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Quick little vacuum former nozzle for mini shop vacuum by tymm
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Last crawled date: 4 years, 8 months ago
This is a vacuum nozzle I threw together for some small vacuum forming tests.
This is made to be used as a nozzle on a mini shopvac. It's designed to use one of the cheap electronic perfboards that can be purchased on ebay as the stage (gives nice airflow), and a hot air rework gun as the heat source. Use a small sheet of styrene as the forming material.
Capacity obviously is very limited; I was using it to make form-fitting blinds for custom LED / photodiode sensors.
Note that there is assorted support material as part of the design that will need to be removed for use.
This is made to be used as a nozzle on a mini shopvac. It's designed to use one of the cheap electronic perfboards that can be purchased on ebay as the stage (gives nice airflow), and a hot air rework gun as the heat source. Use a small sheet of styrene as the forming material.
Capacity obviously is very limited; I was using it to make form-fitting blinds for custom LED / photodiode sensors.
Note that there is assorted support material as part of the design that will need to be removed for use.