Re: Perfecting my final design...

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Original poster: robert heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

PE is easy to drill ,tap, and route. It welds poorly and will not glue.
Acrylic is easy to glue. Use fine teeth and feed slowly. Soap and water
makes a good coolant. Dont let your tool get hot or you will melt your
sawdust into glue lumps,
   Robert    H
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> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:07:40 -0600
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> Subject: Re: Perfecting my final design...
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> Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:09:13 -0600 (MDT)
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> Original poster: Just Justin <rocketfuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> I'm worried working with the acrylic: I don't have special bits to drill
>> with it or saw it so I hope when drilling it won't crack and its only 1/4"
>> thick. To hold the copper tubing in I'm using PE cutting board strips. How
>> can I bolt the PE down? I'm guessing just extand 1/8" nylon bolts on the
>> strips.
>
>
> A couple of tips I've collected that are useful for working with acrylic 
are:
>
> -Pilot holes!  Use them when drilling larger holes.  Also if you plan to
> cut acrylic, you can drill many small holes along the cut path so that 
if the
> acrylic cracks, it's more likely to crack towards the next hole.
>
> -Go slow!  Cracks happen when you try to go too fast..be patient.
>
> -Make sure your saw has many small teeth and is rotating or reciprocating
> very quickly (I've had good luck in using a high-rpm dremyl type tool with
> a cutting wheel).
>
>
> Justin
>
>