Hard Case Tubes

BJKZY174

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Does anyone know where to get, or how to make the oval tube form that leather cases use as a primary shape/skeleton for a hard sided-style case? I understand alot of them are PVC, but there certainly doesn't seem to be any commercially available PVC pipes/tubes that come in anything but the standard round form?
 

Chopdoc

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Been there, done that.

I heat formed a couple.

If you want more you will have to contract for extrusions.

I was close to sourcing some once...it fell through.

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PRED

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Extrusion requires dies, which require blueprints to manufacture and a minimum of five thousand pieces per order.
 

BJKZY174

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I'm having pretty good luck by making my own wood molds, and forming 3/32 ABS sheets with a heat gun. Tedious but cheaper than commercial molds and high volume costs.
 
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