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Main => Woodworking => Topic started by: Mugzilla on May 23, 2008, 09:02:41 pm

Title: Working with LEXAN,...
Post by: Mugzilla on May 23, 2008, 09:02:41 pm

I just wanted to share something.  My CP has lexan on the surface.  Over the last 4 years, the lexan has "grown".  It is expanding outwards, and it it "bowing" upwards. 

I used a hand planer on the edge of the lexan.  I set the depth of the blade very shallow.  IT WORKED GREAT!  The planer would take off a little sliver the whole length of the lexan edge.  No cracks/spidering/etc.

(http://i32.tinypic.com/14tlyxs.jpg)

Additional pics of the CP can be found on this thread.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=80426.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=80426.0)
(Yes, I was very successful with the planer.  However, I bungled the artwork!)

Title: Re: Working with LEXAN,...
Post by: teetu on May 25, 2008, 01:11:43 am

I had no idea that lexan expanded/contracted.  Is your CP exposed to sunlight  or something?

Good to know the planer works- I'll try and remember that if the same happens to me down the road.