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 Topic: Build in progress |
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| anakinjay Replies: 8 Views: 3960 |
 Forum: Vacuum Forming & General Stuff Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:28 pm Subject: Build in progress |
| (for making car body panels, bike parts, etc..)
. I would love see what the results are from this I have been wanting to do the same. I'll let you know. The big table is quite a ways away thoug ... |
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| Topic: Build in progress |
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| anakinjay Replies: 8 Views: 3960 |
Forum: Vacuum Forming & General Stuff Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:58 am Subject: Build in progress |
| hehe..
my interpretation should be interesting... as I'm not buying the 600 heating coils they want, I'm going to try to make the oven with nichrome wire instead. |
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| Topic: Build in progress |
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| anakinjay Replies: 8 Views: 3960 |
Forum: Vacuum Forming & General Stuff Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:05 pm Subject: Build in progress |
| I chose 24x24 because when all is said and done, I want two tables... one 24x24 and one 48x96 (for making car body panels, bike parts, etc..)
The plastic sheets come in 48x96 size... so if I want ... |
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| Topic: Build in progress |
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| anakinjay Replies: 8 Views: 3960 |
Forum: Vacuum Forming & General Stuff Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:32 pm Subject: Build in progress |
Been a long time coming. 
Next up is the oven. in retro spec, I should have painted the oven... the oven btw, is made from two solid pieces of 1/4 inch steel, bent into ] shapes, and there's ... |
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| Topic: How hard is it to use MDF as molds? |
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| anakinjay Replies: 6 Views: 10770 |
Forum: Imperial-Armor.Com Q&A Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:44 pm Subject: How hard is it to use MDF as molds? |
| In that picture above.. do you use bondo to fill in the gaps between the wood pieces? or did you form it right like that?
And yes, THANK YOU.. that helps a lot! |
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| Topic: Oven Check |
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| anakinjay Replies: 7 Views: 2773 |
Forum: Vacuum Forming & General Stuff Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:18 pm Subject: bah |
| Damn dr. crash!
I didn't think about the vaccum pump. I'm not using a vac, but I'm using one of those 4.5cfm surplus pumps you posted about. Do you think those use more than 5 amps? I have no ... |
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| Topic: Oven Check |
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| anakinjay Replies: 7 Views: 2773 |
Forum: Vacuum Forming & General Stuff Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:29 am Subject: Oven Check |
| Thanks!
Thats exactly the kind of help I needed! I see here: http://tinyurl.com/yws7bq (now that I'm reading the boxes right) that if I reduce the segments down to 2 and have two circuits ... |
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| Topic: How hard is it to use MDF as molds? |
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| anakinjay Replies: 6 Views: 10770 |
Forum: Imperial-Armor.Com Q&A Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:32 pm Subject: How hard is it to use MDF as molds? |
| How hard is it to learn to sculpt MDF into molds? I'm fairly artistic... And I think I could easily get just the general shape down, but some of the finer details (the gap inbetween the chest, the h ... | |
| Topic: Oven Check |
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| anakinjay Replies: 7 Views: 2773 |
Forum: Vacuum Forming & General Stuff Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:30 pm Subject: Oven Check |
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Finally getting ready to order the parts for my oven... I'm trying to make a two circuit version so I can spread it across two breakers... So (110v 1200 watt) x 2 using these calculat ... |
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| Topic: Surplus 4.5 CFM Thomas oilless piston pumps $85 + $9 S&H |
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| anakinjay Replies: 23 Views: 7312 |
Forum: Vacuum Forming & General Stuff Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:05 pm Subject: thanks! |
| Thanks for the tip!
I just picked one up! it shipped yesterday. Can you give us some more details about the wiring? edit: Also, I don't see them on his page anymore... I might have got the ... |
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| Topic: Question About Pumps & Measurements |
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| anakinjay Replies: 3 Views: 1807 |
Forum: Vacuum Forming & General Stuff Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:45 am Subject: :) |
| Awesome!
as far as the tank goes, my buddy (same guy) is an awesome welder and when I show'd him the tank someone built themselves here he said that'd be easy. We already have the metal bent and p ... |
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| Topic: Question About Pumps & Measurements |
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| anakinjay Replies: 3 Views: 1807 |
Forum: Vacuum Forming & General Stuff Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:20 pm Subject: Question About Pumps & Measurements |
| Ok guys, few quick questions...
A buddy of mine has a vac pump he's willing to give me if it'll work. He plugged up the hole and ran it to see what kind of vacuum it'll make. This is where I ge ... |
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