In his video we're going to make this disposable glove holder. This is made
from three mm thick green acrylic. So quite simply it holds a box full of
disposable gloves like that, you can pop that in there and then your gloves can be
dispensed very easily from there. That can be stuck onto any wall.
To change the box it's very easy you simply push up the hole in the center there pull the
box out and replace it with a new one.
To make one of these you're going to need a piece of perspex approx.
290 millimeters by 360 millimetres. As you can see I have marked this one out already.
So that is going to go on there, I am going to cut that piece out and that
piece out and then that piece will be bent up to stop that from falling
straight through. We also need to cut a hole in there and then all the rest of
it is simply using the line bending machine to bend it all. I'm actually going to put
a hole in the center of that and that will be so you can push the box
out using your finger.
Go through from the other side as well.
It's important when you do this to keep the material supported at all times. What
you don't want to do is go too fast and chip the acrylic.
You can actually see that the jigsaw has actually given us a very good quality
cut along there so it's somewhere near there so I can simply draw around
that. I'm now going to cut the centerpiece out to get that started I'm
going to drill a small hole using a step drill again that will enable me to get
the jigsaw in there to cut out this section. So I'm going to ensure that it
is supported and then I'm going to start off by drilling a hole.
When I do this I'm going to try and ensure that the workpiece is supported by
this piece of wood wherever I am cutting.
That is actually a very tight radius to cut so I will try and get it from the other
direction.
I am just going to have to swap over to a bit and a better blade. For cutting the radius out
it is a bit difficult with the normal blade so I'm going to switch over to
this Starlett blade which is a lot thinner. That should make it a lot easier
to cut the radius.
So there we go we've got the shape cut out of the center. We can now give that a quick file
to take off any of the rough edges
So that's the basic shape that we are left with. The next step is to remove the
masking and then do some bending.
You can see what a fantastic color that is the
beauty of perspex that it's guaranteed for 10 years and should never fade,
and it will never need painting.
So we now need to complete a series of bends. The first bend is going to be bending
that piece of 90 degrees this way. So I'm going to switch the power supply on and
that will heat up the nichrome wire.
We can now bend that.
So that's the first bend. I am now using the ruler and I'm just going to set up
the masking tape there, use that as a guide, that will show me where I need the
next bend.
So I can now switch the power supply back on. Turn that up to a high voltage.
I'm just going to use the square this time to ensure that we get a square bend.
We can now bend that up.
I want to get that somewhere near 90 degrees. So that's the next bend.
That's the second band.
So we now only have one more bend to make.
That's a worthwhile project it only takes a couple of hours to make one of
those, and they are very useful. To fix it in position it really can't be easier. I'm
just going to use some grab adhesive. So I'm just going to put a couple of blobs
on the back, and then I'm just going to push that into position.
Then I'll just allow that to dry before I place any gloves in there.
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