working with a vacuform pack

In an effort to keep from sealing a lot of wood I am currently in the market or a vacuform pack. I am however, confused about one key component problem. In the past I have acced internal electronics via removing my bumper and pie plate (cylotron). On most vac form packs I see, the pan and the rest of the pack are one peice. ■■ to i keep acces to the electronics inside the pack?

Get a vacformed shell thats in two pieces or possibly put an access hole in the motherboard.

Irri

access in the mb, its really the only way i think

Take it off the mother board. Simple as that. :smiley:

Try to keep as much of your electronics as you can mounted to the motherboard. Use screws to attach the pack shell to the motherboard, and if you need to access them, remove the shell.

I agree. That’s what they did on the screen used packs…

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Darrin

I agree with all of the above…

Here’s mine.

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Cam

Cam- Is that a fiberglass or did you just layer a vaccumform with resin?

The main thing I am woriried about is an obvious seam that screams that the pack is not glued to the motherboard. do those packs above have that problem?

Why are you worried about the packs screaming they arent glued to a motherboard?.. Normals dont look at the pack and say"Wow lookit that.. he didnt glue his pack to his motherboard"

Dude even the movie packs arent glued to the mother board.. so its accurate to the movies.. yea theres a seam if you do it this way.. its impossible not to have a line..If you dont like the line then glue it..

If you want it glued to the mother board you have to put an access hole in the mother board.. to access the electronics..

Half the guys do it one way.. and half the guys do it the other way..

If one way bothers you.. then do it the other way.. no way is incorrect ..

Its your pack and you need to do it the way you want to.. cuz its yours..

pick a way and go with it.. its really that simple.. good luck..

There isnt much of a seam on mine, but it did take a bit of tinkering to make the shell lay completely flat against the MB, but with all the parts being black, any seam wouldn’t be too noticable.

Its a vac shell with 2 layers of glass inside it. The thing will probably out live me!

Cam

Even if you glue it to the motherboard there will be a seam. You would have to fill the seam with bondo, and sand sand sand sand sand to make it go away. Not a good idea if ya ask me, but its not my pack. Like mentioned, take a look at the screen used packs and you’ll see the seam.

How do you layer the inside? where do you get the materials and what are they?

mine has a double mb because i HAD to glue to the first one. there were gaps about 1/8" big and in some spot you cold see right though from one side to the other. so unless yours is that bad, i wouldnt worry about glueing it down

Go to an automotive parts store, and just look for the body filler/paint section.

The fiberglass is sold in either sheets, strip, or loose bits. I get the 3sq Metres of heavy weave glass sheet, and just regular old 2 part body/marine resin(1 gallon).

Before you do anything though, make sure the inside of the shell is clean clean clean! Wash it with dishsoap and water, then give it a rough sand, and wash it again. Failing to do this could cause the glass to pop off after it hardens.

I then just rough cut sheets to fit inside the pack shell, and follow the resins directions on application from there (since they are all slightly different). It hardens in about 30 mins to an hour, and then I just repeat the same process.

Once everything is totally hard and doesent stink anymore (about a day), I just whip out the Dremel and cut away all the excess that sticks up from the back of the shell (the surface that meets the motherboard.

Cam