Bending Acrylic Sheet With Heat Gun Temperature

Ambient oven temperature also affects the heating cycle.

Bending acrylic sheet with heat gun temperature. It s important to heat the tubing evenly so rotate it and also move it back and forth so. Gather the supplies you need in order to bend the acrylic with a heat gun sheet of acrylic large enough for your needs. Sheet compared with about 10 to 12 minutes for air oven heating. Principally using a heat gun to bend a polycarbonate sheet is the same as hot line bending.

Fortunately today s technology has produced affordable hand held non contact infrared pyrometers that can be used to determine the sheet surface temperature. Place the heat gun on your surface facing up and then hold the tube over the nozzle about 3 5cm above. To achieve this core temperature the former must calculate the temperature differential on both sheet surfaces. If you don t have a toaster oven you can carefully use a heat gun to heat the acrylic.

Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic. Place the part of the acrylic to be bent just above the open door wait for it to soften enough and then bend it to the angle desired. You can see this in the video below. There are blades and tools made specifically for cutting heating and bending acrylic but marija shows.

Bending polycarbonate sheet with a heat gun. Heating is a slow process in order to make sure that you get a straight bend in the acrylic. A heat gun which is an electrical tool. Acrylic sheets are relatively inexpensive pretty and can be heat shaped very effectively.

When bending plexiglass you will need to have a straight edge to make sure you get a. 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. Acrylic sheet heated from one side may vary from one to three minutes depending on the type of heater and the distance from the heating surface to the plexiglas acrylic. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push.

If you have a toaster oven set it to about 200º and leave the door slightly ajar. Temperature uniformity varies with heater model.