Yes, You Can Vacuum Form EVA Foam! (Part 2 Layering) 

RU-vid magic brought me here at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="180">3:00</a>am and i never even heard of vacuum forming before. That was beyond awesome

Thank you for this! Super cool. Also, thank you for leaving in the errors and learning portions. A young toddler that I take care of happened to be watching the video with me, and they’ve been struggling recently thinking that they need to be perfect at an activity before they can do it or enjoy it. It was incredibly valuable for them to see a professional encounter a problem and not be perfect, and that making mistakes is okay and normal and just part of the process. Great lessons on many levels :)

This is just amazing! I can't believe how much detail shows even through the EVA foam. This is a game changer for making helmets without having visible seams everywhere. Beautiful work, you are a genius! :)

I found the ability to reuse to EVA fascinating, also appreciated that you showed the temperatures you were working at.

Fantastic demo- so many applications beyond props/costuming. Thanks.

Very good demonstration of vacuum molding. Thank you.

Thank you so much for these videos. I was scrolling and found this video. I have to say, when I clicked I didn’t have high hopes but your style and teaching is amazing. I have so many ideas and will have to go back through your videos to learn.

Awesome and inspiring. I have a Roman Patrician guard armour to make plus some more fantastical elements. I had not quite realized how much I want a vacuforming setup.

My dad always talks about his friends vacuum forming business from the 80s. Never really knew what all went into the art. Thanks

WOWOWOWOW this is AMAZING the detail looks PHENOMENAL IM SO SHOOK

This rocks! I can't wait to put this to use. Thank you for the inspiration!

The ABS quality and detail is REALLY impressive. Nice one!

Thanks for the tip of covering the material while heating when the temps are cold out. I've struggled with getting a good heat in the corners of my plastic, and this excellent tip could be a game changer for me. Cheers!

That abs pull was impressive. Also big thanks for the vacformer plans.

Love this video man! So informative! I'll soon be moving from an apartment to a house with a garden, so I'll be able to use these techniques :D

Wow, that's so informative. It's a long way from everyone hiding their skills and methods of the past. 10 stars and a new sub for you.

Very nice, very nice work!

That Looks great. Thanks for sharing this.

Thank you, For making a tutorial video. It was great and really helpful

FYI Sometimes when I’m vacuum forming I will keep one or two heat guns handy so when I set the frame down on top if it seems the EVA is cooling down too much I just use both heat guns and then the details really suck down

Really cool! Thanks for sharing!

It’s really nice!

My first visit to your channel but I am very impressed with your creativity and your passion. As for the flightline thing... lol My wife and I live in the flightline of McCord airforce base.

Awesome video! Hope you do more

fantastic proof of concept

Love your videos!

This is really cool, I hade no idea that you could vacuum EVA... makes sense. 🤔👍

Fascinating!!! Thanks!

Well done getting that plug out.

Literally like watching you do magic tricks over and over it is just so incredibly smart to do this I wish you were actually standing in front of me so I could come give you a pat on the back for making and sharing this video really really really really impressive sir

We both said “wow” at the same time. 😂. Thank you so much fir this video. Just great!

Super cool!

Great video 👍

Outstanding work

Interesting, thanks for sharing the video. Cheers!

This is such a cool video! I really like your channel. :D

RU-vid fairy and some 🌿 got me here. I'm starting to believe you could build the Titanic with a 3D printer and a vacuum former.

Great video. Thanks for sharing! Hope you're doing well!

What an enjoyable and pleasant time! Thanks for your initiative. Subscribed! Oh, indeed;)

Thanks man, you are great!

Fascinating 😮

Love the RU-vid alogrithm sometimes...wonderful video

first time I see eva being used like this, very good, thanks for the video. For more complex parts, perhaps it would be interesting to preheat the mold as well? I thought that the thermal shock being smaller, more details can be obtained. hugs from Brazil

Brilliant 👏 👏

First time viewer. : ) Im at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1170">19:30</a>min and just woooWWWWW! That looks amazing and has so many other application!

Nice project. And I like the black truck pic there

when the face melted back down into a flat pool like the T-1000...i subscribed!

Awesome idea….!

Great video

muy bueno el video excelente idea felicitaciones

great stuff, love your enthusiasm, +1 sub. Thanks for your time!

Great videp

awesome!

Use an air compressor and spray/clean up nozzle that just shoots air. Stick it in and shoot air into mold to loosen

that is how I like sculpture!

Great!

