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August 16th, 2007

Tutorial videos on working with plastics

Tutorial on working with plastics
Here’s a ton of videos that show you how make various molds, bend plastics, glue plastics, polish plastics, and much, much more!
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July 2nd, 2007

How to make a cheap and easy vacuum forming table

Home-built plastic vacuum forming table
Here’s a cheap and easy to build vacuum forming table that you can easily put-away when you’re not using it!
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June 30th, 2007

Home built heater for plastic folding

The results from using the home-built plastic bending heater
Here is a home-built heating strip that allowed the creation of bent acrylic panels for a custom panel in a computer.
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June 29th, 2007

Make your own plastic action figures

A home-made action figure created with Sculpey polymer clay
How to make your own custom action figures using Sculpey III polymer clay.
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June 23rd, 2007

Make custom tools with Friendly Plastic / Shapelock

How to make custom tools with Friendly Plastic
Here’s a good how-to showing how you can use the low temperature plastics called Shapelock or Friendly Plastic to make custom tools.
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