first tryouts on the vacuum-former

Tariq is explaining the basic principle steps of vacuum-forming.
While the machine is warming up for at least 30min...

After heating the sheet of plastic for 180secs the heating-unit is being pushed back.

Pulling the lever moves up the mould. The mould pushes into the soft platic-sheet.
As soon as the bottom level of the mould reaches the machines to frame the vaccum-pump starts to suck out the air.
In this case there is a part where the plastic sheet became to thin, so the vaccum sucked a hole into the sheet.

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