Bulk supply of polystyrene plastic and a small Vac-form box

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Hi everyone, I'm just putting this out there to see if there might be an interest. I'm trying to get rid of some of the things I will never use in order to get a small wooden kit on my bench. If anyone has an idea what this is worth, please let me know :) The thicker clear plastics are all covered with protective plastics however the thinner clear stuff
has none. If it could go all in one shot, it would be a blessing!

96 white sheets 8.5 inches X 12 inches .022"
65 clear sheets 8.5 inches X 12 inches .03"
23 clear sheets 8.5 inches X 12 inches .01"

3 sheets white 17 inches X 17 inches .03"
5 sheets clear 17 inches X 17 inches .015"
1 sheet clear 17 inches X 17 inches .03"

18 clear sheets 12 inches X 16 inches .03"
09 white sheets 12 inches X 16 inches .03"
04 clear sheets 12 inches X 16 inches .025"
01 white sheet 12 inches X 16 inches .022"

Aprox. 60 sheets of various thickness made up of the above plastics cut to roughly 8" x 8.5" and a few odds and ends of mixed sizes
and finally....a small vac form box . The opening is aprox. 7 x 6.5 inches with the frames being 9.5 X 9.75 inches

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Bah I just saw this. I have been wanting a Vac. forming set up for some time now. I was going to build one a few years back but I lost the plans I had to build it when my hard drive crashed. I was unable to find those plans again. I built a foam cutter that was on bearings like a sled so I could hot wire cut foam blocks into sheets for airplane builds but I never got around to making the Vac. former it was from the same person as I bought the plans for the foam cutter.
 
The one I had was designed so that the plastic sheet was sandwiched in a hinged section. I guess it was useful with a hot plate....heat up, turn on vac and swing closed. It also came with reducing sheets of ply so one didn't have to use a whole sheet of plastic. I will dig for the plans
 
that's awesome about the reduced sheets the one I had plans for used a whole sheet for even a small piece. No rush for the plans Brother when you find them that's cool but don't go to a lot of effort. We all have busy lives these days I have learned to be a very patient person.
 
A vacuformer is easy to make. The perforated window liner from a microwave makes an excellent and usually free bed. Wiring up two or more vacuum cleaners to go on at the same time can help a lot for bigger stuff. There are lots of plans on the web. For ship model size stuff, the old Mattel Vacuformer is a small and usually inexpensive workhorse. Check eBay- these were almost mythical and expensive items before the internet! I invested in the upgrade parts from:
http://www.gaugepods.com/vacuform/parts.htm
and mine works great the two or three times a year I use it. And it is small.
 
I bought a heavy duty shop vac. to use for the one I was going to build. At the time I was needing it for Model airplane canopy's for 1/72 scale war planes. I was successful at carving wood forms that I would epoxy to a 1/4 X 14" dowel I heated plastic from packaging outside in a toaster oven and would quickly push the form I made into it till it wrapped around then trimmed it off when cool and had a nice canopy the problem with doing it that way was only 1 in like 20 tries would be successful without going so far I punched a hole or not far enough fast enough to form the whole canopy. I decided to buy plans to make a former and I lost the plans when My hard drive crashed.
 
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