Plastics company

[remotebandit]

Ive got a bit of an idea on a new design in Painting pails and got the design and specs down but looking for a place that can make me up a demo .

Does anyone know of any places that can help me :)

[obzELiTe]

Prob easier to build your own vacuum former. I think a one off mite see you needing to sell a shelf or two of cars.

[remotebandit]

LOL ... yeah , thought of that but i need heat resistant plastic so cant possibly do it my way :(

[obzELiTe]

How much heat resistance? Silicon is going to be your only truly heat proof stuff. But most plastic is going to be relatively heat proof. I mean takeaway food containers cop a bit of heat specially when u nuke em to reheat food, and they are vacuum formed.

[PandaGFX]

nah just the "blister clamshell" like used for sushi rolls is vacformed

the square and round boxes with separate lids are injection molded afaik

[MatMan]

To give you an idea we have plastics made at my workplace fairly regular and tooling costs around $10000
Gotta be worth it too make your money back!

[Stewbaru]

Sketch a proto and we'll do a round table review.
A lot of 3D modelling packages now will simulate to a certain degree.

You could also look at heat forming HDPE or UHMWPE as this stuff can be welded, it would just be a matter of profiling shapes as required and getting one made.

Prove the principle then hit up ABC New Inventors.