Bending Acrylic Sheet In Oven

Use the spare piece of flat scrap wood to push the acrylic back and down while you aim the heat gun at the acrylic.

Bending acrylic sheet in oven.

Bake and set the timer. Lay your plastic on your heat safe work surface and place a scrap of stripwood over your plastic roughly 1 4 of an inch in front of where you want your bend to be. Place a plexiglass sheet on large pan and place on the middle oven rack. Essentially drape forming bottom is clamping a piece of sheet plastic in some type of clamping mechanism putting this material into a heating oven heating the plastic sheet up to a desired temperature retracting it from the oven draping it over a mold trapping the sheet just inside the clamping mechanism over the edge of the mold flange and applying a vacuum to the mold chamber.

The example here is the outside of a mold but it can work inside too. Make adjustments appropriate to the specifications of your project. To view this site you must enable javascript or upgrade to a javascript capable browser. This will be somewhat determined by the thickness of your plastic.

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Preheat oven to 300 degrees fahrenheit. The large pan prevents the plexiglass from coming into contact with the hot rack which can distort the plexiglass due to uneven heating. Place the part of the acrylic to be bent just above the open door wait for it to soften enough and then bend it to the angle desired. You should have thermal gloves when removing the sheet from the oven.

Javascript is disabled on your browser. Heat for approximately five minutes. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees f. Have a mold ready to use.

If you have a toaster oven set it to about 200º and leave the door slightly ajar. If you don t have a toaster oven you can carefully use a heat gun to heat the acrylic. Unwrap the acrylic from its protective sheets. It is then held in place until it cools down.

Remove from the oven. Thicker plastic will need a wider radius curve for most bends. Make your pressure on the acrylic as even as possible while you push. Prepare your heat gun for bending the acrylic.

Heating is a slow process in order to make sure that you get a straight bend in the acrylic.