Re: Looking for Cast Acrylic Sheet Stock

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>

James,

As I said before, acrylic is a nasty beast.  I'd think a few more times
before buying that acrylic an attempt to use a router on it.  There are
plenty of other materials out there
that machine much better than acrylic.  Acrylic has a very low melting
point.  Simply using a standard drill press (which cannot go slow enough) to
drill acrylic will result in a
hole that basically remelts itself together.  Unless you have much
experience with this stuff, stay away!  Don't say I didn't warn you.

The Captain





 > 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