{"id":254,"date":"2015-10-17T02:42:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T10:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2017-09-08T02:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:52:20","slug":"thermoplastic-vacuformer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Thermoplastic Vacuformer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1854.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-235\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1854-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1854-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1854-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_1854-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was more of a novelty than a practical tool, but still pretty cool nonetheless. \u00a0A shelf on drawer runners holds a thin-ish sheet of plastic up to a nichrome wire heating coil up in the top of the box (lined with cementboard and sheet metal for insulation).<\/p>\n<p>When the plastic is heated, it softens up, and the shelf holding the plastic drops down onto the bottom platen, which has a ton of tiny holes. \u00a0The vacuum pump (under the machine) draws air down through the holes, sucking the plastic sheet down onto whatever is on the platen, creating a &#8216;shell&#8217; over the object.<\/p>\n<p>The whole machine is a pain to operate, because the nichrome heater requires 220v. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have a 220v outlet out in my garage, and kludging a solution to get it running properly is pretty scary, so it mostly sits unused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was more of a novelty than a practical tool, but still pretty cool nonetheless. \u00a0A shelf on drawer runners holds a thin-ish sheet of plastic up to a nichrome wire heating coil up in the top of the box (lined with cementboard and sheet metal for insulation). When the plastic is heated, it softens &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thermoplastic Vacuformer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}