ilikemy944

The vacuum things that form r/c car bodies that you can buy and make your own bodies out of a mold. Can we use a normal cover as a mold, and vacuum the lexan to it to form a cover? Anyone ever use one of these?

Ian Carr

My school has one i'll talk to him on monday and see what what we can do (i belive it is big enough for the belt cover.)

-Ian

NZ951

Excellent thanks Ian.

Ian Carr

Sorry had to leave school early today for eye doctor stuff... wasn't that fun ill make sure to get to it tomorrow

-Ian

z3bra

It would probably be better to pull a mold off an existing cover with resin. You'd have to drill that out to use the resin cavity as a negative mold. (Bondo to the rescue.) It's not OEM quaility design sure but it's only a plastic cover for hell's sakes.

Here's a quick and dirty how-to on a homebuilt vacuforming setup.

http://www.sci-spot.com/Mechanical/vacu.htm

Since lexan has to get hotter before it's formable, it might be a little more involved to do it and have it look good but I think that using 1/8" lexan a stout heatgun would probably do the trick. Since this would be a somewhat large piece a frame would pretty much be a necessity.

Humboldtgrin

Thread resurrection: I had one, someone broke it at the shop I was storing it at. See the photo.


See it?

951and944S

You should have just resurrected, said you wanted one too, sat tight and waited.

Maybe yours would have showed....

T

Humboldtgrin

Ok. I want one too.

rlm328

Its clear so no I don't

Humboldtgrin

transparent.