What is the best tool to cut plastic?
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What is the best tool to cut plastic?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “hot knife for cutting thick plastic“
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What sort of plastic and how do you want to cut it? Are you talking about milling or turning, cutting film, engineering plastic – you’ll have to tell us more.
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It often depends on the type of plastic, shape, and thickness. Generally you don’t want to melt it. A sharp slow blade works well, sometime with water. Or a laser if the fumes are not too bad.
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which tool is determined by how thick the plastic is you are cutting. 1/4 inch or less I would use a steel straight edges and a razor knife. for thicker plastic there are special saw blades for cutting plastic for jigsaws and poseer saws.
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There is no “best” tool. It depends on the plastic (there are nearly infinite molecular compositions and physical properties). Slitting a film is completely different from cutting ultra high molecular weight polyethylene. I could probably write about this for an hour and barely scratch the surface of it.
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