Build A Surfboard Episode 3: Laminating and Vacuum Bagging

Step 2 Into the Bag without Touching the Bag

Johnny says: "No one else does it this way. Everyone else tapes down the glass all around so it won't shift when they slide it into the bag. I hate doing that. So I figured out how to put it in the bag without touching the bag."

The secret is the fan over his left shoulder. He sets up the bag hanging from hooks, tape, and wire from the ceiling. The bag's mouth is open facing the fan. When he turns on the fan it blows air into the bag's open mouth, fully inflating and holding the whole bag open so he can put the board inside without touching it. Then he turns off the fan and the bag deflates, the top falling gently down onto the board.

Comments

[ImmortalSoFar]

When I worked in a plastic bag factory, that's how the customers filled bread bags. The bags are on wickets, the fan blows open the top one and then a piston pushes in the bread, breaking off the top bag and allowing the fan to inflate the next one.