This will help you grasp the process to avoid making fatal mistakes on the main job.
Acrylic sheet hole saw.
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Clamp the plexiglass sheet to the work surface for stability.
Use a 7 1 4 plastic cutting saw blade to cut acrylic with a circular saw.
Here s what i ve learned about cutting acrylic with a hole saw.
Place a barrier below the plexiglass sheet.
Follow these instructions to cut a circle in a sheet of plexiglass.
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Almost any shape from its liquid state but it is most often encountered for project use in 1 16 inch to 3 4 inch thick sheets.
Use acrylic jigsaw blades to cut acrylic with a jigsaw.
Use a plastic laminate scorer to cut acrylic by hand.
That said below is a list of steps on how to drill a hole in your plexiglass sheet.
Materials needed to cut acrylic or plexiglass sheets.
Use the saw at a slower speed or keep the material cool by spraying water over the cut point during the saw operation.
It is very important to push the circular saw feeding rate within a slow and smooth motion.
This video shows how to easily cut acrylic sheet such as perspex lucite plexiglas optix oroglas acrylite sumipex cryolite etc.
Thick plexiglass sheets are inch and above.
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It s not as easy as i thought it would be.
Acrylic sheets can be machined with most shop tools.
Use a 10 plastic cutting saw blade to cut acrylic on a miter saw or table saw.
Unlike drilling a hole through metal or wood plexiglass sheets call for extra caution.
Use a glass cutter or the dull side of a utility knife to score the plexiglass along the mark line 5 to 10 times.