How To Bend Plastic Sheet At Home

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How to bend plastic sheet at home.

The reason this works is because acrylic plastic actually melts at 405 f. Use long thin 1 inch or so in width test strips to practice your technique and learn how your particular heat source affects your chosen thickness of plastic. Once heated it will bend easily. Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic.

This video segment will show you how to bend plastic using the briskheat strip heater. Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun. Then the sheet is bent through the angle and clamped against a former. Preparing hot air gun w.

Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push. If the area to bend is on an outer curve or bend or if you want to create a tighter corner try using a frying pan on low heat to hold the plastic area to bend. Advantage in using a shallow say 3 mm x 3 mm sawcut on the bend line to prevent the banana effect due to differential expansion. Now that you know your bend allowance take your protractor and draw a clear line with your marker across the point at which you will bend your sheet metal.

To set up your plastic or acrylic sheet to bend simple curves for your miniature and model projects you need to first remove the protective covering from the material you wish to bend. Prepare your heat gun for bending the acrylic. Ideal for perspex acrylic plexiglass polycarbonate. Cold water soaked towels are used for cooling.

Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius. To order the briskheat strip heater go to this link. Heating is a slow process in order to make sure that you get a straight bend in the acrylic.