Uses of Lexan

[Bill Klein]

Originally Posted by kaliken

Do you happen to have a picture of it or a diagram of it? Your bender sounds like a great addition to any team!

Photo is posted. Thanks Rob Chapman for the pic and details.

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/43953?

Search Youtube for "acrylic bender" and many tutorials come up. Most are 2-3 feet long and are attached to a variable power supply. Since we didn't have a variable power supply, however, the length was determined experimentally using our available DC voltage (12V robot batteries).

It's about 17 inches clip-to-clip.

The 20-gauge nichrome wire was sourced on eBay.

The circuit should be fused for 20 amps.

The one we made was modeled after this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XveHMbzbyYQ