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Title: How to scribe curved plastic surfaces?
Post by: elysium64 on October 08, 2010, 06:30:00 PM

Hope you can help, i need to rescribe some Plastic doors on a smooth curved hard plastic surface...
What tools to use?
How to get a perfectly Straight line (can you buy steel flexible sticky tape?????)
any advice greatly appreciatted.
Thanks

Title: Re: How to scribe curved plastic surfaces?
Post by: Big Sexy on October 11, 2010, 07:47:14 AM

Scribe as in cut or just looking to pencil out a pattern or something?  I think I've seen a flexible edge before for like drafting and stuff but I don't think it would work to cut with. 

Title: Re: How to scribe curved plastic surfaces?
Post by: snitcythedog on March 11, 2011, 04:20:46 AM

Quote from: elysium64 on October 08, 2010, 06:30:00 PM

can you buy steel flexible sticky tape?????

You can use a contour gauge to help you mark it with a pencil or scribe.
(http://www.micromark.com/RS/SR/Product/84652_R.jpg)
http://www.micromark.com/8-Inch-Plastic-Contour-Gauge-with-Interlocking-Ends,9578.html (http://www.micromark.com/8-Inch-Plastic-Contour-Gauge-with-Interlocking-Ends,9578.html)
Hope that helps.
Snitchy sends.

Title: Re: How to scribe curved plastic surfaces?
Post by: OSHIROmodels on March 11, 2011, 07:01:32 AM

Any piccys of what you are scribing? A picture is worth a thousand words etc  :)

cheers

James

Title: Re: How to scribe curved plastic surfaces?
Post by: matakishi on March 11, 2011, 07:56:43 AM

You can use label maker tape as a guide, you know, the plastic stuff that you punch letters into, Dymo.

(http://www.fuzzimo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/fzm-Embossed-Plastic-Label-Letters-Numbers-01.jpg)