Diy acrylic plastic bending machine step 1.
How to make a plastic sheet bender.
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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.
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Set up plastic or acrylic sheet in a simple bending jig.
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.
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.
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Diy acrylic sheet bender.
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