Retired physics teacher here, and this is an outstanding little device! Perfect for building my squirrel feeders and keep the birds out at the same time! Great job lad.
this is pretty cool! one thing I'd add is a protractor though, hot glued or something on the side, with a screw or nail to show at what angle you've bent.
Fantastic, going to make me one, thinking off incorperating the power supply into the unit, also add in a bend stop so you can set the angle you want to stop at, your an inspiration
I use a 24 volt transformer with a light dimmer on the input side of the transformer to regulate the temperature of the nichrome for a hot wire cutter, I'm sure this would work for this application as well. The light dimmer is the type used in place of a wall switch and is made for incandescent lights, they may be harder to find since everything is going LED these days but worth looking into. I'm using a 500VA buck-boost transformer which is overkill but I've seen where other's have used a common door bell transformer.
Thank you for the Vid! I have now built a similar machine but minus the extra baseboard, I just used a 3" ply strip and 4 small ply squares, 2 on each side. I also bought the recommended springs but found them way overpowered and strong, so I used a much softer spring from an Aldi box of assorted springs and it works fine, thank you again :)
I just stumbled across your video while looking up acrylic bender, and I really like your design a lot. You mentioned looking up Bit-tech's TH-cam channel, saying it wasn't going to be small for very long, but he hasn't uploaded anything for 9 months. He's not going to grow without uploading.
Thank You bro,, i amazed your vedeo tutorial here,, i got a New knowledge In You! for how to bend The doors acrylic bender im whatching in Philippines! 😁
I just got a Cricut Maker about a month ago and it's been so friggin awesome!!! Def makes my Mods easier and look so much more professional for mods for my channel!!! We're saving up for a house, we anticipate closing around this time next year, but I can not wait till we do. I'm going to build a giant shed sectioned off into 3 sections. My Studio/Editing Workstation - Work Area for all my Tools/An Area to paint - and an area for other stuff like lawn mowers and general storage. I can not wait!!!! Dude when are you going to start posting videos again??? We miss you man!!!! You've been such a huuuge inspiration to me for modding and starting a channel!!
Been looking for a power supply like that for ages. Nobody, including Google, seemed to know what I was talking about. I thought those things stopped being made. Thanks. Liked your video. Bender is a bit crude. But, what the heck, it gets the job done. Bottom line.
Hi ! This is the most explanatory video I saw describing an inexpensive Acrylic Bender jig, and I thank you for it. I was looking several Acrylic bending tools on Amazon and they are all well overpriced for what they do. I then decided to surf on TH-cam and .. Voilà! One tip, however, that can dimiduish this wire bender's cost a lot. You don't need a regulated DC Supply. In fact, you don't need DC at all. You could use a cheap transformer with the appropriate ratings, of course. Hope this helps. Thanks again for this video and good luck for the rest. Have a nice day!
@@Dancopymus Hi, Dan. This circuit does not require specific AC or DC voltage. However, I used a 12V DC @ 5A adaptor I took from Amazon. I then experimented on the amount of NiChrome wire to use, until it became a nice red color. Mind you, too red is like not enough. Id needs not to be too hot, otherwise it’ll melt the surface as the center of the sheet would be still « cold ».
@@Dancopymus hi again! Of course .. as long as it can supply the necessary current to make the wire glow red. Check before, or do like I did, experiment 😂
Great video! Your wire won’t short out if it touches the U channel, unless the U channel is touching something that is grounded. I’m making a bender now based on your video. Thank you!
@@Hyperlooper It's 12Vdc. You'd have as much of a chance at getting a zippity zappity from this power supply as you would touching the positive and negative terminals on a car battey. Your internal resistance is too high. AC on the otherhand is a different story.
Another awesome tutorial 😁 try not to use the screw to adjust the wire height eventually it snaps the wire...best to just adjust height straight from the screw that the spring hooks too
Have you ever worked. On a Copper, & or Stainless Steal water 💦 Cooling PC. I’m interested in this. Looking to build a Black, & Copper water cooling gaming rig. Love your channel. I always learn something new.
Are you an engineer? This is awesome. Maybe pre-drilling would have prevented the mess around the screw heads when screwing in? This is simply awesome.
Regarding your power supply. The display seams to be indicating that it was in constant voltage mode and so producing 10V because the green LED was lit. The red constant current LED was not lit and so the display was not limited to the current setting. The current through the wire must be less than 10 Amps. The wire has 0.635 Ohms/ft Resistance and assuming you had about 2 feet of wire the resistance would be about 1.2 ohms. On 10V that would be a current of about 8.3 amps. So that is reconcilable with the 10Am current limit not lighting.
