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Making Body Shells
hey everyone,
this question is mainly aimed at Jim and G about these low profile S2 shells that was made, ive just purchased a Heat Gun from ebay to use to melt the coke shells ( plastic ) over the wooden molds is that the best way of doing it ? or did you use a different method ? 
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11-02-2008
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Thats the puppy, that, practise and tummy ache from drinking pop!
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11-02-2008
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a good excuse to buy shite loads of 2LTR bottles of coke ! or the Rola Cola and tip it away cos that shiz is nasty
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11-02-2008
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Did you use any vacuum sorce G?
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11-02-2008
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Me and some mates used a vacuum machine at school making wings and shells, great fun but we never got them quite right
never thought of using coke bottles and a heat gun, maube something to try in the future for my own wings.
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12-02-2008
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ive thought about making a mould for a shell of my own design, not sure what the best material would be to make one out of though i've considered wood so far as i have access to a vacform and the polycarbonate or lexan
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13-02-2008
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block of wood, set of basrtard files, sand paper and an £11.00 heat gun from ebay...
im sure theres somwhere you will be able to get 1mm thick plastics from
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13-02-2008
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layers of balserwood ? youd need to use glue and heat and glue dont mix. one block of wood is fine. 
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13-02-2008
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i have made a mold at school for buggy's, anyone sure what the maximum length can be?
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as long as it's not longer than the car otherwise it will look ridiculous
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super downforce
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14-02-2008
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i read tht review of the pirahana p2 didn't he use coke bottles there was a link on the boards to a guide on how to do wings it was a german site but in english i think if not the pictures gave me the idea.i tested it out with an old coke bottle and mums hairdryer worked shrank alright i haven't got round to making a mould i will though cos i like the look of the arishi shells but non fit my b4 so that maybe and option also i'm working on extending an rc18 wheelbase so would need a body for that longer chassis
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15-02-2008
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mdf is good for a vacform mold i think
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15-02-2008
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Yeah MDF is great for moulds on a vacumme former. The school I go to uses it for all of their moulds. I have even made a mould for a wing. It turned out very good but the only downside was the plastic sheets my school has to use . I think it is polythene or something like that. All i know is that it is very brittle. I will get a pic up sortly of my mould.
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