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Originally Posted by monocus
just go slowly, moving the heat gun at a medium pace.it will take time.you can also heat the acrylic in a moderately heated oven first
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Cool, I tried on a small piece of scrap acrylic and was pretty impressed with how easy it was to bend.
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Originally Posted by sphelps
I'd use an oven for the bending, a heat gun on that size of sheet will likely give less than steller results.
170°C should work well for cast material but don't use a gas oven. For best results build a wood mold with the right curvature and place the sheet on top of it in the pre-heated oven. The sheet will form around it by itself.
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I have a piece of large 24" PVC that I was going to use to bend the acrylic around as a mold. I don't know if I could fit it in an oven, but I do think that method is definitely better than the heat gun.