Bend Acrylic Sheet Heat Gun

Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass.

Bend acrylic sheet heat gun.

If you d like to reach out to us to. When bending plexiglass you will need to have a straight edge to make sure you get a. Preparing hot air gun w. A heat gun which is an electrical tool.

Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass. Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun. Bending plexiglas the proper way heating and forming. As the acrylic heats up move the heat gun from side to side and steadily push on it with a piece of scrap wood to help it bend.

Bending acrylic is best done with a strip heater or line bender but you can use an ordinary oven set at 120 160c use a jig or former to get the angle correct. Before you bend acrylic set it between 2 pieces of scrap wood and clamp them together with a vice. Tutorial for how to. Gather the supplies you need in order to bend the acrylic with a heat gun sheet of acrylic large enough for your needs.

Never use water to cool the acrylic as this will make the acrylic brittle. Then aim a heat gun at the point on the acrylic you want to bend. Ideal for perspex acrylic plexiglass polycarbonate. Scoring is the best way to cut the acrylic in straight lines and then snap it like you do with glass.

We re not that good at it come watch. If you have a toaster oven set it to about 200º and leave the door slightly ajar. 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 but using a smaller more directed heat flow with a smaller fan. Today we re using a line bender to form some acrylic for our new cnc dust shroud.