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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 |
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routing corian
You can route (in your case round over) DuPont's Corian with carbide tools.
"noonenparticular" wrote in message . .. 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 |
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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? 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 |
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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/ ************************************************** *********************** 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 |
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It is much easier than you would think. I just routed a Tslot in corian;
piece of cake. |
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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 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 |
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