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<blockquote data-quote="Mystery" data-source="post: 3091815" data-attributes="member: 43185"><p>Thanks a bunch. My vacuum press is home built. I use a shop vac for suction. I built a wood box with an inlet for the shop vac, and holes in the top to pull the vacuum. I heat up my kydex and put it in a frame that mounts over the vacuum box. Once you attach the frame with kydex onto the box and turn on the vacuum, it sucks it down in a split second. I work the kydex a little while vacuum is being pulled, and wah-lah! You have to remember that it will form to the pistol completely, the full width, so the kydex forms that it produces really work well for hybrid holsters, since one side is kydex and the only side that is actually formed to the firearm. You can use standard presses, with a high density foam on both sides of the form to keep your kydex only forming to 1/2 width of the firearm, adjusting the form's depth on the firearm by using different size HD foams.</p><p></p><p>Here's a couple pics of the simple home-made vacuum press. Expensive models are available, but this is cheap to make and works extremely well.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]115275[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]115276[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mystery, post: 3091815, member: 43185"] Thanks a bunch. My vacuum press is home built. I use a shop vac for suction. I built a wood box with an inlet for the shop vac, and holes in the top to pull the vacuum. I heat up my kydex and put it in a frame that mounts over the vacuum box. Once you attach the frame with kydex onto the box and turn on the vacuum, it sucks it down in a split second. I work the kydex a little while vacuum is being pulled, and wah-lah! You have to remember that it will form to the pistol completely, the full width, so the kydex forms that it produces really work well for hybrid holsters, since one side is kydex and the only side that is actually formed to the firearm. You can use standard presses, with a high density foam on both sides of the form to keep your kydex only forming to 1/2 width of the firearm, adjusting the form's depth on the firearm by using different size HD foams. Here's a couple pics of the simple home-made vacuum press. Expensive models are available, but this is cheap to make and works extremely well. [ATTACH]115275[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]115276[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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