to prove it.)

Thanks Will for passing along this link, and pointing out the whole 
Studio Creations web site in general - especially the "How-to" section...

http://www.studiocreations.com/howto/


This site may be common knowledge to most here on the list, but it was 
new to me.

Ron Glasgow
Cumming GA
USA


PS
Anybody here ever try recycling two-liter soda bottles by cutting off 
the top and bottom ends, cutting a slit up the side of the remaining 
cylinder, and heating and flattening that out into a sheet to use with 
vacuum forming? Or would that be the wrong kind of plastic? Any cheap 
sources for styrene or other suitable sheet plastic?
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