How To Bend Acrylic Sheet At Home

Once heated it will bend easily.

How to bend acrylic sheet at home.

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. Prepare your heat gun for bending the acrylic.

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. Fyi tonight i oven bent 10mm acrylic. I baked it at 180 celsius 350 f for about 12min. If you d like to reach out to us to.

Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push. Once it is at the required angle use a bending fixture to hold the sheeting in place. We re not that good at it come watch.

This thing is really easy to make and. 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. Leave the acrylic in a cool dry area for several minutes to cool. 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.