Category Archives: Tools
If you’re really serious about bending plastic
This goes well beyond the average hobbiest, but if you’re someone who regularly needs to bend and form things like PVC pipe, you know you need a large heat source. This HotBend hand-held propane heater will get the job done!
Home built heater for plastic folding
Here is a home-built heating strip that allowed the creation of bent acrylic panels for a custom panel in a computer.
Posted in How-To, Plastic Folding, Tools
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Make custom tools with Friendly Plastic / Shapelock
Here’s a good how-to showing how you can use the low temperature plastics called Shapelock or Friendly Plastic to make custom tools.
Posted in Friendly Plastic, How-To, Shapelock, Tools
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