8 Oct
2012
8 Oct
'12
4:11 p.m.
On Monday, October 8, 2012, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Cameron Kaiser
<spectre at floodgap.com>
wrote:
They now have a nice PVC heater/bender that I saw
reviewed in Make
Magazine recently. You stuff the PVC in a corrugated tube, plug it in
and wait for the plastic to become soft and nearly limp. I presume one
removes the hot PVC and bends it to shape before it cools (the review
didn't make it clear if you are meant to remove power, then bend, then
cool, then remove, or some other order of operations). I don't know if
they make a 2" version, but the smaller version seemed to be quite
handy for trivial shaping.
I've used a propane torch from a distance back in the day, but i believe a
heatgun would work as well