Hi mate, really cool idea. The only trouble I will have is powering it I’m not a great sparky. Could you assist me in the sense if telling me or sugesr to me easy to get common way to power it like a battery or some sort of charger? It’s really is fantastic. I need it to bend acrylic for my aquarium overflow boxes. Regards Duzzy from 🇦🇺
Great video thank you. I'm thinking about making a heater bar for edgebanding wood to speed up the glue drying process. Your methods might work for what I'm doing. A commercial heating bar is about $1,000.
Pretty good, i already have a power supply, and some hinges, just need some wire, and i am all good to go, a spring i will have that laying around somewhere to. Im rewiring my electric kiln to, so i will have some Kanthal wire laying around once i have got it rewired. Or maybe i will get some dedicated wire, so i dont have to get the Kanthal already. How much watt did you use for the wire? I will use the Plexiglas to make a portable book scanner (with 2 cameras in it) so i can digitalize books in the library and at home. I will convert those pictures into a pdf file, and i will make the pdf file searchable with OCR function. It comes in handy, when you read some part of a book, and need to find the part again to make homework etc. etc. Greetings, Jeff
Thanks for the shout out! Loved the video, really handy tutorial, especially given how overpriced acrylic bending wires tend to be.
I love your videos bro like Dietec...
bit-tech Fair Play Alex, hope you are well. Much love Rich Scooby Thailand. Great vid Dietec as just making one myself.
Retired physics teacher here, and this is an outstanding little device! Perfect for building my squirrel feeders and keep the birds out at the same time! Great job lad.
Very helpful.
For others watching, suggest you pre-drill holes if you use MDP as it can split if your screws are close to the edge to the board.
this is pretty cool! one thing I'd add is a protractor though, hot glued or something on the side, with a screw or nail to show at what angle you've bent.
"When it is bendable - just bend it" Wiser words have never been uttered
outstanding work. no extra yakking. just the facts and tips presented clearly and completely. ty
A nice simple but very helpful tool for modders. A perfect tutorial
Simple, clear, easy instructions, with links to all the needed stuff. Awesome! Well done!
Cool! Nifty & Nice. Commercial benders are pricey. I'm gonna give this a shot. Thanks for the D.I.Y. Tute. Well executed.
Fantastic, going to make me one, thinking off incorperating the power supply into the unit, also add in a bend stop so you can set the angle you want to stop at, your an inspiration
Just make a fixture to clamp the bent plastic at the angle you want until it cools
Thank you for this video.. I'm DEFINITELY making myself a bender in the near future.
I didn't know I needed this until today.... Thank you
YES! Thank You! I was searching just for something like this to make some cool panels for my Yamaha xsr 700!
and for my Yamaha psr e373!
I use a 24 volt transformer with a light dimmer on the input side of the transformer to regulate the temperature of the nichrome for a hot wire cutter, I'm sure this would work for this application as well. The light dimmer is the type used in place of a wall switch and is made for incandescent lights, they may be harder to find since everything is going LED these days but worth looking into. I'm using a 500VA buck-boost transformer which is overkill but I've seen where other's have used a common door bell transformer.
I like the light dimmer idea. I was thinking of using an old laptop power supply. I should have something about right in my hord of old parts.
This may be a cheaper solution
It could be a shower dimmer.
Thank you for the Vid! I have now built a similar machine but minus the extra baseboard, I just used a 3" ply strip and 4 small ply squares, 2 on each side. I also bought the recommended springs but found them way overpowered and strong, so I used a much softer spring from an Aldi box of assorted springs and it works fine, thank you again :)
much tx. been looking all over for a decent perspex diy bender
This is cool stuff. This is a better way of bending acrylic than what I do. thanks for sharing
finally a bender maked by a PC Modder. cool.
I just stumbled across your video while looking up acrylic bender, and I really like your design a lot. You mentioned looking up Bit-tech's TH-cam channel, saying it wasn't going to be small for very long, but he hasn't uploaded anything for 9 months. He's not going to grow without uploading.
Very Nice Set-Up and Easy To Make.
Excellent video with useful information and very well explanation . Sir , thank you so much for sharing your knowledge . Greetings from Sri Lanka .
