Tech shop is soo cool! I have look at what the one near me offers, but neither I nor my husband currently have any projets that we can do at the moment. (small home, small children who break things)
This may sound a silly question, but what keeps the plastic from sticking to the objects onto which it is dropped? Is non-stickyness an inherent property of the vaccuform plastic? Are there different weights of plastic available, or is it one type for all applications?
For most things, you don't need any release agent, the styrene doesn't stick. (It only gets malleable, not actually melted into a runny state.) I have put hardened clay, plaster, glass, wood, even other styrene objects through the process. It's worth a test run though on anything weird. So far the only thing i've had actually bond with the styrene in a vacuform is styrofoam (go figure).
And, you can vacuform different thicknesses. The stuff in the images is i believe .040" but this one--according to company documents--will go up to .125", though i can't personally attest to that.
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For most things, you don't need any release agent, the styrene doesn't stick. (It only gets malleable, not actually melted into a runny state.) I have put hardened clay, plaster, glass, wood, even other styrene objects through the process. It's worth a test run though on anything weird. So far the only thing i've had actually bond with the styrene in a vacuform is styrofoam (go figure).
And, you can vacuform different thicknesses. The stuff in the images is i believe .040" but this one--according to company documents--will go up to .125", though i can't personally attest to that.
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