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Plastic forming and machining
« on: May 24, 2007, 12:49:03 am »
Where do I find someone who does that stuff...I want to make a bunch of custom parts for my cab and mabye to share with the community ;) but I can't find a desent one that will machine and polish poured acrylic.
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Re: Plastic forming and machining
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2007, 03:11:55 pm »
What I want to do is I have a friend that works some where were they make bocks of clear acrylic. I have these little figures of Mario and etc and he's going to pour the acrylic on them so the Mario stays in the middle. I want to find someone that can lathe them into joystick handles so i can have little Mario's and Luigi's in the handle. And if anyone else wants some I'm pretty sure we can work out a deal. 
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Re: Plastic forming and machining
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2007, 04:08:17 pm »
Refer to Fozzy's casting tron sticks thread.
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Re: Plastic forming and machining
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2007, 09:06:55 pm »
no experience but a suggestion,
is it worth trying to cast it as a ball and just polishing it as opposed to machining it from a square. must be possible to make a mold around a pool ball? or something similar.
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Re: Plastic forming and machining
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2007, 09:36:15 pm »
I'll ask tommorrow
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