---------------------------------------------------------- Kitfox-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 11/11/10: 9 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 0. 12:12 AM - Please Support The Lists... (Matt Dralle) 1. 06:11 AM - cutting windshield (egp8111) 2. 06:56 AM - Re: cutting windshield (sdemeyer) 3. 07:37 AM - Re: Re: cutting windshield (Guy Buchanan) 4. 07:40 AM - Re: cutting windshield (Lowell Fitt) 5. 08:02 AM - Re: cutting windshield (larry huntley) 6. 08:55 AM - Re: cutting windshield (Dee Young) 7. 09:08 AM - Re: cutting windshield (Marco Menezes) 8. 10:42 AM - Re: cutting windshield (egp8111) ________________________________ Message 0 _____________________________________ Time: 12:12:09 AM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: Kitfox-List: Please Support The Lists... Dear Listers, Just a reminder that November is the Matronics Email List Fund Raiser month. There are some very nice incentive gifts to choose from as well! Please make your Contribution today at: http://www.matronics.com/contribution or by dropping a personal check in the mail to: Matt Dralle / Matronics 581 Jeannie Way Livermore CA 94550 Thank you! Matt Dralle Matronics Email List Administrator ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:11:37 AM PST US Subject: Kitfox-List: cutting windshield From: "egp8111" I'm about to replace the windshield on my KF III. Whats the best way to make long straight cuts in the Lexan ? thanks, EG Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=318964#318964 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:56:23 AM PST US Subject: Kitfox-List: Re: cutting windshield From: "sdemeyer" I tried using my bandsaw on a scrap piece but it came out looking like crap, all chipped up and crooked. Then I used a 4" thin metal cutoff wheel on my angle grinder and followed the line I drew. It came out nearly perfect, no chipped edges and almost perfectly straight. The 4" wheel wants to go straight and it was remarkably easy. Just take it slow and don't try to cut through all at once. I made several passes, making the cut a little deeper each time until I was through. If you try to cut all the way through in one fell swoop, you will end up melting the plastic. Scott Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=318970#318970 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 07:37:58 AM PST US From: Guy Buchanan Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: Re: cutting windshield On 11/11/2010 6:54 AM, sdemeyer wrote: > Then I used a 4" thin metal cutoff wheel on my angle grinder and followed the line I drew. It came out nearly perfect, no chipped edges and almost perfectly straight. The 4" wheel wants to go straight and it was remarkably easy. I did it with a Dremel with the Dremel diamond cut-off blade. Go slow and DO cut all the way through. Make sure you have a line to follow and cut 1/32" outside the line. (One blade width.) You don't want to get the blade hot or the plastic starts melting onto it and it no longer cuts. If you need to cut corners do it in sections well outside the cutting line. Once you're done with the cut use a long (11") hard 60 grit sanding block to take the door down to the outside edge of the line. Use this block to sand radii into the corners as necessary. Next do the same with 220 and then 400, just removing the previous grit's scratches. Next use the Dremel buffing wheel with PBC (Plastic Buffing Compound) available by the stick to buff the edge until you can see into the plastic. (Don't let anything get hot, though.) This makes for a sexy finish and one that will resist cracking. -- Guy Buchanan Kitfox IV-1200 / 582-C / Warp 3cs / Soon to be a 912 ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 07:40:24 AM PST US From: "Lowell Fitt" Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: cutting windshield I just finished fitting my windshield on my Model IV. I am not necessarily saying this is the best way, but I used some of the aviation tin snips and cut within about an eighth inch of the line then used an electric plane to trim to the cut line. For the cut around the wing spar, I used a Dremel with a diamond cut off wheel and a drum sander in the Dremel for final smoothing. The Dremel was the most used tool when helping with the neighbors Lancair IV. Incidentally on the Lancair, the cut line was always marked with a strip of blue masking tape. This way, the cut dust would not obscure a drawn line and there was no fear of a permanent mark on the material being cut. Lowell -------------------------------------------------- From: "egp8111" Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 6:08 AM Subject: Kitfox-List: cutting windshield > > I'm about to replace the windshield on my KF III. Whats the best way to > make long straight cuts in the Lexan ? > > thanks, > EG > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=318964#318964 > > > ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 08:02:42 AM PST US From: "larry huntley" Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: cutting windshield If it is Lexan it is polycarbonate and you can cut it with most anything. I do mine on a band saw or if it is thin enough I sometimes use metal snips. It doesn't crack like acrylic. Still need to drill holes oversize though. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "egp8111" Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:08 AM Subject: Kitfox-List: cutting windshield > > I'm about to replace the windshield on my KF III. Whats the best way to > make long straight cuts in the Lexan ? > > thanks, > EG > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=318964#318964 > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 08:55:28 AM PST US From: Dee Young Subject: RE: Kitfox-List: cutting windshield I agree with Larry=2C I have had good success cutting several wind shields using the left right tin snips. Dee > From: asq@roadrunner.com > To: kitfox-list@matronics.com > Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: cutting windshield > Date: Thu=2C 11 Nov 2010 10:57:30 -0500 > > > If it is Lexan it is polycarbonate and you can cut it with most anything. I > do mine on a band saw or if it is thin enough I sometimes use metal snips . > It doesn't crack like acrylic. Still need to drill holes oversize though. > Larry > ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 09:08:38 AM PST US From: Marco Menezes Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: cutting windshield Metal shears. Not sexy but fast and easy. - Marco Menezes N99KX Hersey, MI Model 2 582-90 C-Box 3:1 w/clutch --- On Thu, 11/11/10, egp8111 wrote: From: egp8111 Subject: Kitfox-List: cutting windshield I'm about to replace the windshield on my KF III.- Whats the best way to make long straight cuts in the Lexan ? thanks, EG Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=318964#318964 le, List Admin. =0A=0A=0A ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 10:42:23 AM PST US Subject: Kitfox-List: Re: cutting windshield From: "egp8111" thanks everyone. 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