Material such as plexiglass is widespread and used in many fields.
human activity. It is used in the roof glazing of modern greenhouses; the material is also in great demand in industrial and household glazing, different kinds protective fencing is also made using this durable material, and production is also not complete without durable acrylic.
In stores you can find a huge selection of plexiglass products, these are:
- bathroom accessories;
- shower cabins;
- kitchen aprons;
- all kinds of shelves;
- advertising posters;
- boxes;
- awnings, canopies;
- dishes;
- stained glass windows and various other elements.
Products made from this durable material are in demand. transparent material in offices, advertising, trade, these are price tag holders, stands for various products, menu holders, stands for business cards, stands for Cell phones, holders for jewelry and cosmetic products.
It is convenient to make products from acrylic and plexiglass, because processing the material is quite simple, there is no need to use special tools. It is thanks to these characteristics that plexiglass is actively used in the manufacture of various decorative elements, both on a production scale and with your own hands.
DIY acrylic products
If you wish, you can make a plexiglass product at home yourself, without special equipment. Making such an item will require you to have this very acrylic; you may also need a cutter or jigsaw for cutting; for gluing, prepare a special glue based on acrylic shavings. If you are not going to work with a new element of plexiglass, then you may need to perform a polishing or grinding step in order to remove any existing damage or scratches from the surface of the material.
Plexiglas phone stand
A product such as a phone stand can be made at home. You can come up with a non-standard design, for example, by adding a round or other geometric element. Below we will consider what is required to make such a stand and directly describe the manufacturing process.
You will need:
- wire, it should be nichrome, 0.5-1mm thick, length within 30-50cm;
- 12V power supply;
- a flat board, a furniture board will do;
- plexiglass.
The peculiarity of the chosen material is that products from plexiglass and acrylic can be made with a smooth bend. In order to make a homemade cutter, you need to secure the prepared wire along the even end of the board. On the one hand, you can hook it onto a self-tapping screw, on the other hand, it is worth providing a “tensioner”, this is necessary in order to eliminate the possibility of the wire sagging when it is heated. You can use a spring available on the farm as a “tensioner”.
When the thread is secured, connect it to a power source, it is better if it has the ability to adjust the power. At this stage, you already have a product ready for bending plexiglass.
Now you need to prepare the workpiece of the desired size. Treat its ends with sandpaper, this will be the first stage. In order to get a really neat edge, use GOI paste and a soft piece of fabric at the final stage of processing. After processing the ends, your workpiece should have neat edges, without grooves or hooks.
Next, you need to carefully bend the future stand. It is necessary to place the part on the edge of the bending board, the bend line should be located directly above the tensioned wire. Turn on the heating element and wait about five minutes. When the workpiece is warmed up, start bending.
Important!!! You need to bend the workpiece in reverse side from the heater.
When performing each new fold, give the workpiece time to cool, so to speak, fix the action. As a result of these simple manipulations, you can make your own acrylic phone holder with your own design.
The video course describes in detail how to make transparent plexiglass stands for booklets, jewelry, cosmetics, Cell Phones, wallets, shoes and other products made of plexiglass (acrylic). And also transparent holders for price tags - price tag holders. You will learn what tools (with a minimum price) and materials are needed for this, where to get them and how to process them.
“How to make money on plexiglass products”
The video course describes in detail how to make transparent plexiglass stands for booklets, jewelry, cosmetics, cell phones, wallets, shoes and other plexiglass (acrylic) products. And also transparent holders for price tags - price tag holders.
You will learn what tools (with a minimum price) and materials are needed for this, where to get them and how to process them.
What can be made from plexiglass?
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Here are approximate calculations of the cost of products and the price for the customer:
- 1 sq.m. PVC transparent 0.8 mm costs 163 rubles.
- 1 sq.m. Plexiglas 1.5 mm. costs 378 rub.
- Price holder 3 cm by 5 cm.
- The total area of the material is 0.003 square meters. Cost 0.57 rub.
- Price for the client 5-6 rubles:
- Stand for a wallet (or other product).
- The total area of the material is 0.023 square meters. Cost price 8.7 rub. Price: 52 rub.
- Mobile phone stand.
- The total area of the material is 0.015 square meters. Cost price 5.7 rub. Price: 33 rub.
Prices for materials and prices for finished goods may vary depending on where you live. But still, you saw that you can make money by making such products. Moreover, such products are ordered in tens, hundreds, and sometimes thousands.
You can make these products yourself:
What's inside the course?
You will see a menu:
And 12 video lessons lasting 1 hour 10 minutes:
Lesson 1. Materials and tools:
Lesson 2. Where to get materials:
Lesson 3. How to correctly mark up and calculate materials:
Lesson 4. How to properly cut plastics at home:
Lesson 5. How to make a device for bending plastics:
Lesson 6. How to bend plastics correctly:
Lesson 7. Selecting a transformer:
Lesson 8. Making a price tag holder (price tag):
Lesson 9. Making stands for wallets:
Lesson 10. We draw blanks and models in CorelDraw:
Lesson 11. Making beautiful numbers, tokens, tags:
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Lesson 12. Making interior mirrors from plastic:
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Crafts made from plexiglass are becoming more and more popular. This beautiful and pliable material is suitable for making figurines, photo frames and other interesting and beautiful things. In this material we will tell you how to make a price tag holder and a phone stand from plexiglass.
Advantages and disadvantages
Plexiglas has become a popular material for crafts due to the following qualities:
- ease;
- durability;
- UV resistance;
- impact resistance;
- pliability to many types of processing and decoration.
