Making molds of a part or 2

yup finished them up and am waiting on the electrician to finish wiring up my vacu form... if he doesn't hurry up and get here soon it'll be too late for him and I'll just wire the darned thing up my self. if I do gimme some prayers when I flip that 100 amp 220 circuit on. I'd like no major melt downs to happen. while I THINK I have it under control I'd still like an electrician to double check me. I have it broke down into a main panle in garage going to a 100 amp sub panel with 3 30 amp breakers in it. then it runs to 30 amp plugs in the wall so I can unplug it from tyhe wall and store the darn thing out of the way when not in use. I only have 2 zones for heating right now using 220 contactors that are activated with 110 current just like on an electric stove. I made a little one with one zone a couple of years ago 2'x2', but sold it to a R/C guy for him to make clear cockpit windows for his bigger planes thinking I had no more need of it. ^&*^&% mistake! BUT it will turn out ok, just BIGGER now that I'm redoing it to make what I need now and hopefully in the future. no I'm not selling this one. darn thing cost to much to rebuild again.

I will add the 3rd zone to make a 5.5-6 foot long heater that will make LONG parts as time and money allow (I wanna make ABS consoles(12"x 53"),custom curved door panels(18"x44") for my darts AND recover my darn spare cracked and ugly dash pads (54"+) in 4 way formable vinyl not plastic!) Burt that's in the future . right now I have enough on my plate trying to finish up these projects .



Anyway here is a shot of the current project and future stuff I'm working on for my car and hopefully others. sitting on the finished 2'x2' platen that will make the parts if I ever get it wired!


I had to put a backer board on the parts to help in removal once I do use them to make the plastic parts.AND make them easier to cut out of the plastic sheet

it's a little under 2 inches total kickout, so with speaker grill on there it should be about 2 1/8 total kickout (I like it cause I can re locate the wire clip on the sidewall of the car and route the wires near the speaker and not have it bulge out when installed. (I hope)
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here's the next project to make plastic pieces for
Front splash shields for the 66 dodge dart. (it toolk a while for me to find a good set that wasn't rotted) now to reset the shape to the correct bends. when the bondo kicked it curled up a little(a LOT really 1"+), have to address that. and of course make it MUCH stiffer. there's a lot of foam there to compress and I don't want that to happen so I have to put in supports once the shape get's tweaked back in.

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next up is a glove box liner for my dart. left side of picture.I darn sure didn't like the repop ones and I was able to get a couple of good ones to use in my cars but they are fragile for a 40+ year old part. soooooo I made this one from a good liner. (used a LOT of bondo for that.. dang gotta go to the swap meet and get some more of that 14.00 cheapy stuff again.
A little smoothing and a backer board to help mount it and cut it from the sheet plastic and it's ready to go!
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whew. lot's more to do!