Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Woodworking => Topic started by: epetti on April 28, 2013, 12:56:28 pm
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I ordered a marquee from Game on Grafix sandwiched between two sheets of plexiglass. The one sheet ended up being about 1/8" longer than the other, and while the shorter one is a perfect fit, the longer one is 1/8" too long to fit. What's the best way to trim off such a small amount? Saw, file, sand? Any risk of cracking it? Any help appreciated before I try something random and break it.
Thanks.
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I'd use a table saw if you have one, and I'd put that one you cut on the back side.
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Most woodworking tools can be used on plexiglas. I used a plane in a similar situation. Course grade sandpaper will work too. Be careful to hold/clamp it firmly, close to the edge you're working on
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Went with a much more primitive solution -- scored it with an exacto knife a few times and then snapped off the edge with pliers. Worked great.
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Went with a much more primitive solution -- scored it with an exacto knife a few times and then snapped off the edge with pliers. Worked great.
I would have just flushed it with the router and flush cut bit. You would have had a virtually 100% copy, but you sorted it all the same.. :applaud:
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Went with a much more primitive solution -- scored it with an exacto knife a few times and then snapped off the edge with pliers. Worked great.
This is pretty much the defacto way of doing it and it works quite well. Router/table saw work well too but the scoring process is always money if you have the time and patients.