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Originally Posted by BlackGold6.4
Oh yeah..  so many possibilities, I also want to try working with poly-carbonate sheets or something like that cause there's so many options. That's for other parts of this Aero-Ram mileage improvement plan...  |
Some university: Solar, Shell Marathon, and SAE competition racers use polycarbonate 'bodies', vacuum-formed in local commercial sign companies near campus.
They have pretty enormous electric 'pizza-ovens' which soften the sheet until it 'droops', then it's quick-clamped over 'drilled', hollow wood or medium-density fiberboard female tooling, connected to a valve-sourced vacuum- accumulator.
Once the hot plastic hits the tooling, within a couple of minutes, they're ready for a pin-router trim fixture!
That'll be 'way' fun.