First, I hope everyone's 2009 haunt season is going well.
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I run a 21,000 s.f. live-action walk-through gaming event every year, and I have a HUGE hassle every year of setting up 500 4' x 8' panels (on an aluminum pipe and drape skeleton) in 24 hours inside a hotel ballroom. I have used a variety of wall panels, but after many years I have come to the conclusion that I would like to MAKE my own true 4' x 8' vacu-form wall panels for the event. Having a large library of these walls would work out very well for me. Also, since my patrons are gamer nerds, they are awesome customers and they never damage the sets...so I can go with much thinner substrates than most haunts. I am hoping that this fact will make the machine easier to build.
I am looking for any advice about how to go about making a gi-normous vacu-form that can accept perhaps up to 5' x 10' sheets so that they can reduce down to 4' x 8' finished panels. I am not needing anything industrial as I am not making panels for selling -- only my use.
I also own a sign shop so I can get the various substrates at a good price, but my experience with vacu-forming is about nil. Are there any books anyone would recommend about vacu-forming in general, and does anyone have any info about making something this large?
Anyway, any info or tips would be much appreciated.
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I run a 21,000 s.f. live-action walk-through gaming event every year, and I have a HUGE hassle every year of setting up 500 4' x 8' panels (on an aluminum pipe and drape skeleton) in 24 hours inside a hotel ballroom. I have used a variety of wall panels, but after many years I have come to the conclusion that I would like to MAKE my own true 4' x 8' vacu-form wall panels for the event. Having a large library of these walls would work out very well for me. Also, since my patrons are gamer nerds, they are awesome customers and they never damage the sets...so I can go with much thinner substrates than most haunts. I am hoping that this fact will make the machine easier to build.
I am looking for any advice about how to go about making a gi-normous vacu-form that can accept perhaps up to 5' x 10' sheets so that they can reduce down to 4' x 8' finished panels. I am not needing anything industrial as I am not making panels for selling -- only my use.
I also own a sign shop so I can get the various substrates at a good price, but my experience with vacu-forming is about nil. Are there any books anyone would recommend about vacu-forming in general, and does anyone have any info about making something this large?
Anyway, any info or tips would be much appreciated.
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