Studio Scale Long Range Shuttle Surak

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Getting caught up with posting my previous progress.

This is the line bender I'm using at the TechShop. It makes bending the acrylic a piece of cake.


And the adjustable fence for bending to the correct angle.


The main challenge with bending the 1/4" acrylic is that it tends to want to bend to a particular radius every time and not the right radius. The radius it wants to bend to is too small. On some 1/8" acrylic test pieces I realized that the outside radius of those bends is just about right for the inside radius on the 1/4" acrylic. So I made a form to bend over to force the 1/4" acrylic into the right shape. These photos show that process.