by Jef Mangelschots

At the July 2010 meeting, Jim showed us a mold for bending Lexan. Purpose is to heat up a piece of Lexan in an oven, then gently bend it to the right form in the mold.

He also showed us some samples of heat-bended Lexan at various temperatures. The pictures shows us examples of Lexan that was heated too fast at too high temperature.

interesting links

I found the following link that can provide some more information about thermaforming Lexan:

• Polycarbonate forming guide
• How to heat and bend Lexan
• Thermoforming LEXAN sheet
• Lexan Polycarbonate sheet processing guide

video's

and here are a couple video's on working with Lexan: