Vacuum Forming-Machine

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:26 pm

atkafighter wrote:One website (I can't remember where it was) suggests sticking the plastic in the oven.

You're thinking of studiocreations.com,

Sparkfist wrote:I've seen a machine that has the plastice in a frame attached with a hing that you move over from the heating element to the vacuum former.

and you're thinking of this place: http://members.aol.com/KMyersEFO/vacuum.htm.

SNESguy · Post by **SNESguy** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:35 pm

I built a vac-form table for my second SNESp, here is a pic of it:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/snes1115/ ... pg&.src=ph

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Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:47 pm

snesguy were did you get the instructions to buyild that kind of vac form table? im really tired of using mine mostly because its too small and heating plastic in the oven sucks

SNESguy · Post by **SNESguy** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:46 pm

Well, I first saw the vacuum form table made by that guy at halloweenofear.com (whatever that site is), and that was what gave me the idea.

The table I made was entirely of my own design. I designed it to be much simpler to make than that other guy's.

It uses two pipes to hold up the heating element instead of a custom wooden frame.

For the heating element, I just used half of an electric grill from Wal-Mart.
Wally World somehow always comes back into the conversation!

Post by **Triton** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:28 pm

those electric grills dont get hot enough to properly melt polyproplyene tho, i need to get some styrene and ill make some snes cases to sell, maybe. i assume some people are still interested?

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:00 pm

http://www.tk560.com/vactable4.html I would build this, but I dotn have access to a welder.

xriverfalconx · Post by **xriverfalconx** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:17 pm

soundwave wrote:http://www.tk560.com/vactable4.html I would build this, but I dotn have access to a welder.

That's an awesome table!!!

Thanks for the link! =)

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:48 pm

Whoa thats leet! By the way turbo unless your making super sized portables then that thing its way to big its like industrial sized

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:49 pm

Whoa thats leet! By the way unless your making super sized portables then that thing its way to big its like industrial sized

EDIT: sorry double post