How To Bend Acrylic Sheet Without Heat Gun

We demonstrate an easy way to cut and bend plastics to re use and recycle this incredible material into your projects you will need 1 heat source heat.

How to bend acrylic sheet without heat gun.

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. Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun. The operator uses levers to move the equivalent of the punch to cause the sheet to bend. This type of brake requires the operator to manually adjust all the critical parameters of the brake such as desired bending size and angle.

Preparing hot air gun w. Clamp the acrylic without backing paper to the form and begin passing the heatgun evenly over the top of the bend. Heat source small projects with bends that are close together will need upon heat source which can be easily aimed at small areas. Set up plastic or acrylic sheet in a simple bending jig.

As you see the acrylic droop over the form move the heatgun down to the next. This is where you can use the circular or table saw if you are cutting a jig. There are blades and tools made specifically for cutting heating and bending acrylic but marija shows that even without them acrylic can be cut and bent with a bit of care and patience. Tutorial for how to.

To bend acrylic sheet you will need. The two best tools for this are a small butane torch the type used in the kitchen work well or you can also use an embossing heat tool used by card makers and scrapbookers to melt and apply embossing powders. 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. A jig is a box or frame meant for holding a material and guiding a machine tool to the material.