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| selfie:
--- Quote from: Azure on September 01, 2012, 06:11:34 am ---Selfie: That is incredible. Judging by the front of that joystick enclosure, you used heat to bend it? --- End quote --- That's right. The two bends were made on a "line bender" or "strip heater" it's basically a single heating element with guides to confine the heat to a narrow spot. |
| korbitz:
Hi Selfie, I got a question for you regarding bending plastic/perspex/acrylic, in my jukebox build i will be attempting to make the outside light tubes, obviously the straight pieces are easy enough :laugh2: , what would be required to bend around a circle if at all possible, i will do the straight parts using the oven method and onto a mould, can i do the same with the curved sections? Here is a link to my project. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130980.0.html Cheers |
| selfie:
I will reply in your build thread... |
| z-kun:
--- Quote from: PL1 on August 07, 2012, 02:41:27 am --- --- Quote from: selfie on March 28, 2012, 09:19:04 pm ---NEVER USE SUPERGLUE. It will cloud and craze the acrylic and not bond well. --- End quote --- I'm thinking about gluing inserts printed on .004" thick clear inkjet transparency media to the diffuser disc and gluing the diffuser to the plunger on my Paradise Arcade LED admin buttons to keep them from turning during button presses. Any idea what adhesive(s) would be suited to these materials? Would Weld-On 16 or even superglue be OK because of the optical properties of the diffuser? Scott --- End quote --- I have actually had some luck using fabric glue to glue images to plastic, though for reference, the plastic I was gluing paper to was the type used on packages that dolls and action figures come in, not acrylic. I used Aleene's Flexible Stretchable fabric glue, as it dries clear and it was what I had on-hand. Jo-Anne's and Michael's carries it for sure, though other places might have it, too (but Jo-Anne's and Michael's will e-mail out very nice 40-60% off coupons fairly frequently AND they take each other's coupons). EDIT: Whoops; I didn't notice how old that post was; I just looked at the dates on the most recent posts and didn't look at the date on yours in particular. |
| selfie:
--- Quote from: z-kun on March 19, 2013, 11:42:32 am --- I have actually had some luck using fabric glue to glue images to plastic, though for reference, the plastic I was gluing paper to was the type used on packages that dolls and action figures come in, not acrylic. --- End quote --- Just for reference the material used in that style packaging is generally PET (polyethyltetrahydrate) or styrene |
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