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Default Roughing Out Small Plexiglass Disks?

"Dave, I can't do that" wrote in news:5d40b33a-
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On Apr 7, 7:16*pm, Doug White wrote:
I need to make some clear front sight apertures for my target rifle. *

Any other tricks or suggestions?


Hi Doug,

What material?

How thick?

Tolerance on diameter?

How many?

I have a 35 Watt CO2 laser I built that could cut the disks perfectly.
You would have to then machine the inner hole. You could also ask at a
local engraving shop that has a laser.

Email me if you like.


It's acrylic, rougly 0.10" thick. The tolerances on the final diameter
are pretty tight, but slightly oversized blanks with a small center hole
would save a lot of work. I assume the laser cuts cleanly enough that
there wouldn't be optical distortion in the plastic after the fact?

Doug White