Below 60 degrees, leave a 1/8-in. gap. After installation, cover the gap with acrylic or urethane caulk. Avoid silicone-based caulks; they don't adhere well to vinyl.

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No matter how much you love it, working with acrylic (in its many forms) can be a difficult task to the new modder. We're here to clear up a bit of the confusion when it comes to bending, cutting ...

Laser cutting works by directing a laser together with a motion control system to follow a pattern to be cut out of a sheet of material. The laser either melts, burns, vaporizes away the material, or ...

In other cost-cutting moves, Trinseo in the last year has sold an acrylic sheet plant in Matamoros, Mexico, to Plaskolite LLC, closed a styrene monomer plant and a polycarbonate resin line in ...

What I've done is sandwich the acrylic sheet between 1/4" thick plywood sheets, this keeps it from flexing & cracking, drill a pilot hole first, then use a drill press with a hole saw attachment.