How To Bend Acrylic Sheet At Home

Use long thin 1 inch or so in width test strips to practice your technique and learn how your particular heat source affects your chosen thickness of plastic.

How to bend acrylic sheet at home.

After removing the acrylic from the strip heater bend it in accordance with your desired shape. 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. Today we re using a line bender to form some acrylic for our new cnc dust shroud. This thing is really easy to make and.

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 this video i make a acrylic bending tool super useful for getting professional looking bends on plexiglass pieces. Heating is a slow process in order to make sure that you get a straight bend in the acrylic. I baked it at 180 celsius 350 f for about 12min.

Once heated it will bend easily. Leave the acrylic in a cool dry area for several minutes to cool. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push. 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.

The reason this works is because acrylic plastic actually melts at 405 f. Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic. 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.

Once it is at the required angle use a bending fixture to hold the sheeting in place.