Unlike drilling a hole through metal or wood plexiglass sheets call for extra caution.
Acrylic sheet hole saw.
Clamp the plexiglass sheet to the work surface for stability.
Use the saw at a slower speed or keep the material cool by spraying water over the cut point during the saw operation.
Use a 10 plastic cutting saw blade to cut acrylic on a miter saw or table saw.
It is very important to push the circular saw feeding rate within a slow and smooth motion.
Materials needed to cut acrylic or plexiglass sheets.
Use a plastic laminate scorer to cut acrylic by hand.
Follow these instructions to cut a circle in a sheet of plexiglass.
Line the plexiglass sheet along the cut line.
Use a glass cutter or the dull side of a utility knife to score the plexiglass along the mark line 5 to 10 times.
Acrylic sheet larger than the size of your project.
Aim your circular saw on the plexiglass sheet and wait until it reaches its full speed the best rpm rate for cutting plexiglass sheets is 3450 rpm and no more than that 10.
Acrylic sheets can be machined with most shop tools.
Use a 7 1 4 plastic cutting saw blade to cut acrylic with a circular saw.
This video shows how to easily cut acrylic sheet such as perspex lucite plexiglas optix oroglas acrylite sumipex cryolite etc.
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That said below is a list of steps on how to drill a hole in your plexiglass sheet.
Use acrylic jigsaw blades to cut acrylic with a jigsaw.
This will help you grasp the process to avoid making fatal mistakes on the main job.
Thick plexiglass sheets are inch and above.
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