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| darkcape:
I am currently building a cabinet and thought it would be cool to have a 3d effect on the marqee or side panel. however I have no idea how to do this. I can mold in clay and have done some metal work with molds but I have no idea where to get plastic to melt down? or aquire it in some kind of raw form? Does anyone know how to do this? I was thinking of making my own trigger joystick also but don't think that I can work in high desnity plastics. Just looking for some side art possibly in the same plastic ice cube trays are in. (doesn't melt well and I'm sure the fumes are toxic) any ideas? |
| Stingray:
Injection molding is way expensive. You might try resin instead. Check some scale modeling sites for more info on resin molding. -S |
| Lilwolf:
slightly off topic here.. but.. is there a solution for recreating in small demand parts? for instance... I have two t2 controllers... and the fire button is worn down. I adjusted them to get them to work... but they don't click back smoothly (but still work). Is there an easy way to create them? I could see some buisness around here for refurb smaller items like that.. |
| jcoleman:
Look into vacuum-molding. It might actually be called "vacuform" or something along those lines. One way or the other, it's pretty easy to do at home from off-the-shelf parts. I remember some article on Slashdot where someone used this method to create a homemade Stormtrooper costume. Coleman |
| SirPoonga:
yeah, vacuum forming is probably the best. There is a book out there on how to make your own manual plastic injection molding machine. But making molds is expensive. |
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