Bend Acrylic Sheet Heat Gun

Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass.

Bend acrylic sheet heat gun.

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. Ideal for perspex acrylic plexiglass polycarbonate. Bending plexiglas the proper way heating and forming. Preparing hot air gun w.

Before you bend acrylic set it between 2 pieces of scrap wood and clamp them together with a vice. If you have a toaster oven set it to about 200º and leave the door slightly ajar. 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 sheet of acrylic large enough for your needs.

Today we re using a line bender to form some acrylic for our new cnc dust shroud. Scoring is the best way to cut the acrylic in straight lines and then snap it like you do with glass. If you don t have a toaster oven you can carefully use a heat gun to heat the acrylic. As the acrylic heats up move the heat gun from side to side and steadily push on it with a piece of scrap wood to help it bend.

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

Here s a video showing my procedure for bending plexiglass with a heat gun. Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun. A heat gun which is an electrical tool. We re not that good at it come watch.