Bending Acrylic Sheet With Heat Gun

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Bending acrylic sheet with heat gun.

Sheet of acrylic large enough for your needs. Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass. Tutorial for how to. Here s a video showing my procedure for bending plexiglass with a heat gun.

When bending plexiglass you will need to have a straight edge to make sure you get a. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push. Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass. If you have a toaster oven set it to about 200º and leave the door slightly ajar.

Gather the supplies you need in order to bend the acrylic with a heat gun. The difficulty with small projects having tight bends close together is control of the heat source so the adjoining curve isn t affected. Heating is a slow process in order to make sure that you get a straight bend in the acrylic. Acrylic sheets are relatively inexpensive pretty and can be heat shaped very effectively.

Acrylic is usually bent in one of two ways with a strip heater for sharp bends or a heat gun for longer gentle bends. Place the part of the acrylic to be bent just above the open door wait for it to soften enough and then bend it to the angle desired. I ve seen people use everything from an oven to a hair dryer to an iron and. Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun.

There are blades and tools made specifically for cutting heating and bending acrylic but marija shows. Most scale models won t need bends in acrylic more than 1 16 inch thick. If you don t have a toaster oven you can carefully use a heat gun to heat the acrylic. Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic.

To create bends for small scale projects in plexiglass perspex or acrylic 1 8 inch and thinner you can use a small torch butane kitchen torches work well a paint stripping heat gun or an embossing heat tool which is a wand that works very similarly to a paint stripping gun. Ideal for perspex acrylic plexiglass polycarbonate. A heat gun which is an electrical tool.