Vacuum forming clear plastic is one of those things that's dirt cheap and easy to get it to about 85% as good as it needs to be (unless it's an RC car body or RC airplane canopy, then it's good enough. That last 15% feels like it might as well be on the friggin moon.

what is it you find so offensive about the "I love spam" sticker???

if there is not a "schön hier aber waren sie schon mal in Baden-Württemberg" im disappointed.

I wouldn't worry about the quality of the windshield Matt... I'm going to send you a huge Fig Newtons sticker for it anyway......

I will never be over this channel, Matt could do anything I would watch this guy start an ant farm.

"we do not do these projects because they are less expensive but we do the because we aren't smart enough to know that they won't be less expensive" I want this tattoo'd on me

Came expecting to be clickbaited and was pleasantly surprised, you did in fact turbocharge your oven, what an absolute chad

All in favor of organizing the fan base to send nothing but Nicholas Cage stickers?

Does it have to be PG?

You're gonna have a lot of weird shit on your car you know?

Maybe sandwich the blank in between silicone rubber sheets. Then you can move it to the mold without touching it directly, and it won't cool as fast. But i dont know if it'll impede the moisture purge step. I assume it will.

Could you just skip the windscreen entirely and do like a FPV camera and screen or headset like racing drones use?

Nobody ever says the full name of the shiny foam. In the building industry it’s just “polyiso”, the highest R value per inch of any insulating foam board material. Commonly used in flat roofs and also more recently in high energy efficiency wall construction.

I had to rewind and pause and I have tears in my eyes over "Literally inside the exhaust pipe".

7:12 the thing probably has cyanide

Dear matt, you're the best. Sincerely, me

billiard felt, you need billiard felt. ditch the flocking

the whole car looks like a head of a dodo. color it orange and brown 😬

Wait. The algorithm has fighter jets?

earlier this year I made a pair of speakers for around $1500, and it only took around 3 months. They perform roughly on par with a very good value, $600 pair of speakers. But importantly, they look as good as a $900 pair of speakers. Anyways I set my budget for the next pair I'll make at $10,000. Needless to say, this video really resonated with me.

hey i liked and subbed any chance i can get those off casts? i can use that for cosplay armor just saying

I already lost it at the chocolate bar and then came the sandwich 🤣 Props for the Xyla Sticker though

I was just thinking "man you're going to burn out your turbo bearings without oilllllll- never mind you thought of it"😂

“You have learned nothing and I have accomplished nothing.” And that’s why I’m here!

Literally inside the exhaust pipe....LMAO!! I laughed WAY too hard at that!

All hail... sorry you got sick

I hope this helps...having recently made curved windshields out of polycarbonate for an airplane windshield, I did it much differently and easier. Your "oven" doesn't need to be so hot, only 250f. Make it big enough for the whole form, which should withstand 250f. Preheat. Lay the entire sheet over the form and heat it for about 25 minutes. It should droop over the form. Do not remove it from the form until it is cooler than 175f. Use cotton gloves to push it to the form as it cools. Check on the progress every 5 minutes until you get good results. If this helps, please sign "Bobby Tee 😊!" on you car with a sharpy! Test my procedure out by making a small mold and a 12" square piece of polycarbonate in your kitchen oven. You will have good results.

Most kitchen thermometers are adjustable. On the bottom of the disk, you’ll see a nut, put a small wrench on the nut, and you can spin the disk. Put the thermometer in boiling water (212°), and adjust to that known temperature.

They ain't edgy but I got some good honest custom stickers.

I think you should have or make a wooden maple C&C buck then finish and drill it out for vacuum forming. Combine the two techniques and it will be flat and nearly perfect. You still may need to polish it like a headlight lens. Test to figure out the size and number of holes for optimum results. I have seen boat windshields formed using a shop vacuum cleaner for the vacuum. I doubt you really read these comments but that's my two cents having done small format vacuum forming for theatrical props and so forth. Will send a sticker!

A bigger oven and a temperature resistant mold would let you bake and form the sheet at the same time....

All hail the, dammit I am going to be that guy. I am not a fan of saying VIN Number. There, I feel better.

All hail the Taco... darn, now I'm hungry. My college roommate had a Tacoma he used for his pool cleaning business. I bet that truck is still running, all these decades later. Darn, now I'm old.

we did this at highschool. the lexan needs to be on a frame. under tension so it stretches over the form. we shoved the whole mould in the oven, let it sag, pulled it out then quickly clamped the frame down. otherwise it does this, goes lumpy.

There's this great climbing channel that will probably inspire you it's called HowNot2.

"So, it turns out I didn't have to turbocharge the oven, only buy decent thermometers". It's funny but it is a great lesson. We often use instruments that we have absolutely no idea about how accurate they are. From torque wrenches to thermometers to pressure sensors.

Ditch news.

Beautiful job. I would've used micro on the mould to prevent is from absorbing resin from the glass layers. But that's a tiny detail.

Only one question ... Do you have fire extinguisher in the garage ..? & another one question .., can you get at it ..? Or is it under piles of stuff ...

Aren't you working in Solidworks? I think you can convert the part to sheetmetal, and then do a "flat pattern" feature, no?

I have found someone who says "well that didn't work" more often than I do 😂

Ha

Despite Fox being associated with fast offroad applications, some of the best you can get for the miata a car that's not even fast on the road) are made by Fox

As someone certainly pointed out, your results are suboptimal because you heat shock the plastic when you wrap it around the cold mold in the cold outside air. You need to put the mold in the oven and heat and cool everything together.

Happy thoughts! You didn't burn your house down yet!

I should turbocharge the furnace in my home to make it burn fuel more cleanly. I should also add a catalytic converter.

Does your analysis process include raytracing and/or structural physics simulation?

S Tier content here.

pls change title its shit

I’m assuming the regulations don’t allow you to use a camera / monitor to drive… But, has that ever been allowed?