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Proven Results
with our Vacuum Forming Tables
Designed for Your Workshop or Home
Five Sizes
$99 - $249
These parts were made with our Vacuum Forming Tables
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“ …  just like the big, professional machines.”
 — Greg Mills, Patent Café Magazine
“I got excellent results.”  — Richard Marmo ScaleWorld
“I was surprised at how quickly and easily everything fell into place. ”
 — Fred DeRuvo, Modeler’s Resource
“ …  a whole new line of vacform [tables] that are intended for the serious modeler. ”
 — Michael Benolkin, Internet Modeler
“Editor’s Pick” FineScale Modeler

Five Sizes
The Canopy Master

3½ inches x 3½ inches
(8.89cm x 8.89cm)
Vacuum Forming
$99

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The Kingston Micro

4 inches x 6 inches
(10.16cm x 15.24cm)
Vacuum Forming
$119

Read More About the Kingston Micro, affordable vacuum forming for custom chocolate mold makers, engineers, designers, inventors, modelers

The Kingston Junior

6 inches x 8 inches
(15.24cm x 20.32cm)
Vacuum Forming
$149

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The Kingston Mono

8 inches x 10 inches
(20.32cm x 25.40cm)
Vacuum Forming
$199

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The Zeppelin Master

11 inches x 16 inches
(29.94cm x 40.64cm)
Vacuum Forming
$249

Read More About the Zeppelin Master, affordable vacuum forming for engineers, designers, inventors, modelers

Custom Sizes

Contact us with
your size requirements
 
 

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Mighty-Mini Globe-O-Former

When you need tiny,
custom-sized domes,
hemispheres, ovoids, etc.
 

Read More About the Might-Mini Globe-O-Former

How I made my Knight Bus with Vacuum Forming Chocolate Mold Making with warmplastic.com


What Is Vacuum Forming?
You place a sheet of warm, slightly melted plastic over a three dimensional shape (a pattern). Then you remove the air from between the pattern and the warmed plastic with a vacuum.

The warmed plastic cools down and stiffens very quickly and retains the shape of your pattern. Now you have a plastic part in the shape of your pattern

What is Vacuum Forming?

 

Blister Pack

You have seen vacuum formed objects all your life. For example, those products that you see in the stores packaged in a clear plastic bubble attached to a cardboard are called blister packs and the plastic of those blister packs have been vacuum formed.

If you are a chocolate maker, the molds you pour your melted chocolate into are vacuum formed.

Vacuum forming is used by modelers, hobbyist, prototypers, engineers, inventors, costume makers, chocolate mold makers and others.


The Two Most Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Do your Vacuum Forming tables have a vacuum source?
A. No.
Our Vacuum Forming tables cost a lot less than expensive vacuum forming machines because you provide the heat source and the vacuum source, a household vacuum cleaner.

Q. Do your Vacuum Forming tables have a heat source?
A. No.
Our Vacuum Forming tables are affordable because you provide the vacuum source and the heat source, a conventional home oven at a temperature of 350°F (175°C). Alternately, you can use a paint stripper heat gun such as Makita's model #HG1100; or an electric hooded radiant type paint remover such as Warner's model #382.

More Frequently Asked Questions


How to Vacuum Form with our Vacuum Forming Tables

Set your oven to 350°F (175°C

  • Set your oven to 350° F (175° C)
  • Connect your home vacuum cleaner to the Vacuum Forming table
Place your patern on the work surfac

Place your pattern on the work surface

place the plastic into the oven

  • Put the plastic in the frame. (the frame and a generous amount of plastic are included with your Vacuum Forming table)
  • Place frame on blocks in the oven (the blocks are included with your Vacuum Forming table)
Heat <tr>the plastic until it droops
After about 90 seconds in the oven the plastic will get warm and will begin to droop

turn on your vacuum cleaner, press down on the frame
  • Hit the "on" switch of your vacuum cleaner
  • Lay the frame with the warm plastic on your pattern
lay the warm plastic on your pattern

Press the frame down
you have vacuum formed
You now have a plastic copy of your pattern


Here Are Photographs of the Vacuum Forming Process

Vacuum Forming a Mask


How much “draw” can our vacuum forming tables handle?

To answer that question we vacuum formed this big box.

 

We were challenged to vacuum form a large, deep box. So we built a 6" x 10" plywood box and which was 6" tall. We made sure the sides were tapered about 5° so that we would be able to more easily pull it out of the plastic.

 

 

 

Big Box Vacuum Formed

Big Box Vacuum Formed

 

We used
  • the Zeppelin Master vacuum forming table
  • 1/8" styrene
  • and a 15 year old, 3 horsepower Eureka™ Mighty Mite home vacuum cleaner

The results were terrific.

 


Frequently Asked Questions

If we haven't explained things to you well enough, please contact us. Email us at mailroom@warmplastic.com or call us, toll free at  (877) 560-6398 or Click here for additional information on how to contact us.

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