Acrylic Case Questions

MoldyBread · Post by **MoldyBread** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:13 pm

I thought that the prices on the Acrylic Cubes Cases were outragous, so Im thinking about jsut building one myself

, so Im wondering, what is a really good glue that can hold these walls together? Im not so sure silicone will hold, seeing what it did to my windows lol!

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:24 am

your going to be needing a high quality epoxy, that dry's clear.

but I would just buy the case, Acrylic is not as easy to work with as you think nor is it cheap, the last time I checked the cost of 3/16 inch thick 2ft x 2ft acrylic was about $85us. was going to make a R/C truck chassis out of it.

If you do it invest in a good set of drill bits, have good a fine tooth blade for your bandsaw and get a bunch of wet/dry sand paper 1000-3000 grits. to wet sand the cut edges, start at the 1k and worj up to the 3k.

I have been told you can heat polish the cut sides with a porpane torch, basicly melting the saw cuts, but not sure how this will affect the plastic. may cause it to fog or bubble if your not carfull.

MoldyBread · Post by **MoldyBread** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 10:03 am

well maybe i could just go with some Plexi Glass

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:44 am

same steps for working plexi, have fun in your building.

remember messure twice, cut once.

MoldyBread · Post by **MoldyBread** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:30 pm

lol yeah, thanks again

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:49 pm

Look in your local yellow pages for plastics manufacturing. Its been a while but I used to work at a plastics shop and the glue we used was a solvent that melts the plax and bonds it in a clear bond...no actual glue used at all. If you find a small shop they will cut and plane the pieces for you and all you do is assemble. They would probably even give you a little of the "glue" to do it with.