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Old March 13th, 2013, 04:45 PM   #10
Kevin1956
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If you need plastic with bends in it, head for the auto wreckers. The body panel skins of Saturn cars are plastic, as are old Pontac Fieros and Aztec mini vans. They use the same type of plastic found in M/C fairings. You may find something very close in shape to what you need. To further bend (or straighten) the plastic, if the piece isn't too big, lay the piece flat in a large evenly heated cast iron frying pan at very very low heat. Cabinet shops have heat tables, maybe one can help you out. They use them to heat Formica and form it around the edges of counter tops, around columns etc, and are capable of holding very large pieces. I had a friend who worked in a cabinet/counter top shop. He helped a guy make a plexiglass windshield for an old boat. They took the old windshield, made a paper pattern and cut a new piece of flat plastic in the same shape. The plastic was placed on the heat table until it became pliable, and they hand formed it to fit in the windshield frame. It came out perfect.

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