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mr2monster
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 Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:02 am Post subject: Got bored tonight... |
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and needed a form of instant gratification. So, I went down to Wal-Mart and picked up a 6X6" baking pan, a vac nozzle connector, 2 $3.00 photo frames and some For Sale signs....
about an hour later (after drilling about 100 holes in the pan) I drilled it down onto a piece of plywod and put duct tape between the pan and the wood (high tech, i know). Drilled a hole in the center of the plywood and started heating the For Sale signs on my propane grill...
W00T! My first vacuum pull... Haha... I was lacking creativity on what to pull a mold of, so this is what i ended up with..
A wrench, and a hat!
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jegner
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: |
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CJanssen
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: |
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theres no turning back now 
I say your first pull is creative, mine was 2 blocks of wood and a hammer |
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mr2monster
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| CJanssen wrote: | theres no turning back now
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I'm afraid of that... I'm already thinking of ways to improve the machine I haven't even built yet....  !
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Stomper
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| CJanssen wrote: | | theres no turning back now |
LOL... especially with that vac-formed wrench! 
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cod
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:48 am Post subject: |
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you should vacuform a vacuform machine
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mr2monster
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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| cod wrote: | | you should vacuform a vacuform machine |
Hey now... you might be onto something!
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TK 109
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Wow... just, Wow... 
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jzawacki
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Wow is right.. I got inspired by this post and decided to do the same thing.. So, I headed over to the dollar store and picked up a few of the same items.. Unfortunatly, my attempt was not near as successful as yours, but I did learn about 100 things that have been talked about on here and it's just not the same as experiencing it yourself. So, I started off by overheating the plastic, realized you have to be careful when touching the hot plastic (I put a dent in it), then realized my frames were made wrong (grabbed some wood and screwed them together), etc..
But, on the good side.. I did learn that my current progress is right on track, as all the "wrong" things I did last night make it obvious why the design I am building is the way it is..
Thanks for the nudge to actually do something. |
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