Bending Acrylic Sheet With Heat Gun

I ve seen people use everything from an oven to a hair dryer to an iron and.

Bending acrylic sheet with heat gun.

A heat gun which is an electrical tool. Once heated it will bend easily. Set your acrylic between two pieces of scrap wood one of which. Acrylic is usually bent in one of two ways with a strip heater for sharp bends or a heat gun for longer gentle bends.

Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass. Gather the supplies you need in order to bend the acrylic with a heat gun. Bending plexiglas the proper way heating and forming. If you have a toaster oven set it to about 200º and leave the door slightly ajar.

Sheet of acrylic large enough for your needs. Determine the dimensions of what you are creating with the bent acrylic. The point is to have even heat and pressure so the bend is as straight as possible. The difficulty with small projects having tight bends close together is control of the heat source so the adjoining curve isn t affected.

When bending plexiglass you will need to have a straight edge to make sure you get a. Gather the supplies you need in order to bend the acrylic with a 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. When bending the acrylic you ll want to slowly wave the gun back and forth as close to the bend point as possible.

Bending acrylic with a heat gun 1. If you are creating an enclosure then you. There are blades and tools made specifically for cutting heating and bending acrylic but marija shows. It will start to bend a little at first and then much more quickly.

Acrylic sheets are relatively inexpensive pretty and can be heat shaped very effectively. Most scale models won t need bends in acrylic more than 1 16 inch thick. 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.

Push back and down on the acrylic at the same time with a flat piece of wood. 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.