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Offline elysium64

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How to scribe curved plastic surfaces?
« on: 08 October 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

Offline Big Sexy

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Re: How to scribe curved plastic surfaces?
« Reply #1 on: 11 October 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. 

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Re: How to scribe curved plastic surfaces?
« Reply #2 on: 11 March 2011, 04:20:46 AM »
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/8-Inch-Plastic-Contour-Gauge-with-Interlocking-Ends,9578.html
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Re: How to scribe curved plastic surfaces?
« Reply #3 on: 11 March 2011, 07:01:32 AM »
Any piccys of what you are scribing? A picture is worth a thousand words etc  :)

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Re: How to scribe curved plastic surfaces?
« Reply #4 on: 11 March 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.



 

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