{"id":711,"date":"2009-07-26T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T00:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2009-07-26T19:36:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T00:36:15","slug":"vacuuform-battery-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/vacuuform-battery-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacuuform Battery Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/battery_holder_cardboard_tool.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/battery_holder_cardboard_tool-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"battery_holder_cardboard_tool\" title=\"battery_holder_cardboard_tool\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-713\" \/><\/a>After building a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/homebrew-bicycle-battery-bracket\/\">PVC pipe battery holder<\/a> for my electric bike, I used a vacuum form machine to make a polystyrene battery cover.  I built up a cheap tool form using cardboard (which turned out to be too week, but it was quick).<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_716\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/mold_formed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/mold_formed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vacuum form complete\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-716\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vacuum form complete<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n As the vacuum was forming the polystyrene around the cardboard the box started to deform so I had to release the vacuum before the styrene had fully formed itself to the PVC pipes, but it got close enough to be screw mounted. <!--more--><br \/>\nThis cover will protect the batteries and a lot of the wire connections from rain, the weather, and prying fingers. In addition to the batteries, the cover protects two of the three fuses on the bike and a switch to control the lights.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/battery_case_wired.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/battery_case_wired-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Battery Case Wired\" title=\"Battery Case Wired\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-721\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vacuum_cover_inplace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vacuum_cover_inplace-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vacuum Cover In Place\" title=\"Vacuum Cover In Place\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnright size-thumbnail wp-image-724\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After building a PVC pipe battery holder for my electric bike, I used a vacuum form machine to make a polystyrene battery cover. I built up a cheap tool form using cardboard (which turned out to be too week, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/vacuuform-battery-cover\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[68,71],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-ebike","tag-vacuum-form"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}