Posted by Binkie on 07/05/09 - 4:55 PM
#1
Very simple material to work with. The first 3 pics are of the finished piece (it will keep water from spilling over the transom of my raceboat. I used .20 gauge Plexiglas.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/plexiglass/ 100_1066.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/plexiglass/ 100_1069.jpg
[url]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/plexiglass/ 100_1069.jpg[/url]
Becuase of the many angles I had to make a mold or a form to clamp the plexiglass into as I heated the bend points one at a time.
[url]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/plexiglass/ 100_1053.jpg[/url]
first I made a cardboard pattern, and then cut the plexiglass to the pattern
[url]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/plexiglass/ 100_1054.jpg[/url]
[url]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/plexiglass/ plexiglass-1.jpg[/url]
Then I finished the edges, first with a belt sander, then with an orbital sander, and then hand sanded with some
1000 grit so the edges becomes translucent. After this, I marked the bends on the glass with a marking pen, using the cardboard pattern, and simply laid the bend point over the edge of a board and heated it with a heat gun on high. You must move the gun rapidly back and forth, and on a small piece like this, the glass will fold over by itself in about 3-4 minutes. When the glass falls over it is very pliable for about 2 minutes, and I just clamped it into the mold and let it cool. If you are making a simple windshield with 90 degree bends, no mold is needed, just heat it in the same manner, and it will bend over, all by itself, don`t try forcing it. If you start with a level table to bend it It will fall to 90 degrees. After it falls over, lay a wet cloth over it so seal in the bend. It is very simple to do, and work with. Don`t overheat as tiny bubbles will form in the glass.
[url]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/plexiglass/ 100_1063.jpg[/url]
[url]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/plexiglass/ 100_1060.jpg[/url]
Posted by Joe Kriz on 07/05/09 - 5:05 PM
#3
Why not just put a link to the entire album?
I tried linking to your entire Plexiglass album on photo bucket but it comes up telling me that photobucket is doing some work right now.
That just shows you another reason why we highly discourage the use of anything to do with photobucket, imageshack or any other outside hosting service.
Here is the link I tried for you that gets the error...
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/floridaboy2053/
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c19...daboy2053/
Edited by Joe Kriz on 07/05/09 - 5:12 PM
Posted by Joe Kriz on 07/05/09 - 5:29 PM
#5
While we are on the subject, articles or projects like this that show links in the forums don't last long. Meaning, try and find something important that you want to know in the forum section....
Items in the forum area get lost amongst the rest of the 50.000 to 100.000 posts and are difficult to find unless you are lucky enough to know the name and can do a proper search for it. Even then you might not find what you are looking for.
Like CES mentions, the links below are the best places to create something important, that will stay here, for all members in the future to view. Photobucket and the rest of those hosting services may not be around next week. Yahoo and AOL photo hosting already closed their doors along with a few others in the past. We spent a lot of a time deleting all of the broken links from Yahoo and AOL on this site after they closed their doors. Broken links are not good and waste everyone's time trying to view something that is no longer there.
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Edited by Joe Kriz on 07/05/09 - 5:37 PM