Vacuum bag material thickness?

Tony Baideme

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Aloha peoples. I am thinking of making a vacuum bag for some laminating I want to do. I will probably just use sheet polyethelene material, but don't want to go too thick or too thin. Your choices? It will probably be about 4' x 7' max.

Mahalo to all.
 
I used some vinyl material from a fabric shop for many years. It is about 10mil and worked just fine, but last year I replaced it with 20mil vinyl from Joe.

Going way back to the point I first got a vacuum pump, we had an extra vinyl shower curtain laying around at home, so I tested with it. It worked quite well for some bentwood pieces I needed for a project. Dirt cheap, too!
 
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