Thread: How to: Build a heater strip to bend acrylic for 30 bucks or less!

Originally Posted by crazeuk

Hi guys.
Just come across this.

Sorry to say this again..can anyone post the pics to this?
I really want to make one asap got some water projects with acrylic lol.

i second this! if anyone has the pics, but don't want to host them, i wouldn't mind throwing them up on my photobucket--i don't delete much, and don't add much, so they would likely be there for a while.

I read this in a Make Magazine article. You can try seaching their site to see if it's archived. I read it from the magazine (more like a book if you've ever read one) and not from the website, though.

Here is a really hookie homemade one froma hair dryer but looks like it works:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQGoKUVfe6g&NR=1[/media]

Here is a homemade oneusing a commercially available heating coil (cost aprox $70) for heat strip:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkjsPrWT0Ic[/media]