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Modelers Lounge => Time to relax => Topic started by: Bolman on February 07, 2015, 02:13:41 AM

Title: Plexiglass
Post by: Bolman on February 07, 2015, 02:13:41 AM

For those out there with the experience, can plexiglass be push molded? I'm looking to make some form fitting covers.

Title: Re: Plexiglass
Post by: malaula on February 07, 2015, 03:57:57 AM

My grand-uncle had some patents on automobile accessories made of formed plexiglass,as far as I remember it needed high temperatures to be formable.I think it then was molded over iron stamps.These were called Aerorex-Windabweiser,a kind of additional wind-screen to put on the front side windows to prevent draft when driving your Mercedes with an open window .
That invention and others made him a millionaire back in the sixties....

Title: Re: Plexiglass
Post by: uncletony on February 07, 2015, 04:24:50 AM

years ago I fooled around with heat forming plexi for sculptural type stuff, it can be done...