Bending Plastic Sheet With Heat Gun

Heating is a slow process in order to make sure that you get a straight bend in the acrylic.

Bending plastic sheet with heat gun.

Here s a video showing my procedure for bending plexiglass with a heat gun. Preparing hot air gun w. Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic. Prepare your heat gun for bending the acrylic.

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. Tutorial for how to. Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun. Testing a heat gun as method for bending plexiglass.

Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push. 1 4 abs plastic can be bent using a heat gun to soften it up and then shape it manually.