How To Bend Acrylic Sheet At Home

Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic.

How to bend acrylic sheet at home.

If the area to bend is on an outer curve or bend or if you want to create a tighter corner try using a frying pan on low heat to hold the plastic area to bend. In this video i make a acrylic bending tool super useful for getting professional looking bends on plexiglass pieces. This thing is really easy to make and. The reason this works is because acrylic plastic actually melts at 405 f.

Heating is a slow process in order to make sure that you get a straight bend in the acrylic. After removing the acrylic from the strip heater bend it in accordance with your desired shape. Prepare your heat gun for bending the acrylic. I baked it at 180 celsius 350 f for about 12min.

If you d like to reach out to us to. I was only putting in a simple bend so i used wood blocks cut at the angle i needed one for each side of the acrylic plus the cool metal bench to press against. To set up your plastic or acrylic sheet to bend simple curves for your miniature and model projects you need to first remove the protective covering from the material you wish to bend. In the case of a sharp edged design remember to bend it with the cut edge on the outside.

We re not that good at it come watch. Fyi tonight i oven bent 10mm acrylic. Once it is at the required angle use a bending fixture to hold the sheeting in place. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push.

Today we re using a line bender to form some acrylic for our new cnc dust shroud.