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Hi, I'm getting ready to route some 3/4 inch plasticore material. If anyone is using this stuff, what type, brand of bit are you using? Where do you buy them? What's the best spindle speed and travel speed for this material? Thanks!!
-------------------- Tim Whitcher Adrian, MI Posts: 1546 | From: Adrian, MI | Registered: Mar 1999
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I use an Onsrud cutter 63-725. it is a 1/4" single edge upcut spiral. I buy from a place in Baltimore, MD but there is probably a distributer closer to you. Check www.onsrud.com As far as speeds I use about 70 ipm for a feed rate and a spindle speed of 19000 rpm. Perfect edges every time. by the way I cut 3/4" in 1 pass no problems.
-------------------- TJ Duvall Diamond State Graphics, Inc.
New Castle, DE 19720 Posts: 396 | From: New Castle,Delaware | Registered: Jul 2002
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Just did a search and Plasticor is like coroplast a corrugated plastic material. So nevermind my previous reply. I was thinking it was like Colorcore or a polycarve material.
-------------------- TJ Duvall Diamond State Graphics, Inc.
New Castle, DE 19720 Posts: 396 | From: New Castle,Delaware | Registered: Jul 2002
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Tim, the problem I have with fluted plastic is, the top and bottom edges cut clean but the flutes do not. I was not interested enough to do any experimentation. If you only have to do one sheet, you can clean it up with a razor knife or scissors. Seems to me that a straight cut bit in regular (not climb mill) mode might take a better whack at the flutes than a spiral upcut which I was using. If I had to guess, I would say that faster feed rate is better. I think I used 200 ipm.
If you come up with a good solution please let us know. Vic G
-------------------- Victor Georgiou Danville, CA , USA Posts: 1746 | From: Danville, CA , USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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As fate would have it, the rep for a local distributor came in today with samples of Polycarve. We did 1/8" cleanouts at 200 ipm, 18,000 rpm and got good results, and cut the full 1/2" at 150 ipm which turned out to be a bit too fast.
Now that I've seen the material up close, I would like to hear what kind of signs you folks are making with the material. It looks like a nice product. Vic G
This is a sign that was done with black/white/black polycarve. The yellow is PVC material attached from the back. the material cuts very nice, just make sure you have a dust collection system or else it makes a big mess when it is cut. By the way I don't take credit for the way the sign is mounted. The customer did that themselves.
-------------------- TJ Duvall Diamond State Graphics, Inc.
New Castle, DE 19720 Posts: 396 | From: New Castle,Delaware | Registered: Jul 2002
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That's nice TJ. Did you have to screw into the PVC from the back? That would be fine for things where you won't really see the backside of the signs.
Has anyone figured out anything to adhere other materials to this stuff without using screws?
-------------------- Amy Brown Life Skills 101 Private Address Posts: 3502 | From: Lake Helen, FL, USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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Nice work TJ & Bob. Have you tried paints on the Polycarve or Colorcore? If so, what works? TJ, I'm also curious as to how you attached the yellow pvc material.
-------------------- Tom Bahr Custom Signs of St. Cloud, Inc. St. Cloud, MN 320-255-0588 tbahr@astound.net Posts: 71 | From: St. Cloud, MN | Registered: Apr 2002
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-------------------- Tom Bahr Custom Signs of St. Cloud, Inc. St. Cloud, MN 320-255-0588 tbahr@astound.net Posts: 71 | From: St. Cloud, MN | Registered: Apr 2002
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That means my first post is usefull. Those are the setting I use for polycarve.
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