Hockey Table 'innards' Vacuform Start?

[stevenlyeater]

i have an old hockey table with the pucks and the paddles missing and one of the score screens are broken but the fan works fine and i took it apart to check it out and it has one big fan blowing upward and i was wondering if i took the playing surface off and flipped the fan would it be enough suction for vacuform atleast to me it seems like it would be perfect given the table is already made and there is alot of space under the existing playing surface.. would it be worth my time and money to try it out? cus i have no molds and only about half the materials atm

 

[Samuray]

i have an old hockey table with the pucks and the paddles missing and one of the score screens are broken but the fan works fine and i took it apart to check it out and it has one big fan blowing upward and i was wondering if i took the playing surface off and flipped the fan would it be enough suction for vacuform atleast to me it seems like it would be perfect given the table is already made and there is alot of space under the existing playing surface.. would it be worth my time and money to try it out? cus i have no molds and only about half the materials atm

My guess is that it's not going to be enough power to vacuum form, but you might be able to figure out a way to get a shop vac hooked up to it in such a way that it'd work.

 

[stevenlyeater]

yea cus underneath its just a big funnel with a fan at the bottom im sure i could rig it up

 

[Samuray]

yea cus underneath its just a big funnel with a fan at the bottom im sure i could rig it up

That should be sufficient, probably. I mean, it depends on the surface area of the table, but I've seen make-shift vacuum forming tables that used shop vacs.

 

[Sean Bradley]

Loose the fan, rig up a powerful shop vac or vacuum pump, drill twice as many holes and you might have the start of a decent vacuum table. You'll still need a over for the plastic though.



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