Re: TI-H: nifty idea...


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Re: TI-H: nifty idea...




This didn't make it the first time, sio here goes again.

On Mon, 2 Mar 1998 20:52:55 -0500 Larry1492 writes:
>I am not entirely familiar with vaccuum forming windows, but you take 
>something (clay, wood...) and make a mold of the object that you wish 
>to form.  (The mold looks the same as the object)  You heat up the 
>sheet of plastic to a point where it is no longer stiff, but more like 
>tissue paper in rigidity.  While hot, you wrap this plastic around the 
>object mold you made.  I believe vou can do this in an oven, I am not 
>sure how to do the vaccuum part.  When I make slot car bodies, I have 
>a wooden buck of the chassi, heat the sheet of plastic with a personal 
>space heater (1600w?) then rub it down over the wooden buck.   
>~Larry C
>Larry1492@juno.com
>
>On Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:55:11 -0500 "Robert Brack" <reb@netride.com> 
>writes:
>>
>>Point me towards a web site.  Also, how do they make them?  Can I 
>make 
>>a
>>custom case (not clear) that looks cool by the same method?

>>

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