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Bending Acrylic for some desk plaques
Hi all,
This might be a bit of a newbie question, i have a job where i need to bend some white 3mm acrylic into table plaques A5 size portrait, there will be only 1 bend in each to create an a frame desk sign. Any ideas how i go about bending the acrylic, i have no special machinery, am i better off out sourcing?
Thanks
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Did this back at school.
The machine we had was a bit like a long thin toaster. You held the acrylic over the opening and the heat would soften the plastic.
That’s a very simple description. Whether a blow lamp would do it I don’t know and I wouldn’t try it with the risk of burning & bubbling.
Give Flooreda a ring 0161 442 3551, I’ve used the before for making up stencils for a client.
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quote Matthew Chittenden:Hi all,This might be a bit of a newbie question, i have a job where i need to bend some white 3mm acrylic into table plaques A5 size portrait, there will be only 1 bend in each to create an a frame desk sign. Any ideas how i go about bending the acrylic, i have no special machinery, am i better off out sourcing?
Thanks
MattUsed to to a good bit of this years ago with a hot wire bending machine. Don’t have one nowadays though:
http://www.mastergrave.co.uk/catalogue/ … ory_ID=113Neil
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quote Martin Gray:Is this any help to you?http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=17604
Martin
very simple solution as martin has pointed out.
either that or buy in from http://www.ukpos.com/
detail of them and similar suppliers can be found on the SIGN TOOLBAR Under Suppliers tab, No. 25
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