Bending Plastic Sheet With Heat Gun

Prepare your heat gun for bending the acrylic.

Bending plastic sheet with 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. Here are two methods of welding plastic. A heat gun or a plastic welding kit a. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push.

Repeat this process until the material has softened to an acceptable level. This includes any plastic made from high density polyethylene hdpe and polypropylene pp. Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun. Only that the operator is now forced to move the heat gun constantly along the bend line and flip over the polycarbonate sheet to ensure both sides get heated.

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. Polystyrene is used to form a shell around your mold. The only way to truly fuse them together with any lasting effort is by using high heat. If you want to use polystyrene you have 2 options.

Forming a radius can also be done by using a heat gun using a back and forth motion across the length of the sheet both top and bottom until the material is soft enough to start bending. Preparing hot air gun w. We recommend the thickest because the finished product will be a lot firmer. Keep the gun at a distance of at least 8 to 12 do not get the heat too close to the material as blistering may occur.

Ideal for perspex acrylic plexiglass polycarbonate. Heating is a slow process in order to make sure that you get a straight bend in the acrylic. Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass. You can see this in the video below.

Hold the heat gun 3 to 4 inches above the pvc and move it side to side along the pipe about 12 inches depending on the size of the bend you hope to achieve. Here s a video showing my procedure for bending plexiglass with a heat gun. Tutorial for how to. You can use the 1mm but you have to be more cautious in the heating process and your finished product will be less firm.

Once glue is applied its bond is really only temporary.