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. Make a plastic bender using stuff you already have hackaday. 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. Adding aluminium and tin cover. 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.

Next step was to secure particle board from high 400 watt header lamp. I had few left over particle board chip board pieces i managed to find 3. Diy acrylic plastic bending machine step 1. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.

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. Diy acrylic sheet bender.