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Old 03-21-2013, 08:28 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by brucey View Post
Decided to do a quickie on my day off with some of the same coroplast I used originally. Missed the modding days.

Anywho, I think the angle is better on it this time, will let someone smarter than me be the judge. Can you heat up coroplast to make compound bends any easier? I'm ok drilling into the hatch for a permanent connection and making the shape good, but mine always wants to just get a crease. I know there have been bondo/fiberglass ones, but coroplast is cheap and if I could just get that bend on it would look/perform fine with very little time involved.
I wouldn't try this in the kitchen oven,but if you constructed (threw together) some sort of insulated box,with some heat lamps inside;you could experiment with a scrap of the plastic.
The trick would be having a wooden mold to blow,or vacuum the plastic onto or into to create the shape.
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