These new zipper luggage from Vacuum Urgent Techniques are the closest you will get to a dear flip-top vacuum press with out really having one. These thick, zippered vacuum luggage open on three sides to permit full entry to the inside, eliminating the trickiest a part of vacuum veneering: sliding awkward assemblies into the top of a heavy bag and hoping nothing shifts misplaced within the course of. As an alternative, you possibly can work immediately on the underside platen, constructing your meeting fastidiously and zipping up the bag round it. The three-sided entry additionally makes it straightforward to veneer a number of panels directly.
Most significantly, these luggage’ industrial zippers have been hermetic in my testing. That’s what you might be paying for, and there actually is nothing like these luggage in the marketplace. I like to recommend combining one with Evacunet (additionally from Vacuum Urgent Techniques), an affordable plastic mesh that goes atop your veneer meeting and helps vacuum stress unfold evenly throughout it.
Vacuum Urgent Techniques provides two bag sizes, 4 ft. by 8 ft. and 5 ft. by 10 ft., however half-size fashions are on the way in which at an estimated worth of $900 every.
—Craig Thibodeau is a furnishings maker in Altavista, Va.
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