Full Version: Bending plastic
From: Jim (PUZZLEHEAD) [#6]
6 Feb 2005
To: geebeau [#1] 7 Feb 2005
The cost of a strip heater is an excellent investment. Mine pays for itself several times over every single week. If I used it for nothing more than foldover type name badges, it would pay for itself every week. I also do a lot of free standing signs and I have bent over 2 million restaurant table or tray tents with it. You can also make things like machine safety shields, Lane Closed signs for grocery stores, Next Teller Please signs, clear acrylic literature holders and unusually shaped industrial panels. I have several chains of jewelry stores that buy lots of tiny free standing price tags from me. When I want to make a softer bend in the plastic (which is most of the time) I put a piece of U-Channel aluminum over the heat strip so it heats a slightly wider strip of plastic.
I love the smell of melting plastic in the morning..........The smell, you know that plastic smell, the whole shop, smells like...Profit!
From: Zonas [#7]
12 Feb 2005
To: geebeau [#1] 12 Feb 2005
There was a previous discussion about this starting with posting # 272.1
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