25 Apr
2012
25 Apr
'12
8:37 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Sander Reiche wrote:
On 25 apr. 2012, Gene Buckle wrote:
Here's a site that goes into it a bit:
http://www.studiocreations.com/howto/vacuumforming/index.html
Essentially, you heat up a sheet of plastic until it becomes "droopy",
then press it over a positive mold that has a shopvac pulling air through
it. When the plastic seals over the perimeter of the mold, it goes
"thunk" and you've got a bit of plastic sucked into the shape of the mold.
g.
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Cynde Moya wrote:
Could you elaborate on this? Maybe a website with this procedure
explained for unenlightened people in the World of Plastics(tm)?
How do you guys manage long-term storage of your
paper tape collections? Are there any fatal errors, like would storing them upright for a
long time cause a bad enough slump in the paper to prevent readability? Do you keep them
out of the sun? What about aftermarket identification labels on the leader, how thick can
this become before the tape doesn't work any more? What other problems have you seen?
It would be pretty trivial to build a vacuum forming mold and use ABS plastic...