Thank You bro,, i amazed your vedeo tutorial here,, i got a New knowledge In You! for how to bend The doors acrylic bender im whatching in Philippines! 😁
Thank you for a fantastic tutorial video.
Great video. Thanks for sharing 👍
I just got a Cricut Maker about a month ago and it's been so friggin awesome!!! Def makes my Mods easier and look so much more professional for mods for my channel!!! We're saving up for a house, we anticipate closing around this time next year, but I can not wait till we do. I'm going to build a giant shed sectioned off into 3 sections. My Studio/Editing Workstation - Work Area for all my Tools/An Area to paint - and an area for other stuff like lawn mowers and general storage. I can not wait!!!! Dude when are you going to start posting videos again??? We miss you man!!!! You've been such a huuuge inspiration to me for modding and starting a channel!!
pretty cool build, definitely worth it if you work a lot with acrylic, I guess I stick to a heat gun tho for the 2 bends I wanna make..
Thanks for this! Takes the fear out of it for me!👍
nice DIY tools .. thanks for your sharing
Been looking for a power supply like that for ages. Nobody, including Google, seemed to know what I was talking about. I thought those things stopped being made. Thanks.
Liked your video. Bender is a bit crude. But, what the heck, it gets the job done. Bottom line.
I myself use a car/mc battery charger at minimium current setting (3 amps/12 volts) meaning about 80watts on the nichrome wire. Works great.
Hi !
This is the most explanatory video I saw describing an inexpensive Acrylic Bender jig, and I thank you for it.
I was looking several Acrylic bending tools on Amazon and they are all well overpriced for what they do. I then decided to surf on TH-cam and .. Voilà!
One tip, however, that can dimiduish this wire bender's cost a lot. You don't need a regulated DC Supply. In fact, you don't need DC at all. You could use a cheap transformer with the appropriate ratings, of course.
Hope this helps. Thanks again for this video and good luck for the rest. Have a nice day!
Can yo9u send me a link to what you are referring too? I am not a techie.
Hello, do you mean a "raw" transformer, I mean, without rectifying? How many volts and amperage? Thanks
@@Dancopymus Hi, Dan.
This circuit does not require specific AC or DC voltage. However, I used a 12V DC @ 5A adaptor I took from Amazon. I then experimented on the amount of NiChrome wire to use, until it became a nice red color. Mind you, too red is like not enough. Id needs not to be too hot, otherwise it’ll melt the surface as the center of the sheet would be still « cold ».
@@daniellachance8778 Hi my namesake, thank you very much. So can I use a PC Power Supply?
@@Dancopymus hi again!
Of course .. as long as it can supply the necessary current to make the wire glow red. Check before, or do like I did, experiment 😂
I wish I knew this decades ago 😂👍👍
Great tutorial! Built mine a few days ago, but I finaly got my power supply delivered today. I'm thinking about making a psu shroud, wish me luck! :D
Cool build 👍🏻 I’m going to build one soon. Thanks for the video.
Thank you so much for this!
Is the voltage AC or DC? What thickness of Nichrome wire do you use - .032, .036, .040? Thanks. .032 Nichrome is no longer available on Amazon. FYI.
Nice video. Straight forward and simple. Thanks.
Great video! Your wire won’t short out if it touches the U channel, unless the U channel is touching something that is grounded. I’m making a bender now based on your video. Thank you!
The channel could become energized though, and if you happen to brush up against it and provide a less resistive path to ground...... zippity zappity
@@Hyperlooper It's 12Vdc. You'd have as much of a chance at getting a zippity zappity from this power supply as you would touching the positive and negative terminals on a car battey. Your internal resistance is too high. AC on the otherhand is a different story.
nice, now it only needs two ceramic spacers put below the hinges and an angle indicator on one side :)
Awesomeness hands down.
Ты молодец! Продолжай и дальше нас радовать своим видео! Спасибо!
My new favorite DIY video
That was brilliant. Thank you for doing this.
Nice, simple and practical
How kewl is this !
Probably wouldn’t hurt to keep a co2 extinguisher handy (NOT water, lol)
Thanks for sharing your hobby
Great video thanks. Iam going to try and make one also
Fantastic build, and quality music. Thank you good sir!
Brilliant video, going to make my own 1:8 scale display cases as they are expensive.
Thanks...Straight to the point.
I am gonna build this for in my workshop! Thanks for the tutorial!
beautiful work
Where are your 2019 videos you are a Great Modder that was a Brilliant Tutorial Thanks!!
