Best Way To Bend Plastic Sheet

Mark the location where you want to bend your plastic sheet using a permanent marker to make a light tic at either edge of the line.

Best way to bend plastic sheet. Mark your plexiglas sheet along the line where you want to bend it. I have foung that simle carpeners square will damn close 90 degree. Both using hot water and using a hair dryer are the best options as you need something to stay hot as you heat your plastic. You can also sandwich the shaped plastic between a folded sheet of foil and iron the foil to heat up the plastic.

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. Position the plastic sheet so that the area you will bend is between two flat flame retardant surfaces like saw horses. Start at the wool setting and slowly increase the iron temperature until the plastic feels warm. Overheating will melt the plastic.

The foil will not stick as long as the plastic does not melt completely. Diy soda fountain machine. Screw the boards together through the second board straight into the base board placing a screw every 6 inches. Put on cotton safety gloves.

Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push. First experiment with a few scraps to get the time and heat right. This is the completed form you will use to bend your acrylic sheet.

Ensure good ventilation because heated acrylic creates mildly toxic fumes. Secure the sheet in place by using clamps on both ends. Slip the kevlar on and position the assebly on your choice of straight surfaces energize place plastic on element and wait till bercomes taffy like and make your bend. Only that the operator is now forced to move the heat gun constantly along the bend line and flip over the polycarbonate sheet to ensure both sides get heated.

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