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Anyone work with THICK plexi (I want to make a cab)
pinballwizard79:
Alright, I am tired of looking for a widebody WMS pinball cabinet for my 46" LCD pinball project. All I need is this damn cabinet & until I get one everything is @ a standstill.
So I think of making a LCD & PC based pinball machine in a clear plexi cabinet.
At least artwork wont be an issue ;D
Anyone have experience with plexi building?
billpa:
I used to build fish tanks out of plexi. It is not too hard to work with once you get the hang of it. Cuts need to be nice and straight and you will need to sand and polish them down a bit before you glue them. Weld On is what you want to use...there are various grades (denoted by a number). Some glues are more viscous than others. Of course you don't have to worry about holding water for an aquarium :D Thick plexi is pretty darn expensive though. Honestly I would just go with wood. If you are building a full size cab, you are going to have a lot of empty space in there...which kind of defeats the purpose of having the cab clear. I would want to see all the guts of a real cab like the photo you attached.
pinballwizard79:
thanks billpa, good info there for me to consider
Franco B:
I love working with acrylic and I'm trying to find more and more things to do with it :)
As billpa said it can get expensive with the thicker pieces.
It can be shaped and formed fairly easily but it can get a little tricky with the thicker gauges depending on the tooling you have. I have managed to work with acrylic up to 1" with just a jigsaw and a router though.
Weld-on #4 is commonly used in the US to bond extruded acrylic pieces together and I managed to find a similar solvent here in the UK called Extru-Fix.
This is a good video which shows Weld-on being used:
shateredsoul:
--- Quote from: billpa on April 17, 2010, 11:27:32 pm --- Some glues are more viscous than others. Of course you don't have to worry about holding water for an aquarium :D
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or you can have the first fishtank pinball! think about it! You can have a seperate compartment for the pc ...