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<blockquote data-quote="craig" data-source="post: 50966" data-attributes="member: 1959"><p>Bought a 12" x 14" piece of acrylic clear .093" thick at Lowes $ 4.</p><p>Bought an acrylic scoring tool $4 Lowes. </p><p>Cut an aluminum pattern for the top/bottom acrylic curve out of .060 alum scrap.</p><p>clamped to work bench, scored the curve, piece cracked apart ruined when I tried to flex/crack it.</p><p>Found out when you score a curve, you have to score thru the piece 100%, all the way thru, for the piece to be successful.</p><p>Ended up with a nice piece and a scrap that looked like it was usable as well. Decided to use scrap piece to learn how to heat bend , drill holes, mount, and test ride.</p><p>Here it is .....scrap piece bent with heat gun....drilled, mounted...........took it for a ride.</p><p>Set the heat gun on the workbench, held the plastic piece you are looking at (with protective plastic still on both sides) up to the gun maybe 4" away, moved it around to evenly heat.</p><p>As it heated, I simply bent the plastic by hand, be careful with fingers holding plastic near heat gun! Do it once with scrap , you will see how to do, no need to remove protective plastic until bent and drilled.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]2330[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="craig, post: 50966, member: 1959"] Bought a 12" x 14" piece of acrylic clear .093" thick at Lowes $ 4. Bought an acrylic scoring tool $4 Lowes. Cut an aluminum pattern for the top/bottom acrylic curve out of .060 alum scrap. clamped to work bench, scored the curve, piece cracked apart ruined when I tried to flex/crack it. Found out when you score a curve, you have to score thru the piece 100%, all the way thru, for the piece to be successful. Ended up with a nice piece and a scrap that looked like it was usable as well. Decided to use scrap piece to learn how to heat bend , drill holes, mount, and test ride. Here it is .....scrap piece bent with heat gun....drilled, mounted...........took it for a ride. Set the heat gun on the workbench, held the plastic piece you are looking at (with protective plastic still on both sides) up to the gun maybe 4" away, moved it around to evenly heat. As it heated, I simply bent the plastic by hand, be careful with fingers holding plastic near heat gun! Do it once with scrap , you will see how to do, no need to remove protective plastic until bent and drilled. [ATTACH=full]2330[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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