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radish1us · 05-01-2008

Why buy that snot "chemiwood", when you can get the creamiest product of all time, ACRYLIC.

Yep, this stuff is the bees knees for machining, you can turn it, mill it, drill it, grind it, file it, sand it, buzz plane it, band-saw it, use a hack saw on it, whatever way you want to work it, you can.
You can even bend it or form it with heat, yeh, it even melts and then reforms as a solid.
NO DUST either, just a bit of a pleasant smell, been using it for 15 yrs. and no ill affects, haven't seen any bad reports about it at all.
Stable, hard, take a coat of paint, yep, you can even polish it, so it looks like glass. Makes marvelous looking spot lights, you can even fit a globe in the back of the lens and it looks like a miniature real one.
I have personally made a number of wheel rims ( 30 ) for a 1/16th scale model truck, these rims were for the low loader and dolly tyres to fit, plus spare tyres as well. Measurements were about 25mm O/D X 24mm I/D x 15mm wide, that's right 0.5mm walls on the wheel rims and you could not crush them with your finger and thumb wrapped around them.
You can use this stuff to make anything your heart so desires, once it's painted who knows what it's made from.
Check out this site and go have a look at the first album, ALL the clearish bits are acrylic, could have made all the other bits from acrylic as well, only I had the polystyrene handy so I used that. You can see the low-loader wheels as well in the next album.

http://community.webshots.com/user/radish1us

Go get some and try it, you'll be grabbing for it quite often when you have to make something out of the ordinary.
Think of working with aluminium, that's how this stuff feels like, only it's a bit easier to work.
Same rules apply to Acrylic as to working with polystyrene with machinery, easy RPMS and quick feed to keep the tip cool, hot tip equals gunk up, stop work and clear, then away you go again.

regards radish

snot "chemiwood"--- a CNC machining centre at work had that crap on the table making vacuum moulds, that snot dust got all thru the workshop and 3 yrs. later we're still cleaning it up.

05-01-2008	#10 (permalink)
radish1us Scale Model Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia Real Name: Graham My Models: scale model horse drawn vehicles Visit radish1us's Gallery Posts: 25	Why buy that snot "chemiwood", when you can get the creamiest product of all time, ACRYLIC. Yep, this stuff is the bees knees for machining, you can turn it, mill it, drill it, grind it, file it, sand it, buzz plane it, band-saw it, use a hack saw on it, whatever way you want to work it, you can. You can even bend it or form it with heat, yeh, it even melts and then reforms as a solid. NO DUST either, just a bit of a pleasant smell, been using it for 15 yrs. and no ill affects, haven't seen any bad reports about it at all. Stable, hard, take a coat of paint, yep, you can even polish it, so it looks like glass. Makes marvelous looking spot lights, you can even fit a globe in the back of the lens and it looks like a miniature real one. I have personally made a number of wheel rims ( 30 ) for a 1/16th scale model truck, these rims were for the low loader and dolly tyres to fit, plus spare tyres as well. Measurements were about 25mm O/D X 24mm I/D x 15mm wide, that's right 0.5mm walls on the wheel rims and you could not crush them with your finger and thumb wrapped around them. You can use this stuff to make anything your heart so desires, once it's painted who knows what it's made from. Check out this site and go have a look at the first album, ALL the clearish bits are acrylic, could have made all the other bits from acrylic as well, only I had the polystyrene handy so I used that. You can see the low-loader wheels as well in the next album. http://community.webshots.com/user/radish1us Go get some and try it, you'll be grabbing for it quite often when you have to make something out of the ordinary. Think of working with aluminium, that's how this stuff feels like, only it's a bit easier to work. Same rules apply to Acrylic as to working with polystyrene with machinery, easy RPMS and quick feed to keep the tip cool, hot tip equals gunk up, stop work and clear, then away you go again. regards radish snot "chemiwood"--- a CNC machining centre at work had that crap on the table making vacuum moulds, that snot dust got all thru the workshop and 3 yrs. later we're still cleaning it up. Last edited by radish1us; 05-01-2008 at 10:49.