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Plastic thickness for a windshield ?
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Plastic thickness for a windshield ?
I need to make a couple of windshields for a 51" Tiger Moth. What thickness of clear plastic sheet would be best for this?
Thanks
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mattp51- Moderate Poster
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Re: Plastic thickness for a windshield ?
Hi Matt, Not sure if this will help you.. but if I needed to make a windscreen, I'd look around my shop for something that's still packaged in that clear plastic packaging that you usually need to cut with scissors to open. Usually the "back-side" of the packaging is flat. Cut templates from cardstock first, to get the proper shape and fit.. then trace those pieces onto the clear-flat sheet and cut them out. The Tiger Moth's windscreens look to be a flat "3-piece" design that you can form by creasing the sheet using a thin rigid straight-edge.. like a steel ruler. Try a scrap piece beforehand to get the technique down.
This piece pictured is .5mil (.020") but you may want to go thinner than that.
You can form a radius if needed by laying your pieces over a curved heat-resistant item (a tin-can, glass bottle etc.) and gradually apply heat until the plastic droops around the form. You can do this with a heat-gun or in a conventional oven. The amount of heat depends on the type of plastic and the thickness.
This piece pictured is .5mil (.020") but you may want to go thinner than that.
You can form a radius if needed by laying your pieces over a curved heat-resistant item (a tin-can, glass bottle etc.) and gradually apply heat until the plastic droops around the form. You can do this with a heat-gun or in a conventional oven. The amount of heat depends on the type of plastic and the thickness.
Re: Plastic thickness for a windshield ?
Hi Matt,
0,5mm is indeed a good thickness.
I found the drawings on Outerzone of the 1/6 scale Stampe & Vertongen. The plan is in Italian but you can read on the 2nd drawing for the windscreen "acetato 0,5" which means clear plastic of 0,5 mm.
http://www.outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=4107
Lieven
0,5mm is indeed a good thickness.
I found the drawings on Outerzone of the 1/6 scale Stampe & Vertongen. The plan is in Italian but you can read on the 2nd drawing for the windscreen "acetato 0,5" which means clear plastic of 0,5 mm.
http://www.outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=4107
Lieven
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Re: Plastic thickness for a windshield ?
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXTLC2&P=7
Midwest Clear Sheet Polyester .020 (4)
Gentlemen....looks like I found some .020....thank you very much !
Matt
Midwest Clear Sheet Polyester .020 (4)
Gentlemen....looks like I found some .020....thank you very much !
Matt
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