On Nov 5, 9:20*am, "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:



Eric wrote:
Need to make some small cuts in 4mm acrylic plastic sheets that make
up two side of my shower enclosure. After the old shower tray leaked,
I bought a tray with four upstands and need to fit it in place so that
the acrylic sheets sit inside the upstands. Don’t want to take the
acrylic off the wall but it needs to be notched for the upstand. Also
a couple of other bits need to come off for the tray to fit. Total
length of all the cuts is about 15cm.

What might be the best way to cut the acrylic? I could spend £30 on a
Dremel tool but it sounds like overkill. A jigsaw will not work since
the wall is on the other side of the sheet. The score and break method
is not right for this job. Keep going round and round but coming back
to the Dremel. There must be an alternative….

No, I think a dremel - a damn good powerful one, is the way to go.

Simply not in the same league as a Fein - I've got both. Dremels are toys..

The beauty of the Fein is the saw blade reciprocates. A rotary one hand
held is *far* more difficult to control. So to cut a straight line
following a mark with the Fein requires little skill.

I idnt find any difficulty in controlling the die grinder cutting
acrylic. Not enough torque I guess. FWIW select max speed if its
variable, its the locally generated heat that does most of the
cutting.


NT