7/6/12
In our last design futures lesson I  vacuum formed my clock which I was very happy with. There was only me, Liv and Ellie who still had to finish our clocks. I would have vacuum formed mine the day before but I was in the choir and we had to go to the Marriot to perform during our DF lesson. When we got into the workkshop we straight away got out the vacuum former and turned it on. I saw that my mouth of my teddy had come off but it didn't matter. I just placed it on where it had to go and put it into the vacuum former. Once the thermoplastic was heated Mr Andrews put it on top of the wood. As it was pulled all of the air got sucked out to make the shape. I was very happy with the result of my clock when Mr Andrews got it out from the wood. We then had to wash the inside of the plastic using water and a special soap so that the paint can stick to the plastic. Unfortunatly we couldn't put in the clock mechanism but we will be able to do that in the next week or so. I can't wait to paint my teddy clock. I will post some pictures of the finished product soon.