Hood Scoop

[PeteLeathersac]

I remember an article in one of those late 50's pocket size Hot-Rod mags where they were making a small bubble canopy for a Bonneville type car..
They made a wooden buck w/ the desired shape, put the material on top and slipped the whole thing into the local Pizza place oven and heated it just enough to take on the shape..
It worked beautifully and was crystal clear!.


~ Pete

[ORIGLS6]

OK, I checked the latest catalog and the heat strip is no longer listed. However, they do say that Acrylic sheeting can be bent and formed by heating it to 250-300°.

What's the output temp of a hair dryer/heat gun? Maybe check it with an oven thermometer. Could be you have what you need at home???????

[Kim_Howie]

I think I'm going to set it on a small metal pipe and heat it with a plumber propane tank. Thanks guys

[ORIGLS6]

Try a scrap piece first.............and go sloooooooow.

If you try to heat it too quick or too hot it will bubble and blister.

[budnate]

Kim, its touch and go from solid to bending...if you are on it with the torch the air movement from the tip will distort the material when it gets loose to bend and harden that way, find your vynal graphic guy and borrow his heat gun, they get smoking hot with not much air flow..or drive over and use mine

cant find my buddy to get the gas mix that is the trick.


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[Kim_Howie]

I have plenty of scrape!!!

[Kim_Howie]

I think my wife has a hair blower that's gas powered. I think it has a one horse motor on it!! I do have a good heat gun I'll try it first. Thanks of the help!! Kim

[camarojoe]

Nice scoop, but it's obviously not made of the correct shade of clear.

j/k...Looks awesome so far...

[budnate]

ok Kim, I caught up with him, the trick is to use Hydrogen & Oxygen to heat acrylic, as it does no throw soot and load the material with crud, use a rosebud tip and your going to need to rig up some kind of jig to hold your bend, as Acrylic has a memory and will try to go back to its original shape when it cools.

he also warned like I said there is a fine line of getting it loose to work with and over heating, if you over heat it, it will make tiny bubbles in the material where you were working and they will not flow out with more heat, the piece is junk at that point unless you can live with the bubbles.

get to work!

[Dog427435]

Wow - That is a lot of work - takes skill and some finess -

Now I know why I saw a lot of square boxes back in the day!
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