Anyone here have any good info on working with Kydex? I had a thread bookmarked at "that other place", but now that they've vanished like an Afghani terrorist we all love to hate I'm left informationless. Specifically, that thread referenced using the oven to heat up Kydex instead of a heat gun, and it gave an exact temperature to use as I recall. I was working on my first-ever Kydex holster yesterday, and I obviously got the oven too hot, since the edges of the Kydex baked onto my wife's good cookie sheet. :roll: Fortunately I'm still alive (with the promise that I'll replace her cookie sheet & henceforth I'll only use the one that's already "ruined" for Kydex cooking.
Funny thing, when Kydex gets too hot it not only bakes down to the sheet, it also starts to "shrink" or "retract", so that it's substantially thicker around the edges, which requires sanding with a dremel to even it out.
Anyhoo, here's a couple of pics of the results. It's not pretty, not even close, but it's functional. I can hold it upside down and shake hard and my P3AT won't pop out. When drawing, a simple finger flick pops the holster free. Also, I moulded it to fit *over* the belt clip, because I don't want to have to remove the clip when I switch to pocket carry.
Funny thing, when Kydex gets too hot it not only bakes down to the sheet, it also starts to "shrink" or "retract", so that it's substantially thicker around the edges, which requires sanding with a dremel to even it out.
Anyhoo, here's a couple of pics of the results. It's not pretty, not even close, but it's functional. I can hold it upside down and shake hard and my P3AT won't pop out. When drawing, a simple finger flick pops the holster free. Also, I moulded it to fit *over* the belt clip, because I don't want to have to remove the clip when I switch to pocket carry.