Plastic sheet??

[tvman44]

I want to cut a new sub-base plate for my Dewalt router out of plastic sheet about 1/4" thick, what would be the best to cut on the scroll saw?  Acrylic, Lexan or what.  I would prefer something I can find easily like at a big box store in small quantities.  Any experienced help and advice out there.

[EIEIO]

Lexan (a GE brand name) is usually called Polycarbonate today. It is tough as nails. I would suggest that rather than acrylic.

[WynnD]

How about "masonite" pretty tough stuff as I remember. Or maybe some sort of "bakelite" material.

[tvman44]

Except I want it to be clear.

[dirtrider73068]

Any of that lexan acrylic polycarbanite can be found at either lowes or home depot, I have looked, trying to find really thin sheets at the time was looking at using that as a table top cover to make the surface slick over tapeing or glueing something down like formica but could not find anything thin like I wanted.

One of those is kinda pricey to me for plastic, one is really hard, other kinda flexes but scratches easy think thats lexan.

[DWSudekum]

Most of what you will find in the big box stores will be .091 inches thick or thinner.  To get .25 you will have to go to someplace like this -  http://www.ebay.com/bhp/1-4-lexan.  Lexan or even Acrylic at that thickness is not cheap.  I saw one link to a site that carries product that was inches thick and they were very proud of their product.  Expect to shell out a fair amount for it at 1/4 of an inch.


DW

[EIEIO]

http://www.yelp.com/biz/american-plastic-distributors-inc-columbus
This place in Columbus sells cut-off scraps of different kinds of plastics for $2/lb. I don't know if they'd send you some, but it might be worth a call. Or maybe there's a similar place near you?

[KarlB]

I'm not sure how much you want to spend, but you might consider something like this:

http://www.lowes.com/ProductDisplay?partNumber=275158-41401-12010003&langId=-1&storeId=10151&productId=1208301&catalogId=10051&cmRelshp=req&rel=nofollow&cId=PDIO1

It is the Milescraft replacement base plate.  It also has snap in bushings which is much easier than the screw on kind.

Karl