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Steve
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Going to do a little experiment today by trying to thermoform a small piece of scrap lexan i have into a shape by clamping it round some form of curve then putting it in the oven, with a view to maybe making my own thermoformed rear windows for pumas out of lexan

the temp that its meant to be thermoformed at is 135degrees

but i have no idea how long I should leave it in there for, any idea?
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Try an hour.
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Jesus that long lol I was going to.give it 15 mins
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finished my experiment





after 30 mins





cool, might see if i can sort a boot lid now for the glass for as cheap as possible to use as a mould
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What's the plan to keep something bigger up to temp?
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take it to a bodyshop or powdercoaters with an oven was my thinking
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Does Lexan go rubbery when heated like acrylic? Usually takes about 15-20 mins to get acrylic up to temp depending on a few obvious factors.
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kind of just seemed to go soft and bendy, 30 mins seemed about right
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That's cool as fuck...
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Is that gas mark 3 or 4.
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Microwave on 5
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Will it blend?
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Put a couple of bits of plate running along the edges under the clamps to bring the corners in next time maybe
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oh yeah will be using more clamps and making sure it all lies flat in the final attempt
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You'll have to get some way to clamp the middle possibly? Or will it form properly if it's just clamped along the edge?
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If he does it how imagine it will just form to shape
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It's a good point won't know until I try and clamp it round, window isn't as curved as what I made mind
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ive got a puma boot you can have for £15
infact ive got 2 lol
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I don't imagine postage would be cheap though lol
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megga road trip lol
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balls to that lol, can you cut the glass out? i reckon postage would be reasonable for just that
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il have a look,
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cheers dude
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You know what you could do - vac bag the plastic over the glass and then heat it. Obviously don't put it under full vacuum until the plastic has become malleable so you don't break the glass. You ought to get a good shape that way.
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Trouble is I don't have the heating facility's to play about like that would literally have to clamp it to glass and.give it to powdercoaters for half an hour

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