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Originally Posted by kramarczyk
We used sheet ABS for our control board last year and were pretty happy with it.
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Where did you buy your sheet ABS (model# and thickness) ?
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Originally Posted by kramarczyk
Finally we clamped the sheet to the workbench with a piece of aluminum angle and heated the bend line with a heat gun till we could bend it easily by hand. Repeat until all the bends are complete.
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Were you happy with this process, was it difficult to uniformly apply the heat ? We are considering other ways of heating the material like using a heat strip from Tap Plastics :
http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=169&
They have some neat videos about bending and molding plastics.
http://www.tapplastics.com/info/video.php?