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[mopar796]

HOW DO YOU BEND  STYRENE

 

[russosborne]

To bend styrene you generally need to heat it at the place you want to bend. Problem is to not overheat it. It can be bent cold, but it either snaps back (loses the new shape) when you let go of it, or it literally snaps (breaks).

There should be some discussion on this somewhere around here. I seem to recall some people heating it in hot water, and others carefully using a flame. Styrene will burn and melt, so practice is the key. As well as using caution so you don't burn yourself. Because you can burn and melt as well.

Hopefully someone will chime in who has done more of this.

Russ

Oh.

You might want to consider posting the question in the "Model Building Questions and Answers "

part of the forum.

Russ

[blackbeard]

I use pure tap hot water to bend my plastic rods