Fusing Acrylic Sheets

To prepare the grocery bags for fusing you need to trim off the handles and trim off the seam at the bottom.

Fusing acrylic sheets.

To guard against cracking place the acrylic on a flat sheet of glass in a shop oven not the one in your kitchen at about 180ºf 82ºc for about 1 hour per mm thickness then let them air cool. When you are done smooth out the bag into a flat rectangle you can leave the side seams connected. Glue acrylic sheeting using cement solvent choose the best adhesive. This can be used to seal bags make them to the specific size of the object inside and create an.

When household gluing two objects or materials are joined together by simply applying a viscous adhesive or glue between the two surfaces. When applying cement solvent make sure that your acrylic sheets fit together without using. This will anneal the acrylic and relieve the built up stress. I show how to use a soldering iron to fuse plastic together.

Things you ll need 2 polycarbonate sheets methylene chloride or chloroform. Gluing acrylic sheets together is a much different process than household or traditional gluing.