"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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On 15/02/2013 01:36, Arfa Daily wrote:
Anyone had any experience of the stuff ? I have a need to make three
small mirrors - about credit card size - and two of them are not square.
3mm acrylic mirror material is available dirt cheap on Fleabay, and is
reckoned to be at least as good as glass. Question is, how do you cut
the stuff reasonably neatly ? I've cut other acrylics before and always
found them to be a nightmare at clogging any cutting tools. I was
thinking maybe something like a Dremel with a general purpose cutting
wheel ? They market this material as 'shatterproof', so that's good when
it comes to cutting it, right ... ? I wonder if that also means that it
would score and snap ?

Main problem in use is that the surface is soft and scratches easily so
you will forever be repolishing it.

To cut it clamp between two pieces of wood faced with paper to support it
and make the cutting strokes slow and towards the silvered face. If you
work it hard the material will melt and clog the saw. It melts very
easily.

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Regards,
Martin Brown


Thanks for that. Seems a good suggestion

Arfa