taiwanluthiers
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2016
- Location
- Xinjhuan District, New Taipei City
Right now I'm helping someone with prototyping a product, and the product includes a very large (4x8 feet sheet) thin PVC sheets that I currently cut with a razor using an acrylic pattern as a guide. It's tedious and very tiring to do, but since it's prototype stage, it's fine.
But eventually I will need to find a way to automate the cutting. I mentioned laser but then laser cutting PVC will release fumes, and so this isn't good for the laser or the operator.
What do you think is a good way to cut PVC sheets? Laser? Water jet? Routers (my concern with router is bit wear and also all the dust that will clog the bit)? Or some other method (like those computer vinyl cutters that cuts with a computer guided razor)?
The plan is to produce something like 5000 units a month...
If using water jet do we need the garnet grains? The PVC isn't all that hard so I don't imagine it needing abrasives...
But eventually I will need to find a way to automate the cutting. I mentioned laser but then laser cutting PVC will release fumes, and so this isn't good for the laser or the operator.
What do you think is a good way to cut PVC sheets? Laser? Water jet? Routers (my concern with router is bit wear and also all the dust that will clog the bit)? Or some other method (like those computer vinyl cutters that cuts with a computer guided razor)?
The plan is to produce something like 5000 units a month...
If using water jet do we need the garnet grains? The PVC isn't all that hard so I don't imagine it needing abrasives...