{"id":1913,"date":"2014-07-20T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2014-07-20T16:21:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T23:21:46","slug":"bending-acrylic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"Bending Acrylic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a large 2000VA UPS here under my desk for some time, and it uses an external battery pack. The problem is, some time ago I lost the top half of the battery pack, so the batteries and the wiring was exposed.<\/p>\n

I leaned a sheet of acrylic against it to prevent feet\/dogs\/falling objects from getting into the batteries, but I had always intended to construct some sort of real cover. I was fiddling around with the pack a couple days ago, and realized that if I could bend the sheet of acrylic I had stuck there temporarily, with two right angles, it could make a nice little cover.<\/p>\n

A quick youtube search later, and I had a plan for bending the sheet.<\/p>\n

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I used this board as both a support, as well as the form, as it was the same width as I wanted the top\/middle section to be.<\/p>\n

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After gently heating along the bend to be made, I bent down one side of the acrylic at about a 90 degree angle.<\/p>\n

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Then I bent the other side, and cooled the piece down with some water from the garden hose.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, the first bend I heated a bit too quickly, causing some sections to bubble and look less than pretty.<\/p>\n

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But I had much better success with the second section, by heating it more slowly, the bend didn’t bubble and came out clear.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0846\"<\/a>And finally, the cover is in place over the partially disassembled battery pack!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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