Diy acrylic plastic bending machine step 1.
How to make a plastic sheet bender.
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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.
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I had few left over particle board chip board pieces i managed to find 3.
It s just a long skinny heating element that makes it easy to soften a sheet of plastic along a straight line so you can bend it with your hands to an arbitrary angle and or against a jig for more precise control.
Diy acrylic sheet bender.
Cool vid from our pals at tap plastics showing how to build a strip heater which is commonly referred to as a plastic bender but really doesn t do any bending in and of itself.
Set up plastic or acrylic sheet in a simple bending jig.
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