Heat forming polycarbonate 

Nice. Thanks for not gunking up your video with stupid comments and unnecessary stuff. Straight to the point. Inspirational bro...

didn’t realize it was that easy, thanks for the help! you’ve just made a whole lot of others projects that much easier 👍

I like how you keep glancing up to see if we're still paying attention :)

Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks!

I thought fir a sec you made a tiny faceplate as example lol

Thanks. I did not know it was possible to shape it with heat. Am going to try it in future projects.

Thanks for sharing.

Interesting I went to here to see your process because I am also working on a railroad related project!

Very cool. I've heard you want good ventilation when doing that

If you take a wet washcloth and form it with that while holding it will set a whole lot fast

Thank you exaclty what i was looking for

Great video 👍 food for thought

Any ideas on how to make a dome using thin acrylic sheets? About 2mm

Thank you for posting this. I would like to thermoform something a little more complex than that (shroud inside of a headlight). It looks like the PC has to be held in place during cooling to maintain the new shape. If you had something that looked a little more like a mountain range and you laid the plastic over the top of it and heated it more, would it form to the mountain range or just sort of sag and create a warped sheet?

Heats thermoplastic on a thermoplastic bin. 😁

What temp does it become maleable

Nice video buddy. How many mm is your sheet? Do you think for 1 or 2mm thickness I could get away with a home hairdryer or do I need equipment as the one you are using ? Thanks, Stavros

Do your gloves leave any marks while its soft?

Aye that's good

I am trying to thermoform a sheet of pc 6mm thick to form a roughly 80mm OD half pipe. So far mixed results. If I over heat bubbling occurs. I have to figure out some kind of a jig. Temperature control. Prior drying of pc sheets. Etc. Not easy to get a reliable repeatable product.

Let’s say someone has access to a large oven, what temperature would lexan like this have to get too, to achieve a bend. Trying to use glass out of a car as a template to recreate in lexan.

Very cool!!

Ye ye thats a pretty good job nice work ! +rep

hi pal, I'll be trying to use PC as a taillight cover that was broken (lamps are rare and expensive), so it has to be formed to shape of the lamp. Any tips You could share? thanks

awesome!

Hiya, can you heat other polycarbonate together? like you do when wielding steel together?. Thanks for the video.

What would you recommend I use to bend acrylic into a bowl shape?

We get it.

Cool example. Thank you for this video. Simplicity said bill Gates

Awesome...

Been trying to do a pc .17 inch at least car roof and wondering if a heat gun ,little by little, will work in shaping it while the top is still on the car.... ???

What type of Polycarbonate did you use? Is it lexan?

Would it be possible to build a guitar like this?

Interessante👍👍👍

Does anyone know if you could just put the entire piece to be molded into water @ specific temperature and then apply it to the mold? Or will crack on cool down?

What a bout 2 or 3 inch poly

theoretically, if I heat up scratched polycarbonate, would the scratches fill in?

seems bubbles doesn't always happen on poycarbonate ?

nice😊

Good

What temp is best for forming? How hot is too hot? Bubbles?

Can you use a hair dryer?

can it be heated so it takes the shape of a mold eg. a bawl?

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I have plenty of bandwidth and this video gets stuck 10 seconds after starting.

doesnt heat make the Polycarbonate VERY brittle though now

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