On Friday, February 15, 2013 9:35:45 AM UTC, Arfa Daily wrote:
"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

Where I work we use a laser cutter for 5mm or less, it's very good, but also expensive so not much use to you unless you're likely to want to cut a lot of stuff with it, it's good for plywood and MDF too. We even use it for engraving on wood and acylic.