Acrylic Sheet Heat Bender

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Acrylic sheet heat bender.

Trays bars single bends made easily. When using these makeshift methods bend the acrylic against the edge of a piece of wood or metal for straight clean corners. V groove attachment creates sharp nonradius. Bending fixtures bends cooled at any set angle.

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. Tutorial for how to. Use wood or metal supports not included under the sheet during heating. If you need to make further bends let the first bend cool before continuing so you don t lose it.

Preparing hot air gun w. Plexiglass bending machine is a useful tool for softening and bending acrylic organic glass plexiglass pvc pc abs pp sheet into shapes. Heating time varies between 30 seconds and 12 minutes based on material type and thickness. Acrylic pvc plastic strip heater 110v bending machine 24 inch 60cm manual hot heating bender tool 1mm 6mm thickness for sign making 4 0 out of 5 stars 3 119 99 119.

It is our mission at abbeon to provide project solutions and outstanding customer service. 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. Even heat many sizes to choose from. Maximum bending width 1220mm 48.

Place a sheet between the heating bars to soften it. Call us at 800 922 0977. Then aim a heat gun at the point on the acrylic you want to bend. Power 1500w power supply ac110v 220v 50 60hz.

Plastic bending machine is widely used in school technical courses building model decoration engineering sign making display case market shelves advertising light box artware making etc. If you don t have a toaster oven you can carefully use a heat gun to heat the acrylic. These benders are compatible with plastics such as acrylic polyethylene polypropylene polycarbonate pvc cpvc abs and kydex. 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.

Bending tables pneumatic dual heat single or double bends and more. Silicon heaters blankets economical options for bending plastics. You can also use many acrylic bender heaters to heat more bents at the same time. If the thickness of acrylic sheet is beyond 6mm you can use two heaters heat the top and bottom of the sheet at the same time or you need to cut a slot on the sheet.