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Customizing acrylic

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Does anyone know the safest way to open a hole made out of acrylic? I have a probe holder that was built into my custom sump and my apex temp probe is just a hair too big. I wanna try and open it up a little bit but never worked with acrylic. Would something as simple as a drill work?
 
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dougc

Drills are a bit risky. If the bit catches, the acrylic might crack. I would use a round file or a dremel with a sanding drum (low speed to avoid melting the acrylic).

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dougc said:
Drills are a bit risky. If the bit catches, the acrylic might crack. I would use a round file or a dremel with a sanding drum (low speed to avoid melting the acrylic).

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Good call, I have a dremel at work.
 
hans24hrs

hans24hrs

Dremel is a really good choice. If not I have done it with drill, but you have to start with a bit close in size and move up incrementally and have strong steady hands. Start drill at full speed and slowly lower bit.If you lower to fast it will grab acrylic and either crack it or rip it from the sump. Not to mention your wrist will be hurting lol. Good luck, I would do dremel with sanding bit
 
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hans24hrs said:
Dremel is a really good choice. If not I have done it with drill, but you have to start with a bit close in size and move up incrementally and have strong steady hands. Start drill at full speed and slowly lower bit.If you lower to fast it will grab acrylic and either crack it or rip it from the sump. Not to mention your wrist will be hurting lol. Good luck, I would do dremel with sanding bit
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Yeah that's exactly what I pictured happening too! Lol I'm gonna go the dremel way for sure!
 
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Just in case anyone needs a Dremel, I went to the Lowes over the weekend and bought a Dremel kit for $25! It was 50% off
 
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