Bending Acrylic Sheet With Heat Gun

If you have a toaster oven set it to about 200º and leave the door slightly ajar.

Bending acrylic sheet with heat gun.

Bending plexiglas the proper way heating and forming. Acrylic is usually bent in one of two ways with a strip heater for sharp bends or a heat gun for longer gentle bends. Ideal for perspex acrylic plexiglass polycarbonate. When bending plexiglass you will need to have a straight edge to make sure you get a.

Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass. Gather the supplies you need in order to bend the acrylic with a heat gun. Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic. Most scale models won t need bends in acrylic more than 1 16 inch thick.

Tutorial for how to. If you don t have a toaster oven you can carefully use a heat gun to heat the acrylic. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push. Here s a video showing my procedure for bending plexiglass with a heat gun.

Sheet of acrylic large enough for your needs. The difficulty with small projects having tight bends close together is control of the heat source so the adjoining curve isn t affected. I ve seen people use everything from an oven to a hair dryer to an iron and. Acrylic sheets are relatively inexpensive pretty and can be heat shaped very effectively.

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. Preparing hot air gun w. Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun. 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.

A heat gun which is an electrical tool. There are blades and tools made specifically for cutting heating and bending acrylic but marija shows. Prepare your heat gun for bending the acrylic.