How To Bend Plastic Sheet At Home

Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun.

How to bend plastic sheet at home.

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. The reason this works is because acrylic plastic actually melts at 405 f. Then use your bend allowance to draw your second bend line the intervening distance between your bend lines bend radius. 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.

Tutorial for how to. 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. The sheet is placed on the heater and turned when one side is hot or maybe more than once. Prepare your heat gun for bending the acrylic.

Ideal for perspex acrylic plexiglass polycarbonate. 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. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push. Heating is a slow process in order to make sure that you get a straight bend in the acrylic.

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. This video segment will show you how to bend plastic using the briskheat strip heater. 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 order the briskheat strip heater go to this link.

Once heated it will bend easily. 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. Making a abs plastic mount for welts box chevy.