DIY laminator

In everyday life, periodically there is a need for lamination of paper media. Very often it can be documents, children's educational tasks, board games, business cards, etc. In the process of frequent use, sheets of paper with important information become worthless. Let's try to figure out how to laminate this or that paper medium at home, what it will take and how laborious the process will be.

Materials and tools for the manufacture of the laminator

Making a tablet or a roll laminator with your own hands is a laborious and rather lengthy process. To start it, you need to purchase all the necessary tools and materials. For work you will need the following.

• Profile guides: rails, construction profile or square metal pipe.
• The pneumatic system is top.
• Shaft with a diameter of 80 mm.
• Pressure regulator.
• Glass 12 mm thick.
• Static air ionizer (so that the dust is not attracted to the film).

Advice! A faulty printer can be a good basis for making a laminator.

How to make a tablet laminator

Getting down.

• We cut 40 m of pipe, twist it using furniture corners, measure it, conduct an audit. Substantial load occurs between the shaft, the drive and the countertop.
• As a guide weld a square tube to the table, and the carriage must ride on bearings. Pressure is regulated by a reducer.
• We select the countertop from chipboard or glass, which is much more reliable.

Advice! Due to its heavy weight and high density, glass can be screwed onto the bed without insulating, while insulating the metal.

• We collect a bed from a pipe 3000х1300. We twist to the corners, as a stand you can take the old table. For greater reliability, it is best to boil all pipes with argon..
• We cook the portal from the channel 80 mm, so it is easier to fix the cylinders.
• We fasten the rails under the bed, the stopper should be placed at the ends.
• We fix the shaft. If your shaft is even and smooth (like polished), you can press 3-5 kg ​​/ cm². And when there are slight irregularities on the material or on the shaft, you can pin down to 8 kg / cm2.

How to turn an iron into a "laminator"

In cases where a laminator is not required so often, you can use an iron.

• We will get a film for lamination, A4 sets are most suitable. A film with a thickness of 75-80 microns is quite suitable.
• Heat the iron to medium temperature, not higher. Since there is a risk that the whole film will go in bubbles.
• We put a sheet of paper in the pocket.
• Slowly, starting from the junction of the film, iron, while expelling the air.
• We repeat the movements on the one hand, then on the other.

Iron Lamination Tips

The cooled film becomes transparent and gives the documents extra strength. In order to protect yourself and the product, You can put a sheet of white paper between the iron and the film. We cut the product on a specially designed clerical lining. For this we need a clerical knife and a metal ruler. Rounded corners can be cut with scissors for manicure.

Has an air bubble appeared? If the film is still hot, you can try to gently hold it with a soft piece of cloth, and it will stick. If this method does not help, it remains to pierce the bubble with a needle and draw it again with an iron.