best way to cut plastic Options

[bloodrain]

well I need to cut some plastic, I want to test out something and write my name in cursive in the plastic. What would be the easiest way to give it a nice clean look. Oh, and the pastic is about as hard as the door stops on our car.

[devilsden97]

i was gonna say dremel tool....but the door stops are more rubbery then plastic.


if its hard/ridged, a dremel tool would work best.

if its rubbery...idk

[vsideboy]

You could try a knife attachment on a soldering iron?

How thick is the plastic mate?

Might be worth looking for a company that would laser cut it for you, then it would be a perfect finish.

[Cutrara]

Scroll Saw

[bloodrain]

the plastic is about 1/10th an inch think, the only reason I dont wanna use a dremel is because it will melt and cut the plastic and give an unsmooth finish. I was hopin there was a special knife or somethin used for cutting plastic.

[94wrc]

Maybe if you use some sort of scalpal (?SP?) or craft knife.

Nathan

[vsideboy]

You could use a dremmel to remove most of the material and then use your soldering iron knife to slightly melt the cut rough edge into a smooth edge if sanding is too difficult.

Not sure how you could do it, but a hot piece of wire might cut a nice edge? Maybe pass a current through a piece of fuse wire and see if it does anything? Thats only a maybe, don't go electrocuting yourself dude.

[vsideboy]

Maybe if you use some sort of scalpal (?SP?) or craft knife.

Nathan

Doubt that would work mate, it sounds about 2 - 3mm thick so it would be very difficult to cut with a knife, unless he can use a blowtorch or something to heat the blade?