Seeking Advice About Dremel Accessories

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

JCH13

Diamond Member
Sep 14, 2010
4,981
66
91
Pay me to cut it with a cnc router or cnc mill. It will be of excellent accuracy and free of manual mistakes/defects.
 

JCH13

Diamond Member
Sep 14, 2010
4,981
66
91
Also, PETG is a wonderful lexan/polycarbonate replacement if you do not need amazing impact strength.
 

NutBucket

Lifer
Aug 30, 2000
27,036
548
126
Come to think of it I know someone too. Guy in San Diego owns a contract machine shop and makes car parts too. Sketch it out and he can definitely cut it on the cheap.

CNC laser JCH

I had him make me some parts out of mild steel plate. He cut with a CNC plasma torch.
 

JCH13

Diamond Member
Sep 14, 2010
4,981
66
91
Come to think of it I know someone too. Guy in San Diego owns a contract machine shop and makes car parts too. Sketch it out and he can definitely cut it on the cheap.

CNC laser JCH

I had him make me some parts out of mild steel plate. He cut with a CNC plasma torch.

Yup. CNC laser is a good option for PETG and acrylic. Polycarbonate is... iffy. What evaporates from PC can redeposit on the laser optics and gunk them up, resulting in failure. Some outfits have setups to mitigate this, others do not and will not cut PC.

I have a local outfit for laser cutting. I only have access to a 40W Epilogue setup, which is pretty okay, but doesn't have the most cosmetically-pleasing results. Hard to beat a $1m fiber laser...

If OP wants a practical answer though - a coping saw will get the job done. Or basically anything that cuts wood nicely. Even shears will do a good job with thin PC sheet.
 

BonzaiDuck

Lifer
Jun 30, 2004
15,785
1,500
126
I don't get it. Lexan is very easy to machine, very forgiving. I don't see why you need a dremel tool at all. A drill (better still a drill press) and fine tooth sabre saw blade should get that done fine, then if you want to file, even sand and polish the edges, do that too. Lexan is hard enough to make that possible unlike a lot of other plastics, but even better than acrylic in not being easy to chip or crack.

The two main things not to do to lexan is try to grind it, or motorized sanding tools, either of which create too much heat. A saw usually isn't remotely close to that unless it is extremely dull.
I was cleaning up my garden cabinet the other day, and found a 1/4" x 3" (2.5) x 24" piece of so-called "hobby wood". It's poplar. I'd bought a handful of them for some minor woodworking projects, but may have thrown away the other three or four pieces.

So I've done the "fine" work of precise stenciling for the cut-out parts of the faceplate (or plates -- I'll explain). I made two blanks from the poplar, which are currently in a vise to let the glue set, bonding them back to back or doubling the width to 1/2". They are precisely cut, and just a tad larger than needed for a perfect fit in the dashboard's "plastic box".

I can fit the GAMA 3-pin LED switch and a USB port on either side of the BT06 (Chinese) MP3 player, which sits in a fitted hole. Took me some time getting the shape of that big hole to cut a precision stencil and transfer to one of the poplar pieces.

I can also cut the LEXAN the same way, but the poplar seems easier to work with. I can stain it and add a coat of polyurethane clear varnish later. The LEXAN can eventually be fitted on the front of the assembly, and the MP3 player will just exactly mate with the surface without protruding. For the moment, it protrudes 1/8" from the poplar -- or it will, when I finish the cutting.

I have some Forstner hole-cutting bits in my tool cabinet. So I can use my drill-press to cut out the material from the large hole. The small 0.5"x0.71" and similar hole for the USB port can be routed out with a Dremel cutting tool, then filed and sanded.

There will be less "inner" construction with foam-core/board than I anticipated. The dashboard's plastic box is a tapered rectangle, so the rear surface is smaller than the rectangular front hole. I'll cut three pieces of foam board to fit the back of the box, cut a 1-1/16" hole in the centers, glue them together and then fit the stacked rectangles to the female cigar-lighter port at the rear of the box. With that snug fit, the 1/2" thick poplar can be secured to the MP3 player, and it should all fit snugly.

I've tested my GAMA LED switch with the player, and completed the essential wiring to a fuse-box tap. This is going to be very neat. Seems like a lot of trouble to make an MP3 player part of the dashboard assembly, but the sound is very good, and everything works nicely.

It's gonna be cool! I hope I can eventually find the time to post a picture.
 

BonzaiDuck

Lifer
Jun 30, 2004
15,785
1,500
126
OK. I've got half the pictures I need for another thread, which I'll start here within the next two days.

"Introducing -- my Super-Dooper Trooper and a Final Word on my MP3-player Project"

You cell-phone jockeys like taking pictures with those I-Phones and Android phones. I had to get out my digital camera -- somehow a preference because I seldom have a need to take pictures, even with my phone. I'd planned to post my Trooper pictures eventually, so we'll see what kind of day we have tomorrow for pics. It's overcast and windy in the So-Cal Inland Empire -- just as well . . .
 
sale-70-410-exam    | Exam-200-125-pdf    | we-sale-70-410-exam    | hot-sale-70-410-exam    | Latest-exam-700-603-Dumps    | Dumps-98-363-exams-date    | Certs-200-125-date    | Dumps-300-075-exams-date    | hot-sale-book-C8010-726-book    | Hot-Sale-200-310-Exam    | Exam-Description-200-310-dumps?    | hot-sale-book-200-125-book    | Latest-Updated-300-209-Exam    | Dumps-210-260-exams-date    | Download-200-125-Exam-PDF    | Exam-Description-300-101-dumps    | Certs-300-101-date    | Hot-Sale-300-075-Exam    | Latest-exam-200-125-Dumps    | Exam-Description-200-125-dumps    | Latest-Updated-300-075-Exam    | hot-sale-book-210-260-book    | Dumps-200-901-exams-date    | Certs-200-901-date    | Latest-exam-1Z0-062-Dumps    | Hot-Sale-1Z0-062-Exam    | Certs-CSSLP-date    | 100%-Pass-70-383-Exams    | Latest-JN0-360-real-exam-questions    | 100%-Pass-4A0-100-Real-Exam-Questions    | Dumps-300-135-exams-date    | Passed-200-105-Tech-Exams    | Latest-Updated-200-310-Exam    | Download-300-070-Exam-PDF    | Hot-Sale-JN0-360-Exam    | 100%-Pass-JN0-360-Exams    | 100%-Pass-JN0-360-Real-Exam-Questions    | Dumps-JN0-360-exams-date    | Exam-Description-1Z0-876-dumps    | Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps    | Dumps-HPE0-Y53-exams-date    | 2017-Latest-HPE0-Y53-Exam    | 100%-Pass-HPE0-Y53-Real-Exam-Questions    | Pass-4A0-100-Exam    | Latest-4A0-100-Questions    | Dumps-98-365-exams-date    | 2017-Latest-98-365-Exam    | 100%-Pass-VCS-254-Exams    | 2017-Latest-VCS-273-Exam    | Dumps-200-355-exams-date    | 2017-Latest-300-320-Exam    | Pass-300-101-Exam    | 100%-Pass-300-115-Exams    |
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/    | http://www.portvapes.co.uk/    |