New host is doing great but it feels weird to not hear a “Hey Fellas” at the start

I used to do this for a company in Wisconsin we made front ends for NASCAR/sprint cars. After we cut the parts out, the insides were sprayed with fiberglass for rigidity. You could do a single layup inside that and it would work great.

Cyril is a natural at presenting content for this channel! Of course we all miss Vlad and hope he recovers soon, but good to see the channel is in safe hands in the meantime 😊

There's a Lada potential with a vacuum forming machine. Many videos will come from this I'm sure. But they won't be Russian them out.

Fcuking legends!!! honstley just love how real this channel is

I love to see other ppl from the group hosting videos. Cyril is making fantastic job, i like this. By far, one of the best youtube car channels out there

New presenter is awesome, really honest, showing all the mistakes, and his concerns on cold weather. Newer the less, Vlad get well soon.

Wish you a speedy recovery Vlad, the new host is good though

Getting the plastic hot enough is SUPER important. A good tip is also to drill small holes in the mould around places like sharp edges where the vacuum struggles to get to. Getting the technique to do good parts every time takes some practice, but you quickly learn how it works and what to do to get the best result.

It would be epic if you could vacuum form the entire body in one mold. It would be like a giant RC car.

84-87 Honda CRX fenders are made from plastic right from the factory. They all break as they are old now and brittle. Making new ones with this machine… you would make a killing.

You can run those lamps on car batteries in a series parallel wiring configuration. Car batteries carry a lat of amps and those lights will run on dc as well as they can run on ac. problem solved. I wish you a speedy recovery,we love you here in America.

hope the big boss a quick recovery

Love the technical details Cyril, keep up the good work.

Great job on presenting this video, Hope the big man is feeling well soon.

I think Cyril likes hosting?!

I used to work at a plastic recycling facility, for super strong plastic car parts that can candle impacts, heat and cold, we made Fiberglass reinforced PP, but regular PP is really good for it too

young man did a great job presenting. thanks cyril

Cyril is smart AF,, go for it 💪🏿

This is very good because of the weight saved, but there have been MANY attempts to make cars from plastics and fibers, and they all have a bad result: When you leave the car exposed to the sun for some time, the plastic part will deform and lose alignment and design. It is really difficult and expensive to overcome this problem. Just a bonus: Even after advances in industry and engineering studies, there were cars that lasted many years exposed to the sun, but after 5 or 8 years they would become misaligned. The car part that has seen the most advances in the last 40 years is the dashboard, which can now withstand high temperatures through the windshield for an acceptable number of years. Anyway, to achieve this type of advancement, you couldn't just stamp the plastic on the vacuum table, you would need a gigantic plastic molding machine, with a sculpted steel mold weighing a few tons to create the most resistant polymer part. , controlled temperature, and total vacuum.

Good content, Interesting to see vacuum formed panels. They came out nicely, you did a good job on them.

a custom bodykit with it! Or maybe try to modernize a lada.

Love the channel. Super cool machine! The potential is endless. It would be cool to see a dashboard cover made to the drift missile

I love this channel. Followed these for years. Maybe from the beginning.

Get well soon vlad Cyril is great just want to see everybody back doing projects together also I miss the intro vlad does..

This is freaking GENIUS. Makes total sense (esp with a tube frame / roll cage) The FOAM he used is from SEALED AIR (I owned one for shipping / packing).

How's the sizing of the copied part? I think to get it bang on you'd need to mold the inside of the component to make a former, that way the wing or door or what ever would be the same size as the steel version.

Well done junior. Keep up the good work.

Great video Cyril! That’s one neat machine there, and I can see how it can be useful to make all kinds of things! As for the power consumption of the lights, I do wonder if you could come up with some alternative way to power them, or at least some of them to relieve the burden on your mains grid…. On a side note, I hope Vlad is feeling better, and is able to be in the videos soon.

Looks really good and for weight saving in competition would make it much faster. Not sure how you would fare in an accident mind. Cyril's a natural - Great presentation, really interesting

you guys now need to turn the abs plastic panel upsidedown and then make panels on the inside and it will suit the original panel size. you may also be able to put the mounts back in. or try to make an inside copy then make the outside copy from that. also that machine was a great price for what it can do.

1st thing is congratulations on learning the vacuum form. It can create many objects. Those fenders look awesome. Can't wait for a video on them. Perhaps regular fenders vs plastic fenders.

Remember the see-through LADA, imagine how cool that would have been if these technique was used to make the transparent sections.

you can replace all parts and make it soo much lighter! perfect for this kind of cars. Carbon is over rated... lets go plastic... 🤣

Windshield bonding glue should bond them to the chassis. You could bond aluminium strips to the inside of the 1mm panels to add a little rigidity and strength.

This is a cool episode! Quick comment about ABS body panels in general... The coatings applied make a big difference in the rigidity and longevity of the panel. For a show car, A quality adpro (adhesion promoter) to etch the plastic before doing a primer coat and paint is very important. Otherwise in cold temperatures a regular paint can flake when the panel flexes. OR for a rough and tumble tough car, go over it with a bedliner type spray inside and out and then apply a vinyl graphic for even better toughness. Looking forward to seeing the "ABS-U-Lada" completed!

