How to cut
100 Acrylic Sheet
How to cut plexiglass/acrylic fast and easy with an oscillating tool (multi-tool)
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today we've shown you how to cut a piece
of Plexiglas easily using this tool it's
an oscillating tool and previously I
made am home-baked Plexiglas cutting
tool and it looks great
but if you don't have this and then you
have an oscillating tool around you can
cut Plexiglas or so very easily
especially if you have a piece of
Plexiglas that's very thin like this one
here this one here is only about one and
half millimeter thick so it's very thin
and I've tried to use other methods like
scoring with a knife and then try to
bend it and try to break it
unfortunately it's not always as plain
and as you can see here it doesn't
always break straight as you playing
sometimes when you score it you have it
just a little bit of imperfection you
can cause it to break it's a cracking
straight who bent and then become very
weird shape and you're gonna damage your
cut I also tried it put a jigsaw to cut
my flaming plaque see here and because
it's thin it flux very easily so when
the blades moved up and down it flexes
the Plexiglas and then eventually it
will just crack if you have a thicker
Plexiglas like this one here this one is
about seven millimeter thick it's a lot
thicker so it's not as flexible it's
very stiff so it doesn't Bend and flex
when you're trying to use a jigsaw to
cut it when the blade moves up and down
like this it's stiff so it doesn't man
so you can cut it very easily unlike a
painting Plexiglas like this one it's
gonna be really challenging cutting with
a jigsaw and most of time I end up
damaged my plastic glass now you have a
tool
like an oscillating tool with a blade
like this you allow you to cut the
Plexiglas and very easily so let's get
to it
so next I'm gonna cut a straight line to
my proxy class here the way I do it is
I'm gonna make a deep groove and cut it
on one side and don't cut it all the way
to-- let's just make a deep cut and then
flip over and cut on the other side and
complete the cut on the other side I
found that when cutting plastic glass
instead of producing dust like when
you're cutting wood or metal it melts
and the plastic mail and get stuck to
your blade it makes it very hard for you
to cut so by cutting on one side first I
remove part of the material first so I
get some material removed so when I flip
over there's not much material left for
it to melt in get stuck in my life so
when I flip it over that's when I
complete the cut
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there we go and see here it melts really
bad and stick to my blade makes it
really hard to make a cut and as you can
see there's some part I got slipped
because the light is covered with
plastic and it doesn't cut very
efficiently here we go nice and straight
so that was the straight cut which was
pretty easy and straightforward right
but imma show you how to cut a circle
the basic principle is still the same
you make a deep cut a deep groove one
round one circle and then you flip over
and complete the cut on the other side
it's basically the same way but a circle
requires a little bit more patience
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here we go nice and round hold a cut
outs on so nice and well pretty cool huh
so like someone I've tapped in the ring
as well
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here we go
final piece beautiful round piece I'm
sure you need a close-up on my cut here
let's see there instead of producing
dust like wood or metal Klux Klan's it
melts and sticks to the blades
that's why cutting Plexiglas with the
saw blade is a bit challenging so you
can see here this oscillating tool is
superior and cutting Plexiglas then a
jigsaw it's because the jigsaw blades it
moves up and down but the movement is
too much and that who make the Plexiglas
flats too much and crack Plexiglas
whereas this to the end of movement is
only one from eight degrees and it moved
back and forth and the movement is not
much enough to flex the plastic glass
and make it stable to cut so that's why
this tool is a lot easier and much
faster to cut than a jigsaw for a thin
plastic glass so there you have it
I'll cut Plexiglas with an oscillating
tool not only can you cut a straight
line very easily you can also easily cut
it into any shape that you want and next
time when I have some very cool projects
using these plastic glass pieces until
then see you next time
