Instructions for Use 3 mm - Varicor

3. GENERAL PROCESSING GUIDELINES
3.12 BENDING
• Heat up hot plates to 100 °C.
• Check the edges of the Varicor ® 3 mm strips to be bent for jaggings,
damage, remove when required.
• Warm up Varicor ® 3 mm.
• Heating time: 4 min.
Please carefully observe the heating times:
Heating times that differ from the above mentioned (too short
or too long) can lead to cracks or break of the material during
the bending process.
• Lay the warmed up Varicor ® 3 mm strips around the bending form,
do not bend it abruptly.
• Allow the strips to cool off in the form, do not cool suddenly.
• The Varicor ® 3 mm strips must be able to slide in the form due to
its longitudinal deformation behaviour, this means do not clamp
them fixedly (Fig. 22)
• The bent part springs back again by approx. 5% after it is taken out
of the form. Make the bending form narrower by this measure.
Material thickness 3 mm
Heating time 4 min.
Decors:
Bright plain colours
Limits to inner bending radius
in hot bending at 100°C
Bright fine and dark granulated
colours
20 - 30 mm
50 - 60 mm
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