Buying a heat gun

[minkster]

I'm going to be attempting to make a vacuum formed case, and for melting the plastic I think you need a heat gun. I found this one at homedepot. Its a little bit pricy, but does anyone recommend any other good ones? Thanks-minkster

[Triton]

woudnt work, heatguns are good for melting small stuff but you will need a much larger area and better heat distrobution, an electric gridle thing will work better

[marshallh]

For my table, I just build a picture-frame sandwich and bolt the plastic sheet in between. Then I put it in the oven and it sags slightly.

[Weebl]

For my table, I just build a picture-frame sandwich and bolt the plastic sheet in between. Then I put it in the oven and it sags slightly.

Like This? Seems like a good option to me, simple but they seemed to have produced a fairly good product using just an oven.

[minkster]

For my table, I just build a picture-frame sandwich and bolt the plastic sheet in between. Then I put it in the oven and it sags slightly.

I was thinking of doing this, but then what would be a sufficient temperature to set the oven at?

Oh yeah, and I've looked at the studio creations website. In the pictures it looked like the guy was using the heat gun to heat up everything from the oven. I guess this is why I thought you could use one for vacuum forming. My guess is probably using the heat gun to even out the plastic if it was unevenly melted.

[G-force]

Try 350 degrees farenheit with a scrap piece. That's what you cook most stuff at, so it's a good guess...
Whenever I needed to make something small out of plexiglass and needed it bent, I would just hold it over the flame on my gas stove. It wouldn't work for anyhting big though.

[Turbo Tax 1.0]

it would probably help i use a blow torch in mine to keep it warm after i poull the plastic out the oven and it is bit extreme