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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?
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?
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.
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.