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A Disney Log
February 10th, 2009In preparation for making carbon fiber flowers, I took a vacuum forming class at Tech Shop. Everyone was asked to bring in a part to copy. Then the vacuum former heats up a sheet of CAB (Celulose Acetate Butyrate). This is the same plastic that all those 3d sign letters are made out of - same process too. The plastic gets clamped into a frame, and when it starts to sag, swings over your part. Then you hit the vacuum footswitch and the plastic is instantly sucked into the every nook and cranny. In my case, a log.
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You have to stuff the undercuts of your part, otherwise the plastic gets pulled under and your part is impossible to get out.
The finished log has fine detail, just like a real Disney log.
