Acrylic Sheet Edge Polishing

This design will do a faster job.

Acrylic sheet edge polishing.

Edge finisher company manufactures machines that produce clear polished edges on acrylic plastic sheets. The top countries of suppliers are china singapore from which the percentage of acrylic edge polishing machine supply is 99 1 respectively. Flame polishing the edges are milled and then pass an 800 f flame over the edge to a high luster great for the typical acrylic application such as a tabletop. The flame should be bluish nearly invisible approximately 3 75mm long and narrow.

Place a sanding block in the corner of a sheet of sandpaper and trace an outline around the block with a pencil. Sanding down your acrylic 1 cut out a piece of 180 grit sandpaper. Not every burner is suitable for flame polishing both the shape of the flame and the fuel have a major impact on the end result. Before this can be done the edges must be sanded as described above.

We also sell and service a full line of shannon plastic bending machines. For applications where edges are not exposed this is okay. Edge polishing is best done on a stationary polishing head. George vondriska demonstrates his expert woodworking tip for how to polish plexiglass acrylic edges.

Flame polishing acrylic with the help of a burner you can easily finish the edges of an acrylic sheet. Use 8 to 14 200 300 mm diameter bleached muslin wheels designed with bias strips which give the buffing wheel a pleated appearance. But before we get to that we should point out now that once the edge of an acrylic sheet has been polished it cannot be glued. It is important to remove the protective masking from the material s edge when flame polishing.

After you ve sanded the edge and removed all plastic from the glass you can use a torch to polish the edge and make it shine. However for a finer finished look to the sheet s border it s possible to use a variety of polishing or beveling techniques.