Bending Acrylic Sheet With Heat Gun

There are blades and tools made specifically for cutting heating and bending acrylic but marija shows.

Bending acrylic sheet with heat gun.

Sheet of acrylic large enough for your needs. Diy soda fountain machine. Preparing hot air gun w. Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic.

Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun. 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. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push.

If you don t have a toaster oven you can carefully use a heat gun to heat the acrylic. Bending plexiglas the proper way heating and forming. Acrylic sheets are relatively inexpensive pretty and can be heat shaped very effectively. Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass.

I ve seen people use everything from an oven to a hair dryer to an iron and. Tutorial for how to. The difficulty with small projects having tight bends close together is control of the heat source so the adjoining curve isn t affected. Here s a video showing my procedure for bending plexiglass with a heat gun.

Gather the supplies you need in order to bend the acrylic with a heat gun. Heating is a slow process in order to make sure that you get a straight bend in the acrylic. When bending plexiglass you will need to have a straight edge to make sure you get a. Most scale models won t need bends in acrylic more than 1 16 inch thick.

A heat gun which is an electrical tool. Prepare your heat gun for bending 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.