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Tim Taylor 11th July 2011 02:01 PM

Clear Flyscreen
 
I am looking for a clear Flyscreen similar to this:



Thanks to Dunk3 for the pic

vmax1974 11th July 2011 04:04 PM

If I remember from my school days you can manipulate perspex just with a little heat from a heat gun so you could make one quite easy

michael92 11th July 2011 05:51 PM

a halogen heater on its back will be good to bend acrylic, i remember too using a line bender to do that job! but there well in excess of a 100 spondoolies!!

just be carefull! :)

vmax1974 11th July 2011 05:59 PM

Then file and polish the edges and your done ...... Oh no just realised I did learn something at school lol

monsterob 11th July 2011 09:25 PM

you can also finish the edges with a blow torch if your quick the trick is go fast enough not to warp but slow enough to melt and soften the edges

like doing a creme brulee best to practice tho !

you can improvise to make a line bender bit of copper pipe and a blow torch ?
:D

Tim Taylor 11th July 2011 09:49 PM

I can say that a torch was a bit too much. There were bubbles at the bend. no amount of sanding or polishing would get rid of them (That was a waste of an hour or two).

This is Lexan so it would bend with a brake if I had one. I might give it another try.

monsterob 12th July 2011 10:03 PM

i hope you used a test piece ? not a waste of time experimentation is never wasted time. you now know how not to, but has it shed any light on possibly how might to ? :D

Davidbolam 12th July 2011 10:12 PM

The screen looks very similar to ones produced by MAC#1 sportscars

Tim Taylor 14th July 2011 02:25 AM

That is a Mac Flyscreen but they don't make them for the Haynes.

Unfortunately the piece I used was supposed to be the final piece. At least I have a template fpor the next one.

robo 15th July 2011 12:24 AM

I watched a guy heat forming some lexan screens and he pre heated the plastic in an oven then layed it on a shaped wooden plug. The stuff sort of glooped into shape and was allowed to cool. Then trimmed and polished it, these were only small so i dont know how you would get enough heat into a piece that big without a huge oven. Dont think you would get away with a heatgun.

bob


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