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Drilling, Cutting, etc PlexiGlass
amerish:
leave the paper on the plexi. Then put the plexi over your drilled top of the control panel. Turn on a flashlight and put it into the panel and you will see ever hole lit. Drill into the hole with a plunger bit on the router then switch to a flush trim bit to clean out the hole.
Works perfectly every time I have done it.
Kajoq:
For cutting the plexi, making a sandwich with Wood | plexi | wood, and cutting slowly worked well for me.
Doing the holes, drill a small pilot hole first, A spade bit SHOULD work, but I used a holesaw bit and that worked perfect. The hole cutting went much more smoothly than straight line cutting
Malenko:
I drilled the holes for the screws that held the plexi to the panel, then I mounted the plexi to the control panel then used a dremel to slowly cut out the holes for the buttons. messy but its all the hardware i own :/
and it worked
knave:
When I drilled Acrylic I used a small pilot hole and then used a slow to medium speed to drill out the hole. I used a block of wood underneath. Worked great.