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finding_self
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#4283932 - 06/11/05 03:50 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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failing
Edited by finding_self (04/18/06 08:22 PM)
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Wojo
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: finding_self]
#4283954 - 06/11/05 03:59 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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I use a table saw. I guess it would be feasable to use a hacksaw. If i were you though i would just use the razor. But this time use an edge to cut against. And just be careful, you dont have to score it too deap for it to crack, just have to give it a path to crack along. Then just snap it..
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scrname
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: Wojo]
#4284035 - 06/11/05 04:42 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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i just brought it to my schools wood shop and cut it with a table saw.
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HippieChick
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: scrname]
#4284070 - 06/11/05 05:03 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Dremel with router attachment and hole cutter,
Peace,Love,Happiness and Harmony. Hippie Chick
-------------------- Peace,Love and Happiness HC Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.............. I LUV My Greenhouse http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/5545848#5545848 My First Pans http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6212058#6212058
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Roadkill
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: HippieChick]
#4284079 - 06/11/05 05:08 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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chicks that use powertools are so hot!~
lolzz
much sisi
have a day!~
-------------------- Laterz, Road Who the hell you callin crazy? You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating froot loops on your front porch! Brainiac said: PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.
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Quiescence
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: finding_self]
#4284095 - 06/11/05 05:19 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Rather than making a plexiglass window to let light in. I put my light in the chamber. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=108219&CatId=0
You can just add some tape to make sure they stay. I tried cutting a hole and decided it was too much trouble. So I just used those.
Good luck ~Quiescence~
-------------------- God raised up the fellow who was relaxed in the company of tax collectors, prostitutes and other outsiders, and went on to say that many of them would be welcomed to God?s banquet table long before those self-righteous people on display at church.
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HippieChick
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: Roadkill]
#4284102 - 06/11/05 05:21 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks, but I wouldn't consider that much of a power tool. Now, my vibrator on the other hand,lol.
You get your package yet?
Have a great one yourself.
Sisi
-------------------- Peace,Love and Happiness HC Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.............. I LUV My Greenhouse http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/5545848#5545848 My First Pans http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6212058#6212058
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IGnosticAbhorI
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: HippieChick]
#4284120 - 06/11/05 05:26 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
HippieChick said: Thanks, but I wouldn't consider that much of a power tool. Now, my vibrator on the other hand,lol.
You get your package yet?
Have a great one yourself.
Sisi
I'd have to agree with RK on that one
-Gnostic
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Roadkill
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: HippieChick]
#4284141 - 06/11/05 05:35 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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HippieChick said: Thanks, but I wouldn't consider that much of a power tool. Now, my vibrator on the other hand,lol.
You get your package yet?
Have a great one yourself.
Sisi
lmfaoooo
your funny sis!~
nope...not yet. probably Monday.
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I cut my plexi glass with a table saw.
I tape the plexi glass along the cut line...with masking tape.
the tape will make a cleaner cut.
-------------------- Laterz, Road Who the hell you callin crazy? You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating froot loops on your front porch! Brainiac said: PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.
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HippieChick
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: Roadkill]
#4284240 - 06/11/05 06:05 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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I hope you don't mind, but I gave one of the prints you sent me away in a contest. It was so much fun! Wouldn't have trusted giving one I made, even if I had one, away,lol.
Am gonna start making some on that "special" card stock I was telling you about. I'll make sure you get the first complete set,LMAO.
How do you cut your holes?
Peace,Love,Happiness and Harmony. Sisi
-------------------- Peace,Love and Happiness HC Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.............. I LUV My Greenhouse http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/5545848#5545848 My First Pans http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6212058#6212058
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Roadkill
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: HippieChick]
#4284271 - 06/11/05 06:14 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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which print did you give away?
when I made my glove box...I drilled out a circle pattern with a sharp drill bit in a high speed drill...in a tight pattern. popped out the plexi glass circle. then lapped out the cutout with a burr grinder...to fit to size. the arm holes were perfectly tight and round...I still have a good eye!~
years of working on boiler tubes helped!~
-------------------- Laterz, Road Who the hell you callin crazy? You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating froot loops on your front porch! Brainiac said: PM the names with on there names, that means they have mushrooms for sale.
