Traditional RC Body Mold Design for Vacuum Forming (The Basics)

Basic introduction to how vacuum forms have traditionally been made for RC bodies.
Not complete how to, but start into understanding the process and materials that have been used for decades.
provided by Sabula Tech

[@therealderjett]

I just painted my last Dahm's VW body. I always loved the strength of their bodies.

[@gabo_os]

Thanks for your time Daniel, I appreciated you for the lesons and your nowledge, have a great day!

[@Vickyvee97]

Thank you for these videos and thank you for being a refuge for us old farts who refuse to get rid of our old rigs!

[@rjselves]

Thanks for the video. I've always wondered how the molds were made! Very informative!

[@alphaxray9211]

Great Guy, thanks for sharing your knowledge. 👍🏼😎👍🏼

[@farleyj1999]

Thank you so much I was just thinking about hollowness out the buck. Great video

[@owcfc9072]

thanks for the video! exactly what I needed!

[@EstablishedLowriders]

Thanks for your time and knowledge

[@mohamedabdel-mohsen6032]

Thanks alot for sharing, that was very helpful .

[@shonzee5018]

Thanks for the info

[@craigsnowdon8322]

thanks for the video learnt a lot 👍👋

[@Electrojudaz]

Thanks alot for sharing, very intresting :-)

[@plv287]

This has been sooo helpful, and I'm not even working on an RC body. I am trying to make headlight lenses for a classic car. Do all the tips for the molds hold true if I am trying to vacuum form 2mm thick acrylic?

[@EstablishedLowriders]

I made a body and I’m going to make the female mold so I can get body ready to form, but I’m not sure the material I need to pour into to make my mold, I’ve tired plaster before and wasn’t the best, I’ve also tired fiberglass resin and matt to get strength but I’d rather buy and use some type of Epoxy, I’m only doing it for fun of my own rc hobby and love creating stuff! Thanks again for the video.

[@garrettknighton5530]

Nice information

[@jhorich1068]

Sir. Can i use some big bottle water to make a rc car bod shell.. thank you for great video

[@johnbee1574]

nice video also is that a yokomo rc12 just above your left shoulder?

[@fixitwithbiskit]

Can you make a mold from tooling Gel coat and fiberglass for vacuum molding I’m going to try it just wondering if you have ever tried

[@SabulaTech]

I have never seen that done. Probably have a problem with the gel coat handling the 300F or more temps of the plastic over time.

[@killemtoenjoythesilence]

I've been working on all this with HO scale slot car bodies. All the bits about the bucks which I do make my own came as common sense to me and I do have those features built into my much smaller forms. What I would love to hear from you about are the finer points of wrinkle reduction. Basically ways to design things like the blocks in the beginning that will stop the polycarbonate from building up on corners. I generally work with .010" polycarbonate sheet. I'm also using a dental cast vacuum machine. I've had quite a few problems with this. I feel like I'm overheating the plastic to get the details, also I'm concerned I don't have enough suction but I know others use this same machine with success. I have had some success with various designs but I would be interested to hear what you have to say. I'm definitely doing the right basics on the bucks like no undercut areas and having the hollow cavity with suction holes in corners and seams. As far as I can tell I'm doing things to the best of my knowledge but it is limited knowledge.
Great video. Thanks for posting. Anything you can suggest that might help would also be greatly appreciated.
I'm a huge RC fan too. I've been racing since vintage cars were new. Still have a huge collection. I remember some of these from back in the day. Great content. 👍

[@SabulaTech]

Hi, wish I could help you better. Maybe your machine has a bad pump? Sounds really like you are getting you plastic too hot because the pump isn't getting things formed well at lower temps.

[@Deadman316]

Thanks looks like i made my first buck properly then.... the only thing is what temp do you heat your buck too the resin i used is 128c capable and I added about 14 to 20% aluminium powder to it.

[@SabulaTech]

The buck is usually heated to about 115C depending on the the design it might be higher. If it has a big flat surface on top then it goes higher. Good luck!

[@Deadman316]

@@SabulaTech thanks for your reply hope fully i can get a clean pull now lol..... I'm not one to give up easily

[@lubomirnovosedlik2328]

Hi, amazingly, the video says a lot, but if you could make a body, I think I didn't find the form, I found your videos, thank you, Lubo.

[@joshuaburks]

Directly behind your head in this video is a losi LXT box, I am currently restoring one and am having difficulty locating a body, do you by any chance have any bodies for the LXT?

[@SabulaTech]

Sorry no bodies for it.

[@carbonkid888]

Hi, thanks for these interesting videos, exactly what I was looking for. I want to reproduce old existing bodies from my 90s Kyoshos. Do you have a few tips on how I could go about making a mold?

[@SabulaTech]

If you can find a good quality original body you can back poor material into the body. But be aware, depending on how much the material shrinks as it cures it can go from a little smaller than original to much smaller.

[@cyberimperium5344]

@@SabulaTech Thus creating a solid model to then replicate and produce via Vacuumed

[@cyberimperium5344]

Did you do this?

[@treywinslow2867]

Awesome videos..very interesting. Are you going to be producing that truck body?

[@SabulaTech]

Yes. should be out in March.

[@RCjunkie]

Thanks I have a few buck for my kits Matney Models

[@terrygrimwood8217]

Do you have any rc pulling car or truck bucks

[@SabulaTech]

No we don't.