vacuum form materials?

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:49 am

I need a good transparent material that I could cacuum form. I need it to be strong. Any suggestions?

SgtBowhack · Post by **SgtBowhack** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:02 am

PETG (Polyethleneterephtalate Glycol) is a good one to use. It's what they use to make things like video tapes, and is related to PET which is used to make soda bottles. In fact, you might be able to just take soda bottles and warm them up. If you layer them, it might give you the strength you need.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:27 am

how would I vac form plastic bottles on a tray meant to hold flat things? >_>

SgtBowhack · Post by **SgtBowhack** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:36 am

You can take a 2L bottle, cut it into a flat sheet (albeit small). Depending on the size of your vacuum form machine it could work. *shrug*
I wasn't saying you should do it, just that it was a possibly cheap source of plastics.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:58 am

And a cheap source of urine, God forbid I ever need that in a portable!

SgtBowhack · Post by **SgtBowhack** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:06 pm

I don't know what store you go to that sells urine in PET bottles

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:47 pm

I meant drinking lots of soda to get just the bottles and producing it myself. >_>

edit: I just realized you were messing around with me. *slaps self*

SgtBowhack · Post by **SgtBowhack** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:26 pm

Hehe. I'm glad you got it eventually. But yeah, the PET bottle thing is not really a sensible idea. You can get PET-G for about $20 a sheet though (and probably use one sheet for potentially multiple cases at once, if you're uber slick...)

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 1:36 pm

Like, two molds (I know that is the incorrect spelling, but i like it that way!) right next to eachother, sucked over each?

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:26 pm

Klefmung wrote:Like, two molds (I know that is the incorrect spelling

... No, it's not...

Anyway, I personally don't see why this wouldn't work. If you just melted the bottles into a puddle of plastic, (maybe on a cookie sheet or something?) wouldn't it harden into a perfectly flat sheet?

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:08 pm

mold is like the stuff that grows on cheese. Mould is the correct spelling for these moulds.

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:15 pm

Huh... really? Learn something new everyday, I suppose... Oh yeah?! Well I'll bet you don't know how to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Wait... crap. You do now.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:20 pm

I bet you know that it isn't a real word.

>_> There goes that smartass thing again. Anyways, can we get back on topic?

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:51 am

It kind of is. Wiki it for the story... anyway, yeah. Topic.