Form Bending Sheet Acrylic for a Curved Display Case 

Looks nice. Beside the explosion safety concern, any time you're heating any kind of plastic, you must vent. Plastic fumes are toxic.

Thank you, This is just what I needed tot bend a screen for my motorcycle. :) :) :) :) :) 😃

Instead of aluminum, which is not perfectly flat, in the oven, I'd recommend using a silicon mat. That's what we do in our heat press, to prevent the canvas / paint texture of both plates from marring the acrylic sheet: we use 2 identical silicon mats, about 24" x 18" ( 1/16 thick or so ) to sandwich the acrylic. Then, use the silicon mat to lift the acrylic out of the oven, and deposit it onto your form. Keep the warm silicon mat underneath, on you form. Don't use the cloth, as the warm silicon mat - with residual heat from the oven - will ensure that the acrylic sheet cools _slowly and evenly_ over your form: you don't want big differentials in temperature between surfaces, as this will warble the acrylic; also, the cloth texture could potentially imprint on the hot acrylic.

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What a great idea! Love how you explained it so perfectly! Thank you 😊

Thanks for the warning about potential explosions! As my oven is decades old there's zero chance that I'll risk it. I think instead I'll try draping the sheet of acrylic over my form and using a heat gun to slowly heat it and hopefully it will become flexible enough to form to the form.

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Outstanding display, thank you great tips on bending on acrylics.

Work, details, information = just great! I watched other videos, well... this is the one I needed. Thank you!

Very nice video. This band saw / router jig is very useful. And thanks for providing the heating temperatures

Great information. Thanks so much!

Very informative. Tx for sharing

Thank you for this awesome video. This is extremely helping with the project i have in mind. I would like to add as a former appliance repair tech. A residential gas oven, the gas valve opens and closes keeping the temperature of the oven with a certain range. Up to +/-15 degrees depending on the brand oven. Hence the sound of the low sounding ignition or "woof' sound. Compared to a commercial oven where its keeps stable and constant temp. So even though you have your temp set to 350 degrees, again depending on your brand oven, it actually could be fluctuating at a temp range of 375 to 345 in order to maintain that 350. With this info, be extremely careful with the vapor build up within the oven

Great video thank you for the math formula

thank you for providing an interesting video presentation on how to make prints which is very easy to understand I pray that you are always healthy and continue to work so that it benefits everyone🙏 greetings from Indonesia👌

I've used a torch to bend acrylic before and it never caught on fire, it bubbled on a spot i was on to long on the test piece.

I enjoyed the video, and it has given me some ideas for future projects! 😊

thank you very much

Thanks for the temp issue with safety concerns. I will do mine outside, with a heat gun.

Thank you

Good video, thanks for sharing.

Nicely done. Your duel step circle cutting jig is very interesting. Perhaps that could be a future video?

You are the man!

Exactly what I needed -- thanks for doing this! ( I also found it fun that we have the same ol Delta chop saw.... still going strong, although the laser gave out about a yr after purchase. )

Nicely done, and very informative. I really like that circle cutting jig and the dual method for getting a very clean outer edge. I also appreciate the information and how you managed to obtain the bend. For me, the concern is not so much the temperature of the oven and flammability of the acrylic but that as chemicals offgas from the heated acrylic, they plate onto the inner surfaces of the oven where you will be cooking food later on. So, they may get onto your food and then of course you’d be eating it. Further, if you have an oven that cleans itself by heating up very hot, those same chemicals that plated out would be converted into something that may be noxious to you and anyone else. Caution is advised! 👀 My wife would have a fit if I were to do this in our oven! 😁 I really enjoy your videos and I hope you keep it up!

Awesome thanks

Thank you for the lesson on heating the acrylic. I want to form a cylinder for a cake stand. Have you formed a cylinder yet?

Great content! What thickness acrylic was that if you dont mind me asking?

Just use a piece string to measure

I need to do something similar and Im ok with trying the oven but a quick question, is your oven gas or electric? I would thing electric would be safer if there was a buildup of the flammable gas.

Hope you are doing well , sorry to bother , just wanted to know is there same technique for polycarbonate ?

I used my wife's tea kettle to steam some wooden strips for bending. She wasn't overly enthused. I'd like to know your wife's response to the acrylic sheet heating in the oven. Inquiring minds...

did you use a wood blade on that table saw?

Use a heat gun next time much safer and better to work with they cost roughly $25

My project is 42" X 23" . Finding someone to let me use their commercial oven is probably not an option.