Hey everyone I just wanted to share a job that I recently finished up with you
the sign is made out of a 2-color expanded pvc sheet and then glued together
I think it turned out pretty good its a basic sign but I love working with plastic
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Looks great! What kind of bit do you use for your plastic?
Thanks
so in this job it consisted of 3 tools
All Onsrud except one
62-712 .125"
63-744 .25"
Hard Plastic Single O-Flute Tools
then I used a 60 deg v-bit (no name china)
these tools work great in the plastic chipload is very important I find in plastic so it does not get to hot
I have not worked with plastic in awhile with the x-carve and mostly I only worked with hdpe
settings I used for this job where
18000rpm
200ipm feed
200ipm ramp feed
800 ipm rapid
.130 doc
on both spiral tools
and then for the v-bit
18000 rpm
200ipm feed
80ipm plunge feed
800ipm rapid
.0625 flat depth
these would be good settings to do a percentage of on the x-carve if you wish but for the spiral tools and v-bit feed I would run that on the x-carve in 3mm material with these tools I would lower the plunge rate on the v-bit to around 40 for the x-carve and the rapids I would lower to 200-250ipm max
for the 3mm material you really want to cut in one single pass conventional method only
if someone knows why o-flute tools are not supposed to cut mdf please let me know I have yet to figure that one out
and I dont mean like cut straight mdf
I am meaning cutting through plastic or aluminum into the spoilboard just a bit