How To Make A Plastic Sheet Bender

Cool vid from our pals at tap plastics showing how to build a strip heater which is commonly referred to as a plastic bender but really doesn t do any bending in and of itself.

How to make a plastic sheet bender. 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. It s just a long skinny heating element that makes it easy to soften a sheet of plastic along a straight line so you can bend it with your hands to an arbitrary angle and or against a jig for more precise control. Acrylic bender the mechatronics guy. Acrylic bender the mechatronics guy hot wire plastic get your bends just right glass folding heater bending fixture make a using stuff you.

Make a plastic bender using stuff you already have hackaday. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Diy acrylic plastic bending machine step 1. 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.

Diy acrylic sheet bender. Adding aluminium and tin cover.