Full Version: Cutter for Plastic Power Tool Case
From: Michael [#1]
28 Mar 2006
To: ALL
OK, here's another one.
There are cutters for soft metals (brass, aluminum, etc) and cutters for flexible plastics. Whic one is best for the nonflexible plastics used for power tool (drill, sanders, etc) cases?
Thanks again! :D
EDITED: 28 Mar 2006 by DATAKES
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#2]
28 Mar 2006
To: Michael [#1] 28 Mar 2006
On acrylic I use the FLX bits. Just reserve them for acrylic once they are used for that, acrylic is fairly abrasive and wears them fast.
The softer the material, the sharper the bit needs to be.
From: Michael [#3]
28 Mar 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#2] 28 Mar 2006
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#4]
28 Mar 2006
To: Michael [#3] Unread
Luckily, or unluckily, I have never had the opportunity to do one. I would try a FLX bit at a shallow setting, then if the results were good go deeper. If the results were poor, I would try a BAL bit a little deeper and see how that went. I would then go with the best result to nearly the full depth if neither was perfect, and do a final pass .002 deeper . I probably would hold my breath if it did not look that good on the first test.
There have been posts about ABS plastic, but I do not remember the recommendations. Search will not find ABS unless you try 'ABS Plastic' and 'the exact phrase'. Then it will find it a 'ABS' and 'Plastic', but not as the exact phrase. It is a bug in the search feature that needs to be worked out. (We were thinking about updating the forum software, but the bugs in search are worse than now, so we are waiting.