Acrylic Sheet Heat Bender

Trays bars single bends made easily.

Acrylic sheet heat bender.

Tutorial for how to. You can also use many acrylic bender heaters to heat more bents at the same time. 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. It is our mission at abbeon to provide project solutions and outstanding customer service.

Plexiglass bending machine is a useful tool for softening and bending acrylic organic glass plexiglass pvc pc abs pp sheet into shapes. Silicon heaters blankets economical options for bending plastics. Place a sheet between the heating bars to soften it. Use wood or metal supports not included under the sheet during heating.

Bending shaping plastic with hot air gun heat gun. 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. Bending fixtures bends cooled at any set angle. 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.

These benders are compatible with plastics such as acrylic polyethylene polypropylene polycarbonate pvc cpvc abs and kydex. V groove attachment creates sharp nonradius. Then aim a heat gun at the point on the acrylic you want to bend. Ideal for perspex acrylic plexiglass polycarbonate.

Bending tables pneumatic dual heat single or double bends and more. 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. Heating time varies between 30 seconds and 12 minutes based on material type and thickness. Call us at 800 922 0977.

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. When using these makeshift methods bend the acrylic against the edge of a piece of wood or metal for straight clean corners. Featuring the top brands in plastic bending equipment. If you need to make further bends let the first bend cool before continuing so you don t lose it.

If you don t have a toaster oven you can carefully use a heat gun to heat the acrylic. Abbeon industrial plastic working equipment precision instruments. 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. Maximum bending width 1220mm 48.