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Vac forming windows at home. A short tutorial

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Re: Vac forming windows at home. A short tutorial

Postby HomeRacingWorld » Mon Oct 10, 2016 2:55 pm

Priceless. Well done. And uses material we ALL have access to.
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Re: Vac forming windows at home. A short tutorial

Postby TuscoTodd » Mon Oct 10, 2016 6:44 pm

I think I see a winter project on the horizon!
Great info Dave - definitely appreciate it!
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Re: Vac forming windows at home. A short tutorial

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Re: Vac forming windows at home. A short tutorial

Postby Wobble » Tue Oct 11, 2016 4:21 am

Today was a good day. I learnt something new today. Thanks for that ShotgunDave
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Re: Vac forming windows at home. A short tutorial

Postby HomeRacingWorld » Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:31 am

This is the kind of information that just helps those DIY types out there. I will be featuring this post on the site, FB, etc and invite all of you to do the same.
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Re: Vac forming windows at home. A short tutorial

Postby RV Racing » Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:40 am

Another outstanding Shotgun how-to. Thank you!
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Re: Vac forming windows at home. A short tutorial

Postby BARC 1 » Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:41 am

Very good informative post. I do that exact same thing for the vacuum forming I do.

Another source for plastic is your recycle bin. Our weekly shopping results in more then enough clear plastic to cover my needs. Especially good is the clear containers used for fruit and in my supermarket they even package leaf lettuce up in large plastic containers. All of this clear plastic is ideal for vacuum forming windows as it has a low temperature melting point and is easily formed using the technique Shotgun demonstrated.

I model in 143 scale and because of the size I use the Diecast car with the windows in place as the plug. The result is a perfect fit in in the resin copy shell that i have pulled from the same diecast.

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Re: Vac forming windows at home. A short tutorial

Postby HRWJim » Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:48 pm

This is great stuff...thanks
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