The disadvantages of this material include flammability and poor scratch resistance.
Video “Making a ring from plexiglass”
From this video you will learn how to make a ring from plexiglass with your own hands.
Classification
There are several types of plexiglass.
- Transparent. Colorless smooth sheets transmitting up to 95% of light. Suitable for etching and engraving. A frame or carved figurine made of this material looks great with an LED garland attached around the perimeter.
- Colored. The material has a uniform color and transmits 20–75% of light, depending on the thickness of the sheet and the saturation of the shade. Such plexiglass can be relatively transparent or matte, softly scattering light. It makes spectacular stained glass windows and lamps. Sheets that transmit minimal light are especially good for night lights.
- Corrugated. On one side of the sheet there is a convex pattern. This plexiglass can be either transparent or colored. It is rarely used for crafts.
General instructions
Now let's look at how to make simple but very useful things from plexiglass: a price tag holder and a phone stand.
Preparing tools
To work with plexiglass you will need the following tools:
- ruler;
- knife, a circular saw or jigsaw;
- weight;
- inclined stop;
- thermal cutter
You can make the cutter yourself. For this you will need:
- nitrochrome wire 0.5–1 mm thick and 30–50 cm long;
- frame;
- 12V power supply.
Thanks to a special knife for plexiglass, you can easily cut necessary details from of this material
The wire is fixed to the frame and connected to a power source. This device is needed to bend plexiglass.
Draw exact diagrams of the workpieces in advance: an error of 1 cm can make the item unusable. Both structures have vertical parts, so the base must be secure so that they do not fall.
Making a holder for price tags
There are several types of price tag holders. For example, consider the manufacture of a tabletop. It has the following shape: an inclined vertical part extends from the base with a tight clip at the top, thanks to which the price sheet does not fall out. For such a product you will need a transparent sheet 1.5–3 mm thick.
The work is carried out like this:
Making a phone stand
As an example, consider creating a stand with a base, a vertical part, a bottom stop and side holders. All these parts can be rectangular or artistic.
Money earned by one’s own labor always evokes a feeling of pride (the result was a product that was useful to people) and joy (the plan came true, we managed to please both ourselves and our family with the long-awaited profit). There are many options for earning money. There are things that are always in demand because they are necessary in Everyday life. These are precisely the hot commodity. Why not try to make it work production of plexiglass products? They can truly captivate with their charming appearance and will sell easily.
What can be made from plexiglass?
Cute stands for plates, aquariums for fish for private customers, strict price holders, transparent or original colored trays, on which goods in store windows or jewelry, perfumes, accessories and shoes look so advantageous - for stores. This is what you need to focus on when setting up production.
For industrial enterprises and small companies, order in documents is a sure guarantee of clear work. If they are stored in beautiful transparent folders plexiglass, and even made in different colors to make them easier to find, such products will enjoy continued popularity in this direction.
Numbers, tags, lottery machines and plexiglass tokens V in public places(theaters, restaurants, entertainment venues) create the image of the organization, because they start not only with hangers, but also with numbers. Many self-respecting shops and enterprises will be happy to purchase different needs necessary little things. Plexiglas- this is, in essence, hard material, which was created based on polymers. It is obtained using the most complex method chemical reactions from acrylic acid. That's where the name came from. In other words, the material is called plexiglass. The prefix “org” in the word “plexiglass” means organic origin, since the production of the material is entirely based on the reactions of organic chemistry.
Plexiglas is very unpretentious. It is easy to process: saw, cut, plane and sharpen, creating the required form. Devices and tools with which products appear under with skillful hands masters, are the most familiar: cutters, drills, cutters, chisels, blowtorch, circular saw, lathe and milling machines. Even gluing individual parts is not difficult, and the seams are almost invisible. Working with the material is a pleasure: it softens easily when heated, it is easy to process both on machines and manually, and with many metalworking tools.
Several types of plexiglass production
- Molding. It is a combination of methyl methacrylate and other substances that are poured into a mold made of silicate glass. The result is excellent plexiglass. It is durable, and thanks to the production method (casting) it can withstand sufficient load. The material lends itself well to processing, molding, and polishing without sufficient effort.
- extrusion is a slightly different method for producing plexiglass. Polymethyl methacrylate, which is in granules, is heated in an extrusion machine and extruded onto special devices.
Many people master this type of craftsmanship, since plexiglass is an environmentally friendly material and has high light permeability. No matter how much time passes, this quality remains unchanged. The same applies to colored products. Plexiglas is lightweight and weighs less than regular glass, so you don’t have to spend money on supports during assembly.
Another excellent quality is the fact that the material is not afraid of moisture and various microorganisms, so it is installed in shop windows, on water transport, on protective devices as glazing, and for small fish it serves as an aquarium. Glass resists frost and has electrical insulating properties. It is not affected chemical substances, and breaking it is very problematic.
When there is a transparent sheet on the table with absolutely smooth surface and beautiful shine, many ideas are born in the designer’s head. Frosted plexiglass Available in white and colored. The first has excellent light-scattering properties, and the second is a uniformly colored sheet that is used to create teaching aids and advertising, on catwalks, and also as suspended ceilings.
White corrugated plexiglass has a convex surface in the form of drops, waves and honeycombs on one side. At the same time, the other side remains perfectly flat. This type is used mainly to create original interior: various interior partitions, doors, as furniture parts and in shower stalls.
You can create a lot of amazing things from plexiglass by setting up your own business. Of course, you will have to find worthy partners, skilled people, and purchase equipment, but all costs will pay off over time.
