Re: Looking for Cast Acrylic Sheet Stock

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Original poster: "James by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davi6368-at-bellsouth-dot-net>

Hi everybody!

Thanks for the great info....McMaster  is a great source and does indeed 
have exactly what I need.  Need to make best trade off amongst 
machineability, strength, electrical characteristics, and 
lack-of-brittleness. I guess by buying a couple sheets of each of the 
material mentioned I can find which works best.

FYI, Grizzly makes a nice 1hp router and has bits for acrylic which work 
rather well in machine this kind of stock and  is petty nice if your 
workshop, like mine, is missing a machine shop!

Thanks

James

At 08:29 PM 3/12/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
>Hi James,
>
>www.mcmaster-dot-com
>
>Cast acrylic in sheets, rods, disks,...  Pre-shrunk or standard...
>
>If we go for a 12x12x1.25 sheet:
>
># 8560K731 will run you $33.75.  I sometimes get in three orders a week 
>from McMaster-Carr.  A great place to get "everything" really easy.  Their 
>website is super good at selecting what you need.  Highly recommended to 
>get really friendly with McMaster-Carr!!
>
>Goodness knows I have lately ;-)))
>
>My "only" whine is that they don't e-mail you the UPS shipper numbers 
>automatically.  But stuff always arrives exactly the day I expect, so no 
>big deal...  In general, their prices are perfectly fair.  The nice site 
>and always in stock are really what counts.
>
>Cheers,
>
>         Terry
>
>
>
>
>At 10:15 PM 3/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>Can anyone recommend a supplier for Cast Acrylic Sheet stock...I'm 
>>looking for sheets about 1 inch thick for machining  several parts for 
>>one of my coils.  It's very easy to find the thin stuff but I'm not 
>>finding anything this thick.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>James