Satisfying watching the vacuum process

You can spray the parts with Ed-40 and it will release easier

I always wanted to make a vacuum forming table, it's on the list. And, making my own plastic sheets from ground up different types of plastic to use with it. It's tricky stuff to dial in at first your getting ideal results. Now use it to make fancy modded fenders and hoods etc. Make a thermal formed microcar, your own version of the Chinese electric J2. This is where having thermalforming can shape the future, make a Ford Mustang looking LADA. Keep on rocking

Yeah, he is doing an excellent job hosting the channel. I always thought he was pretty good when he was explaining things in the past year.

Thank you very much for this thorough presentation

Badass! Your videos are great fellas...keep'em coming!

Add some draft angles on the edges of the mold to aid in your mold release and minimize vaccum blowouts. Great video!

Please give us an update on Vlad next video. Hopefully he is feeling better.

Keep up the interesting projects...we love you in Dallas Texas...

I had a miniature version of this machine when I was a kid. I made all kinds of Hotwheels bodies to put onto Aurora AFX cars.

very cool machine, I know from much smaller vacuum machines you need to warm the plastic till its almost drooping too much to keep it soft enough to get a good shape on the mould without wrinkles.

veeeeeery interesting , thinking on making a moped with a raincovering and this seems to make making the panels a lot eazier , the machine needed for it is probably pricey for only making a few panels , i can immagine that making panels for racecars that get realy abused will start returning the cost for the machine pretty fast

I'd love to see an all plastic Lada, like all of the parts that can be replaced with plastic being made of plastic. I'd imagine that would be much, much lighter than stock, and would probably look the same.

Great video. I love the new invention of making parts of plastic and don't even know. Would be nice to make the interior include the seats. Thank you all.

To test them in freezing temps, put a small piece in the freezer.

love your keeping ladas alive, a few things to help you. my CNC machine takes a lot more power than the circuit can handle like your table, so I bought a used 5000 amp generator which I run when I'm using it this would let you use all the lamps, if you do decide you want to use thin sheets you could reinforce them like your molds (tape plastic to the car spray with foam press on your fender cut away excess this will stop it from bonding with the body of the car to replace it if you damage it, you vac machine is very nice but the middle bar is not applying enough pressure to hold the plastic you need some way to make a clamp there better for thicker material, and my last thought is what else to do there was a guy who made large model battle ship hulls 3 ft long filled with foam and an opening in the back for motor and controllers which he sold to builders who wanted to race model hydrofoils or fight sim battles see if there is an interest the modeler builds the top (not sure but I expect he puts in weights in the bottom to stabilize wasn't shown)

Good luck trying to paint or stick anything to HDPE, I think you'd have a better chance with butter.

When I was a kid in the 60s I had a Mattel Vac-U-Form kit. Just like yours only smaller! limited to about 4” x 4” maybe a little less.

Also, you could just pull out a portion of the lamps for running in the 45kW configuration. 30 kW is still 2/3 of the intended heat, it might work if heated longer.

That's some great work there! Maybe you guy's can make a whole car out plastic! Wishing Vlad a speedy recovery!🙏👌😎👍

Wishing vlad the best of luck. Good job Cyril

I think making a dashboard or cluster would be really amazing

I think for smooth it out you need blow thorch (or electric heater) and ruler like for wallpaper to squezze the plastic in.

Vacuum forming is a simple process, but as you've seen: the thinner the material, the more contours come out in the plastic and the thicker the material, the more rigid the plastic is but it loses the detail. Consider raising the mould to allow for mounting brackets on the plastic to connect it to the car. You can bond fins and strengtheners to thin sheets to prevent it from rippling or warping. Additionally, as soon as the plastic starts to bow, it is ready to be vacuum formed. Make sure you have enough excess material so the vacuum form doesn't leak and then distort as it cools. Consider a mould release agent on plastic sheets that are more likely to get attached to the mould. You can always shave off the excess material later.

This is a wonderful machine!

This machine is fantastic what you can do is wrap the metal panels as long as they are straight it doesn’t matter what they look like because you can wrap them. So you don’t need to undent, puddy, or cut out rust just wrap it!!! SWEET!!!

All kinds of tricks to getting nice parts out of vacuum forming. The draft angles coming off of the mold and the orientation of the mold on the bed can greatly affect the quality of the part...or even if it can be made, depending on the complexity, draft, etc.

That is looking good, plenty of potential in it. I will say from experience that HDPE is terrible for springing back unless you keep it fully clamped until stone cold. Probably not the plastic for this job.

one problem from vacuum forming is the mold is not the original dimensions, using for example 2mm thick sheet ,means panel will be 2mm larger on all dimensions, not a problems for a shitter , all the shut lines and gaps would be fuked. however its is a neat way of forming air boxes , scoops. modded panels etc..