Thank you, 👍 super

nice !

I don't even know what the videos about but I gave a like for the moustache bro.

Hot damn.. It works!

Game changer

fantastic . beautyfull tanks .

thanks from venezuela

that is awesome... ish great video lol

You can make your vacuum table with a valve and an air evacuation pump with a compressor to pull the material down tighter that the vacuum alone

tutorial for the vaccum former would be sick!!

Since you're in Dallas, you should come visit our studio!!!

Great

This is incredible I've been 3d printing props for the next ccon but this, this opens up so many possibilities for unibody pieces without seamwork using 3d printed parts to create the detailed work instead of eva for the second press. What is the maximum temperature for these items before they reform while wearing? Can I do a epoxie resin layer inside to hold shape?

thanks

This is invaluable. Thank you! I do have a question, though: can I use really thick (10-15mm) sheets of EVA for vacuum forming? My concern is, at that point it will be hard to heat it up evenly. Have you tried it?

Whats missing is the person that you took the mould off, is not trying on the caul. Rad how strong that final coal really is. Im looking to use your style on final product mechanical/automotive designs. : )

My mind is racing with the possibilities. small details sandwiched between the foam that you can make on a 3d printer.

I vote for a series called "Will it Vacuumform"

that mustache is perfect bro

I've been dialing in this set up and I think it should be mentioned that the space heater is not of the greatest build quality. I was playing around with it and it didn't last two hours. I ended up doing some poking around the Q&A part of the Amazon listing and they said it was a common problem with just the power light working and nothing else. However, I did find an answer that said that it had in inline 15amp and that's what needs to be replaced and seems like an easy fix if you have some wiring know how (apparently this is the overheating safety feature that the listing crows about mightily.) I've ordered another and I'll probably have our family handyman have a look at it and maybe upgrade the fuse so I'm not constantly having to do returns or multiple purchases. All this said, I greatly appreciate the tutorial and all the instructions and I did consider maybe starting a new heat trough from scratch but I've already gone this far and I don't feel like switching horses, donchyaknow :)

cool

I wonder if a wider table for your heat and vacuum would help you a little. instead of reaching the right handle (over the heat source) if it were rotated 90° you could grab both handles and move right to place on the vacuum. I'm thinking a 1/5 to 3/4" plywood would be enough just placed on top of the current table. although you'd have to check it for balance.

Amazing video thanks alot, what is the power of that vacuum machine you are using? Also Have you tried thin lexan with any of your projects? Thanks again for the informative video

Please make a full body size one for carbonite ;)

Man for a moment i thought your face shield was a door but then i red the logo.

Some Stormtroopers are going to be really happy.

Question: I see on the vac table it's just a single opening instead of the peg board you usually see. Is that something specific to this method or is a single opening more efficient?

Heeeeere's Johnny!

use an air compressor to blow it out, makes it alot easier to release it from the form.

Remember, when your vacuum winds up really loud and fast like that, it actually is working less hard than when the rpms are low and quiet. You can verify this with an amp-meter.

I like

amazing video sir, can i know what foam is that head made of? the one you made from the cosplayer

Wow

I miss my projects

Will it still work fine if you used a more traditional vacuum table top that has a bunch of tiny holes drilled out compared to the one big hole your table has?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="535">8:55</a> Blue ice is always better than yellow ice! 😂

What temp are you hearing the foam at? Sorry if I missed it

Can you possibly drill tiny holes in the areas where you need more suction

I haven't seen part 1 yet so if the answer is in that video I apologize. A Brother Scan N Cut can work with materials up to 3mm thick. You could design a cut file to make the precision cuts in advance so that when you load the cut EVA foam onto the form it will result in a ready made vacuum formed shape. Then you can use the cutter again to make the augmentations, glue them together to create the thickness you want. In the end things should look more professional with uniform quality. But how would you go about creating the cut file in 2D space so that it conforms to its new 3D shape after being vacuum formed?

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Have you considered using the super shiny automotive wraps to layer on the masks?

Abs even on 3mm thick is cutting very good with only métal sheet cisors you Can also use compressed air to blow in between or in a hole in one eye for exemple ... nice vidéo intresting technique anyway but please if you Can espacialy when you speak about détail making more close UP shots of you work it's hard to see in large view

wow

Are you able to form that in clear styrene so it can be painted or colorized from the inside leaving a flawlessly smooth finish? If you just want to leave it at that stage without the ABS! Does ABS come in clear or is there another material that can be used in the same way?