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I need a small piece of 30# or 40# Precision Board. I don't want to purchase a whole sheet at this time so I was wondering if anyone has a cut off of at least 20" by 15" by 1.5" thick that I could purchase. Or if anyone knows of a supplier that will sell quarter sheets. I know Dan Sawatsky uses a lot of it but I was hoping for someone closer in the States for easier shipping.
I suppose another option would be any other plastic material in that thickness that would be durable as 30# Precision Board. I need to cut a cross out of it on the router and make pockets in the back of the cross to house LED's, so some areas of the cross wall will be as thin as a quarter inch. I'm thinking that 18# HDU will be a little too fragile when it gets that thin.
[ February 20, 2009, 01:34 PM: Message edited by: Dave Sherby ]
-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5397 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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This sound exactly like the big cross that hangs in the front of my church that has lights in the back. I don't believe that it was made with that heavy of signfoam.
Personally, I would take some aluminum or dibond, shape it into a U channel and then glue some 1" signfoam on. Ours has gouges in the signfoam to give it that wood effect.
[ February 21, 2009, 10:45 AM: Message edited by: Laura Butler ]
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Dave you can also just route out your back and Silicone/epoxy an Alum U Track into the back and if you want to get fancy you can route a small outer groove for the acrylic to set flush with the back of the cross attach the acrylic with flush mounted Machine screws into countersunk T nuts.
This was done with Cedar but the same idea.
[ February 22, 2009, 04:13 PM: Message edited by: William DeBekker ]
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