This machine is on display at the Chatham Historic Dockyard TrustThe Maudslay forming machine was built in 1810 to mechanise rope making at Chatham Dockyard. Its introduction meant better, stronger ...

When we think of 3D printing we usually think of a little robot that squirts out endless lines of plastic onto a surface. But vacuum forming—smoothing a sheet of thin plastic over an object to make a ...

3oz of rabbit fur in the top of this machine is the first step to making a bowler hat.This rare working example of a fur forming machine comes from Christy's in Stockport, which in the nineteenth ...

The vacuum forming machine can form plastic sheets around objects to create a form. In the Maker Lab, we have a My Yard Formart 2 vacuum former and a Centroform SV 1217 vacuum former. Material Fees: ...

Orbital forming is a process that uses an angled forming tool (peen) that spins off center at a 3 to 6 degree angle to securely fasten an assembly. The tool progressively heads, swages, crowns, flares ...