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oysterguy63
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: HippieChick]
#4284274 - 06/11/05 06:14 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
HippieChick said: Thanks, but I wouldn't consider that much of a power tool. Now, my vibrator on the other hand,lol.
You get your package yet?
Have a great one yourself.
Sisi
Your posts test the mettle of a 41 year old heart milady!! Keep "up" the good work.
-------------------- Oysters...yuummmmm
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HippieChick
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: Roadkill]
#4284309 - 06/11/05 06:22 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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That dremel has a hole cutter that is awesome, made a temple on a scrap piece of wood, perfect snug fits every time, no lapping, save that for the old penis. Envy that is,lmao.
Wasn't any that were under glass. I'll probably never use those, too pretty. Then I probably woundn't use any that are "autographed". Too much sentimental value, so, maybe you could send some more,LMAO.
Keeper. Clutch won and I let him have his pick.
Peace,Love,Happiness and Harmony. Sisi
-------------------- Peace,Love and Happiness HC Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.............. I LUV My Greenhouse http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/5545848#5545848 My First Pans http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6212058#6212058
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HippieChick
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: oysterguy63]
#4284313 - 06/11/05 06:23 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks. They damn near kill my 45 year old Hubby,lol.
Peace,Love,Happiness and Harmony. Hippie Chick
-------------------- Peace,Love and Happiness HC Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.............. I LUV My Greenhouse http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/5545848#5545848 My First Pans http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6212058#6212058
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bwalker
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Loc: NJ, USA
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: finding_self]
#4285433 - 06/12/05 01:13 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah i tried a razor knife, almost sliced my finger... Well i was think hack saw with the small teeth but I'm not sure if it would be worth purchasing without being for sure. Is it even cutable or will it crack? Crack is bad.
Trace the shape you want on the acrylic with a marker and then take a scoring knife to it. You'll find it at any hardware store for $5-7. It's angled so that you have better control over cutting. Take it easy the first pass so that you don't screw up. The next few passes, the blade with catch the groove and you can put some weight into it. I usually do 4-5 passes and then place the acrylic sheet on the edge of a table and punch it with enough force to break it clean along the groove.
Much cleaner/quicker than a hacksaw.
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lepiota
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: bwalker]
#4285842 - 06/12/05 05:03 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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hippie chick:
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hawksapprentice
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: finding_self]
#4285905 - 06/12/05 07:17 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Okay, back to the origional question. I have never needed anything more the my pocket knife and a ledge to cut/break plexi glass. I make score along where i want the plexi glass to break. Then place it on the edge of my front deck, you could use a desk, counter, any type of hard surface with a drop of about a half a foot or so. Place the plexi glass so that the scoring is lined up with the edge, then apply pressure. Voila, cut plexi glass. Also if you purchase it at home depot they can cut it for you there witha nifty saw.
-------------------- "I celebrate the Earth, my home, my mother, my grave, and as long as men are Man they must, if they would preserve the integrated being, do the same---[and preserve]--this rank casual hungry smelly sweaty lusting transitory body, my oozy pulpy liquid-bag-swollen body, bones, blood, hair glands, my bejeweled sex; I love and celebrate it all. never to let men forget that they are animals as much as gods---that is one thing I shall say." Edward Abbey
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Wojo
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hawksapprentice said: Okay, back to the origional question. I have never needed anything more the my pocket knife and a ledge to cut/break plexi glass. I make score along where i want the plexi glass to break. Then place it on the edge of my front deck, you could use a desk, counter, any type of hard surface with a drop of about a half a foot or so. Place the plexi glass so that the scoring is lined up with the edge, then apply pressure. Voila, cut plexi glass. Also if you purchase it at home depot they can cut it for you there witha nifty saw.
Thats exactly how plexi glass is saposed to be cut.. Just score and crack. I just like using power tools, and table saw's are waaay faster..
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Hotnuts
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Re: how do you cut your plexiglass... [Re: Wojo]
#4286655 - 06/12/05 12:10 PM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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You can put a regular plywood skill saw blade on backwards. That will cut it easy and clean. They also make steel cutting blades that work great also. Put some masking tape strips on the saw plate to prevent the plate from scratching up the material too much.
Edited by hotnutz (06/12/05 12:14 PM)
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