today's work

[Ken_NJ]

The new box in the first few pics, input power and a socket so output power, perhaps for a vacuum connection. Holes, maybe for a vacuum suction? Adding screens possibly for vacuum forming.

Other older pictures show a vacuum forming setup. Hot plate to warm styrene with an old vacuum forming setup. And an older box that looks close to the newer box.

So, must be a new vacuum forming setup. Same pictures on Facebook with no other information.

[DrSchmidt]

OK. That's a load off the table. Thanks. Can I keep the set as parts for my boat? (tooling -- though doable for those items -- would have been, ah, ... Interesting).

Time for my hideous nap. After that, onto the spin casting tool.


David

Sure, those were for you right from the start. I have mine already here on my side of the pond....

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

The new box in the first few pics, input power and a socket so output power, perhaps for a vacuum connection. Holes, maybe for a vacuum suction? Adding screens possibly for vacuum forming.

Other older pictures show a vacuum forming setup. Hot plate to warm styrene with an old vacuum forming setup. And an older box that looks close to the newer box.

So, must be a new vacuum forming setup. Same pictures on Facebook with no other information.

The refinished 'box' is a Barber's vacuum. Ellie pulled it out of pier side Dumpster when I was aboard the YOSEMITY AD-19, working as a Diver. We had just started the business and outfitted much of our shop (a single-car garage in Navy housing) with tools and consumables from midnight dumpster diving at the piers and adjacent base machine-shops. I was a master Scrounger and identified all the model builders and kit assemblers aboard the Yo-Yo and SIMA facilities -- I spent a lot of time digging through metal and plastic discard bins in those shops.





That vacuum machine -- covered in coffee grounds and God-knows-what-kind-of-slim (Ellie was fearless!) -- was liberated from the base over forty-years ago; God knows how long it was aboard a ships 'services' Department before that. It's ancient hardware, but runs good. I modified it by plugging the vacuum inlets, punching a hole in the side (later, as illustrated in my recent post, the hole transferred to the top of the machine) and attached some expanded plat and chicken wire to form air evacuation channels on the plenums face.

Yeah, it's a vacuforming machine. Duh!

[Ken_NJ]

Here is my version that I made years ago (geeze 15 years ago) for small parts. This was before I built the Marlin. I don't know where on my computer those pictures are so have to use this old post on RCG. If I wanted a larger platten for larger parts, I could replace the hardboard with holes with a larger area of holes. Have not used it since then. I did my online research to build it. Worked fine on the first try. Adjustments had to be made to the placement of the parts and filler pieces to eliminate spidering of the styrene around the subject.

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?1306908-DIY-Vacuum-forming

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Why?... because it's my frig'n thread... that's why!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sxaTnAxdkhg?feature=share

[Ken_NJ]

I can't share? I'm promoting and encouraging people they can do this.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I can't share? I'm promoting and encouraging people they can do this.

Ken. Pal. I was not referring to your input on a vacuforming machine. I was defending my inclusion of the chicken clip here, because this is my thread; pre-emptive explanation of 'why'.

No offense intended, Ken. Not aimed at you, just the general audience.

[Ken_NJ]

Gotcha. I misread, misunderstood the order of posts. Thanks!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Gotcha. I misread, misunderstood the order of posts. Thanks!

detente is a beautiful thing.

[vital.spark]

David and Ellie in heaven, you are the Mr and Mrs. Rube Goldberg of R/C Submarine builders! God Bless!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

David and Ellie in heaven, you are the Mr and Mrs. Rube Goldberg of R/C Submarine builders! God Bless!

Yes, we pray to the alter of complexity... not sure if that's a good thing or not, but it's what it is. No rush to hook up with Ellie yet, I still have a bucket-list to attend to.

[Das Boot]

David, Ellie was a looker. I don’t know how in the hell you snagged her. Was she legally blind?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

David, Ellie was a looker. I don’t know how in the hell you snagged her. Was she legally blind?

One would think so.

But, in the final analysis, it was my good looks, charm, intellect, minty-breath, easy going manner, and racial purity that snagged this little Island Girl!

[redboat219]

Filipina beauty.

[redboat219]

it was my good looks, charm, intellect, minty-breath, easy going manner, and racial purity that snagged this little Island Girl!

We have a joke we tell to guys who have wives or girlfriends that are out of their league. "Always make sure to put on a cranial proctector lest she bumps her head."