Homemade Plastic Sheet Bender

Cool vid from our pals at tap plastics showing how to build a strip heater which is commonly referred to as a plastic bender but really doesn t do any bending in and of itself.

Homemade plastic sheet bender.

Here is one way of doing it. Homemade plastic bender based on harold hall s design. It works so well so i m surprised myself. It s just a long skinny heating element that makes it easy to soften a sheet of plastic along a straight line so you can bend it with your hands to an arbitrary angle and or against a jig for more precise control.

I think this is one of the best tools i ve been doing for a long time on my channel. Curtain wire is used for the heating element. It s pretty big so you can sta. Homemade plastic bending machine bend o matic 1000 duration.

Current provided by a 12 volt 60 watt transformer.