Bend Acrylic Sheet Heat Gun

Never use water to cool the acrylic as this will make the acrylic brittle.

Bend acrylic sheet heat gun.

Here s a video showing my procedure for bending plexiglass with a heat gun. If you don t have a toaster oven you can carefully use a heat gun to heat the acrylic. When bending plexiglass you will need to have a straight edge to make sure you get a. Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun.

If you d like to reach out to us to. Tutorial for how to. Ideal for perspex acrylic plexiglass polycarbonate. 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.

Scoring is the best way to cut the acrylic in straight lines and then snap it like you do with glass. Today we re using a line bender to form some acrylic for our new cnc dust shroud. A heat gun which is an electrical tool. Then aim a heat gun at the point on the acrylic you want to bend.

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. Before you bend acrylic set it between 2 pieces of scrap wood and clamp them together with a vice. Preparing hot air gun w.

Bending plexiglas the proper way heating and forming. We re not that good at it come watch. Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass. 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.