routing corian
 

A friend has asked me to put a roundover on a piece of corian. Anything to
be aware of/concerned about?

Does it rout like wood? more abrasive?

Any help would be appreciated.

Joe

routing corian
 

You can route (in your case round over) DuPont's Corian with carbide tools.
"noonenparticular" wrote in message
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A friend has asked me to put a roundover on a piece of corian. Anything to
be aware of/concerned about?

Does it rout like wood? more abrasive?

Any help would be appreciated.

Joe

routing corian
 

In article ,
"noonenparticular" wrote:

A friend has asked me to put a roundover on a piece of corian. Anything to
be aware of/concerned about?

Does it rout like wood? more abrasive?

Yup. Slow down on the tip speed and feedrate if you can. Make sure
you're sharp. If it is real Corian/Wilsonart/Meganite/Staron, the
abrasiveness not that bad.
Some of the polyester look-alikes suck canal water.

Any help would be appreciated.

Joe

routing corian
 

No chip, waste is dust, ready to waste your face, eyes, & lungs.
Vaccuum collection at the cutter mandatory.
I would not climb cut this stuff, light cuts first to learn its routing
character.
More on routing anything: http://www.patwarner.com/
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noonenparticular wrote:
A friend has asked me to put a roundover on a piece of corian. Anything to
be aware of/concerned about?

Does it rout like wood? more abrasive?

Any help would be appreciated.

Joe

routing corian
 

It is much easier than you would think. I just routed a Tslot in corian;
piece of cake.

routing corian
 

noonenparticular wrote:
A friend has asked me to put a roundover on a piece of corian. Anything to
be aware of/concerned about?

Does it rout like wood? more abrasive?

Any help would be appreciated.

Joe

It creates a lot of static electricity on your tools. When I have
routed it, I had to keep my thumb anchored on a metal part of the
router to keep from getting shocked. It did the same thing to my PC
belt sander. It shocked the crap out of me for weeks. I finally took
it apart and blew all the dust out of it and then it was fine. Anyone
else ever experience this?

Bryan

routing corian
 

In article .com,
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No chip, waste is dust, ready to waste your face, eyes, & lungs.
Vaccuum collection at the cutter mandatory.

The acrylic versions of solid surface, such as Corian, Wilsonart,
Meganite and others flake off real nice when using a sharp bit. Nice
micro-thin wafers that float like snowflakes in the shape of the cutting
bit.
If and when you're getting a lot of dust, you're no longer cutting, but
grinding. Slow rotational speeds and slow feedrates will reduce the
'grinding' effects.
The dust? Well, I had it analysed on two occasions. Once by the labour
standards people, the second time by an outside lab at the request of a
client. It is considered 'nuisance dust' no different than going down a
country road in a convertible with my sweetie on a warm summer
day..yessir, picnic basket, soft music...bottle of wine...*slap*..

The formulation is methyl methacrylate and aluminum tri-hydrate...
dentists make capped teeth from that stuff. After it is manufactured,
the dust is inert and quite heavy. Within a cpl of minutes, the air is
clear.
I will always recommend wearing a mask, and I do, but there's no
'booga-booga' aspect to the dust whatsoever. Dust from many wood species
are way worse for your health than a totally inert substance like solid
surface dust....at least the acrylic types. (As opposed to the garbage
polyester ones)