How To Bend Plexiglass Sheets Into A Cylinder

It is limited to two dimensional forming but is viable for bending sheet thicknesses of up to about two inches.

How to bend plexiglass sheets into a cylinder.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. And the relative flexibility of polycarbonate sheets which can be bent to a limit without breaking has allowed the transfer of this technology in the. Mark your plexiglas sheet along the line where you want to bend it. Brake bending is a technique that uses a device known as a press brake to alter the sheet into the desired final form.

Don t put it to close because that will cause it to burn. Ensure good ventilation because heated acrylic creates mildly toxic fumes. 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. Be sure that the marked line is above the heating element.

Set the sheet of acrylic across the rests on the strip heater and turn it on. Plexiglass is known to hold shape and be very durable. Diy soda fountain machine. Turn the sheet of acrylic over on the heating element every 30 60 seconds in order to avoid damaging it.

This is the completed form you will use to bend your acrylic sheet. Wear gloves as you do this to avoid burning your hands. Screw the boards together through the second board straight into the base board placing a screw every 6 inches. Strip heat bending utilizes infrared elements and may degrade the sheet if heating cycles are exceeded.

The press brake has a long history of use in shaping sheet metal. A typical forced circulation air oven is shown in figure 1.