One just went up :P
Great video! I'm going to make one!
Another awesome tutorial 😁 try not to use the screw to adjust the wire height eventually it snaps the wire...best to just adjust height straight from the screw that the spring hooks too
Have you ever worked. On a Copper, & or Stainless Steal water 💦 Cooling PC. I’m interested in this. Looking to build a Black, & Copper water cooling gaming rig. Love your channel. I always learn something new.
Thank you for this video... this is a task I will complete to make some prototype projects!! Thank you 😊
wow so simple and effective
Excellent! Can a 12V and 12A computer power supply be used? Congratulations and thank you!
looks like can use cheap computer power supply :) .. cool tips. nice!
Are you an engineer? This is awesome. Maybe pre-drilling would have prevented the mess around the screw heads when screwing in? This is simply awesome.
Great video! Can this DIY bender be used for ABS plastic as well?
Thanks, building one this weekend
Regarding your power supply. The display seams to be indicating that it was in constant voltage mode and so producing 10V because the green LED was lit. The red constant current LED was not lit and so the display was not limited to the current setting. The current through the wire must be less than 10 Amps.
The wire has 0.635 Ohms/ft Resistance and assuming you had about 2 feet of wire the resistance would be about 1.2 ohms. On 10V that would be a current of about 8.3 amps. So that is reconcilable with the 10Am current limit not lighting.
Great video! You are really making it look easy. I hope you will upload more vids soon.
VERY EASY & GOOD JOB
Thank you! This is super helpful!
Take a 4x4 gang box and install a receptacle and dimmer switch to use as a rheostat to set the heat to what you want.
Great video! Very useful info! Thanks much!
up to what thickness of acrylic does this work on? Thanks!
Can't wait for you to mod something with this bender
Great Project. Thanks. Also Subscribed to your Channel.
thank you so much EMINEM for tutorial.
Now I just need to find something to use this knowledge for!
You've a buncha really resourceful tricks, thanks for sharing this'll help alot.
Dude. That is awesome. Def gonna make me one of these.
Thank you. Very informative
Just what i was searching for! Great idea & great video. Thx a lot!
Thank you for this video. Now I can start bending. :)
Building one of this is definitely in my next to do list!! Thanks for sharing!
awesome video - learnt alot, thanks
Thanks a lot for this video. i wonder if it can bend ceiling pvc panels?
Hi mate, really cool idea. The only trouble I will have is powering it I’m not a great sparky. Could you assist me in the sense if telling me or sugesr to me easy to get common way to power it like a battery or some sort of charger? It’s really is fantastic. I need it to bend acrylic for my aquarium overflow boxes.
Regards Duzzy from 🇦🇺
thanks alot this is really nice. can you tell till what thickness this can work will it work for 8mm thick cast acrylic
It can work any thickness depending on nichrome-wire current.
Ok, that's freakin' slick!
Thank you. Very Helpful.
You are brilliant!
Great video! Is it okay to use a power source with : 180 watt, 12 V and 15 amps? It`s too "heavy" for the wire?
Well done. I assume this can be used for other plastics as well, such as HDPE?
that is sooo cool idea. do you think it's possible to heat it with a heat gun?
Great video thank you. I'm thinking about making a heater bar for edgebanding wood to speed up the glue drying process. Your methods might work for what I'm doing. A commercial heating bar is about $1,000.
Awesome video dude, absolutely love all the DIY tutorials you do!
WOW! Take my like, kind sir.
This looks really useful! Much more elegant than heat gun ;)
Thank you. What a great idea!
Pretty good, i already have a power supply, and some hinges, just need some wire, and i am all good to go, a spring i will have that laying around somewhere to.
Im rewiring my electric kiln to, so i will have some Kanthal wire laying around once i have got it rewired. Or maybe i will get some dedicated wire, so i dont have to get the Kanthal already.
How much watt did you use for the wire?
I will use the Plexiglas to make a portable book scanner (with 2 cameras in it) so i can digitalize books in the library and at home. I will convert those pictures into a pdf file, and i will make the pdf file searchable with OCR function. It comes in handy, when you read some part of a book, and need to find the part again to make homework etc. etc.
Greetings,
Jeff
this is cool.. nice video
This is pretty ingenious. Thanks!
wow, what was that song clip? That was aweseome!
Nice build
Great job and video too. Thanks for sharing!