George Fereday just made a homemade, handheld blow molding rig that can melt, blow and mold thermoset plastics. This is fantastically cool. This is a process that I normally associate with industrial machinery carrying out operations on a scale much to large and complex for me to think about tinkering with it casually, or trying out experimental ideas, or playing with the manufacturing process itself. It’s really awesome to see that industrial process stripped down to a basic principle that’s small and simple enough to fully grasp.
I found this on IDSA, a frickin awesome blog about going from designs to physical things.
Check out the video, too:
Blow Moulding Gun from George Fereday on Vimeo.