Very well done, professional

You have to drill small vacuum holes to the corners of shapes in mold to get better results. 😊 -Plastic mechanic from Finland

Awesome work.

I know this is 2 years old but.. the thing to do would be to vacuum form an inner and outter mold. instead on cutting the plastic and using that as the fender, keep it intact so you gan pour in a solution that hardens into a fender.. youd be able to easily install mounting brackets that way too

Brilliant video guys 👍

Garage 54 guys are so cool they do their own ad

You can use epoxy resin and fibreglass fabric to reinforce the plastic plastic shell. I believe this is actually done on some modern cars.

it would make an amazing vinyl wrapping machine !

Best bet for temperature resistance and stability would be a PA 66(nylon 66). It is strong, light weight, and holds its form well.

I sued to work in the thermoforming department of a plastic factory making ute canopies and sportlids, we also made bed liners and cargo liners. Very similar tech but way scaled up and much older and actually less versatile. This is sick.

Great video every detail and no bs good shit

as you said it will be interesting to know how to make the interior bend to attach the panel without the rivets in sight, they made front bumper with the interior bend buy i dont know how

Cyril loves to explain everything detailed and simple for viewers and we love that Meanwhile Vlad is a bit lazy 😆 Jokes aside, get well soon Vlad!

You could use it over the top of body panels, as well. It would clean up a car quickly. Good job guys!

Also i feel that you do not need to alter your pitch if there is only one presenter, but when there is two it makes the conversation much easier to follow.

Hi Garage 54 is a pleasure to watch all your projects that are often challenging, so I come up with a proposal for another challenge, painting an entire car with powder coating, I think no one has tried anything like that. I hope this is the right place to post this proposal 🙄

one thing that would help is drilling small holes in the mold. that way the air goes though and makes for a better piece. It sucks down the plastic more positively.

So much fun to watch.

3D printing some external engine components and testing there longevity would be interesting. Valve covers, intake, etc.

well done, nice machine!

Best upgrade they could make would be to add a battery bank to power the entire lighting system, and then make the vacuum tank twice as big. These fellas are pretty innovative and will get this figured out eventually. I’d love to see an entire Lada made out of plastic, frame and all. If they drill out the spot welds of the frame they could actually make every single chassis and body part using this machine, but it’d be pretty bouncy as a drift car.

Awesome hoodie design!

I was doing this in '15 to make rc heli canopies. Your door is bigger than what the car needs, a finished door is not a mould, it has to be smaller than the final product.

Technically you can put two pieces together (glue them) and you will get one solid piece. OR you can also fiberglass it from the inside which will also make it more firm.

Ensuring that post-apocalypse, Ladas can live on! We need Ladas in some arctic vaults somewhere.

You can make a side business of making all sorts of things; like travel luggage, computer cases, and shoes. My son used to make plastic boxes to encase a home security system electronics. He also made protective rubberized shells for computer laptops. You might find it more profitable than the Garage.

When molding plastics or other stuff it just takes practice. Keep it up. Nice work for first time.

I listen to kevin talbot's rc channel. He reinforce his body shell with dry wall screen tape and shoe glue and it's really worth it maybe you could find some type of material to use as drywall screen tape but in a wider version, shoe glue is cheap and do an amazing job

There is a possible chanche to improve the current setup for making real metal body panels: if you use the formed plastic shapes as molds for casting high strenght concrete, then you can use theese shaped concrete pieces for shaping metal sheets in a water pressurized hydraulic forming machine. For accurate edge and hole cutting you can use a 3D pointer arm system which moves a plasma cutter and its movement leaded with hand touching down the original body piece template.

This is how a lot of French and especially Italian cars are made...basically it makes them more resilient to low speed bumps and more importantly (for Italy) it prvents tin worm.

I love to see you guys try running a diesel motor using a closed loop. Meaning you put the exhaust pipe into this intake then run it..

Awesome! Thanks for sharing great video

Quick recovery Vlad

Good way to get some nice wide arches or other body kit

Many possibilities with that machine. Here are a few suggestions: #1: Upcycle plastic bags. You can heatform plastics from trash into everything from bricks and building materials to parts for vehicles. #2: cycle the lamps to reduce immediate powerconsumption so you can use the entire buildplate without supplying full power. You turn on and off lamps in a sequence to heat up the entire area uniformly while never having all the lamps on at the same time. #3: Put clay or bodyfiller on panels. Shape this clay into strengthening rigdes to get better structural integrity without using thicker plastic plates. #4: Form mold first, turn it around and use liquid epoxy in the vacuumprocess. Strengthen with leather scraps or old clothes. This will make bodypanels that handle cold weather better. #5: Shinyer reflective material above lamps and more insulating material below material thats heated. This will direct and contain the heat better so you dont need as much power. #6: Focusing lenses or more efficient heatingelements combined with airflow in the heatchamber will drastically reduce powerconsumption. #7: Singlestep fill-and-finish for bumpers and such. By vacuum draw in and spread over material where origial material is damaged by rust or dented. #8: Some matal thin plates and some spotwelders. But this would probably nto work with the current plywood structure.