The two main components of our homemade vacuform machine are complete and now it’s time to put them together and connect the wiring. Before we can test it, we’ll have […]
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With the heat box complete, we now have a way to heat our plastic! But in order to shape it for our projects, we’ll need a good vacuum box. We’re […]
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After tearing down our old toaster oven, we now have 4 heating elements and some electronics we could repurpose for our vacuform machine. Using roof flashing, aluminum angle (L-channel) and […]
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We’re tearing down my thrift store toaster oven to harvest the 4 heating elements inside as well as the electronics so we can build our own custom heat box for […]
Continue reading "Heating Elements from an Old Toaster Oven"Build a low-cost vacuform machine from thrift store items, a shop vac and hardware store supplies for your character, electronics and cosplay projects.
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