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Originally Posted by Christ
If it's not stiff enough to be self-supportive, you can "glue" pieces to it (if it's ABS) by soaking bits of it in acetone for a few mins. They'll turn spongy and gooey, and as the acetone dries, the plastic hardens back up. It only works with ABS, though, that I know of.
Good temp = 200* I think. You don't want to go much higher than that, but you want it pliable enough to lose it's elasticity (memory), so that as it cools, it will "remember" the new shape, without being stressed into form.
A good, thick reference book with about 20# on the back of it should be sufficient to weight it down. Do a few heat/cool cycles to get the stress all the way out of the plastic, and you should be golden.
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Yeah I cant wait to go to my girl friends house and get this going (believe it or not she has a drimmel tool and I don't...
) but I will go over there and start to shape it the best I can with that and then I will look at how the grill piece I have in now is bolted in and go from there on design. I think this will turn out really cool and not too un-natural looking.
I DO have a question though... should I just make it a flat piece or should I kind of point it like the bumper and hood are anyways? I will put up pics asap to make it easier to understand what I mean