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In this video i show you how to mold acrylic. This is the most difficult step to building a bowfront aquarium.
Molding Acrylic is something that would prove useful if ever needing to bend or curve an acrylic panel.
In this video you will learn a simple and easy DIY way to curve an acrylic panel.
Curving an acrylic panel would be most popular with a bowfront aquarium, an overflow weir or a seamless aquarium.
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This is very helpful, I plan on building a corner terrarium using this technique
you save my project ! thank you .
Thanks a ton for the info
I'm looking to convert my old 36 gallon bowfront aquarium to a snake bioactive terrarium, I am having the hardest time finding a mesh top. Any tips on making one?
3:05, go ahead and start there
Stop saying NONETHELESS!!
Hi what is the temperature you make the oven?. Thanks
Fantastic job bro. You helped me a lot.
Great video, — just what I needed — keeping it simple.
Why not use wax paper
This will work I guess, but the correct way is not that hard, make a wooden template(negative) and let gravity do the job inside the oven at a low temperature, that is how professional do it.
this method will give dents in the acrylic , so u need specially prepared surface , or easier to let it sag while its fixed from both ends in parallel , if u want tighter arc , shorten distance between fixtures .
Thanks for the info and vid!
Excellent video. No fluff, straight to the point. Thank you SIR!
omg my dog could do that and she's dead
Nice ..
A terracotta pipe or pot could be a good mold for in the oven…if the acrylic stuck to the acrylic just wrap the terracotta in foil…
When you are holding and pressing the acrylic over the form, does the imprint from the oven mitt, or whatever gloves you use, end up in the surface of the acrylic? Basically, do you have to worry about fingerprints in the acrylic as you hold it?
BTW, keep up the great work, your efforts are much appreciated.
Nonetheless… this video could have been half as long.
thanks, this video was the best of all the videos. I am trying to make furniture on a very small scale, and there is nothing out there to show me except for your video.
Interesting. I want to build a weird shaped tank in the future. I think it would be cool to like integrate it a cat tunnel/bed. You know like the large scale things people can walk in or stick their heads in.
Any recommendations on where to buy acrylic sheets?
you are awesome man, simple and clear, Thank you very much !!!!
you can bend an acrylic using an industrial hot blower and it is safe .
What temperature do you heat the acrylic at?
So if u mess up on the molding can u re bake it
Now I can make 100"$ of things from my old pizza oven, NICE ONE BRUV!.
Sorry dumb questions but no fumes at all doing this in the oven?? I am thinking of using this technique to mold acrylic for a pseudokriesel.
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That's too complex for acrylic, Guy or Thomas's… Just too many complex curves.. Most people bending acrylic a home will bend it along one axis. That's not to big of a deal. But when you need to bend it along two axes (Complex) its about the limit of acrylic. Imagine an fighter jet canopy, it's bent over from left to right as well as front to back. Bending in multiple directions like a daft punk helmet requires vacuum molded plastics.
hmmm , how do you mean free foarm complex , i wanted to make a daft punk helmet visor , which do you think is the best temp for the acrylic to do this?
I have build my first 30 L aqaurium next to my 120 ltr 😀
but then disaster striked the bowfront snapped in 2 pieces
3mm sheet should be enough :/
too bad iam going to get 6 mm it will be fine i hope
you actually heard it cracking :S luckyly there whas only a stream of water coming out 😀 so i put a bucket underneath it and everything whas fine