by Capebuild » Sun May 09, 2021 6:11 pm
I'm probably a little late to reply to your post. I've got a curved window planned for my build. I searched far and wide for sourcing a glass window that had a slight curve to it in the X-Axis. Tough to come by. I then researched using polycarbonate. I've settle on using this for my build. There are a number of polycarbonates available (eg. Lexan, TUFFAK AR polycarbonate sheet, etc )..... The Tuffak provides good UV protection, one or both sides available with a scratch protective coating, and has the capability to be either cold bent or thermo bent. You have a choice of trying to cold bend it or heating it and bending it (draping it) over a form. I'm going to try and cold bending .177 inch thick Tuffak AR. As a back up, there is a company near me that does powder coating using large ovens. I would need to build a form for the PC to be draped over. Cold bending seems like less work if it, indeed, does work using that method.
Hope this info helps is able to help you...at least point you in a direction.
John
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