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| i want to make my own tackle box . i want to use poly carbonate like the just encase boxes are made from . Does anyone know where to get this stuff or how much it runs? Also any design blue prints or dimensions of a box like this id love to see them |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I would think most window manufacturers would have it. I used to get scraps from a local one for making lure lips.
Edited by horsehunter 4/2/2012 6:34 AM
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Location: Okoboji | i am making a blades box for the front of my boat that will be tall enough for 13's at the moment,,,i am using acrylic and solvent...not too hard. |
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| how do you start and how did you interlock the compartments or do you just but them against one another and glue um /? any push of the dock will get me going |
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Location: Okoboji | if you go on youtube and look up acrylic aquarium building..i think the username is joey or something. get a table saw and some acrylic and rip your dimensions, sand the cuts, and square up and get a needle applicator and some weld on and get to fusing the plastic...easy!!! |
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Location: Okoboji | the glue really isnt a glue,,it is a solvent that welds them together. |
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| thanks guys |
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| Anyone know the thickness of the polycarbonate that just encase uses to make their boxes? I'm thinking about making a box built into my casting deck. |
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Location: Middletown, Ohio | Check out this website, it's where I buy my Lexan for making lips. They are much cheaper than anywhere I could find in town. http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/default.aspx?catid=795&parentcatid...
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| I have used US Plastics in the past and they do have good price but I am more interested in knowing what thickness of polycarbonate that I would need in order to stand on when making a built in tackle box in my casting deck. |
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Location: Okoboji | chimes where are you at?? i got some thick stuff i can part with |
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| I can get some stuff too either 1/4" or 1/8" I manage stock at a window manufacturing company. |
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| I think I'm going to go with 1/8" Lexan and see where it takes me. It's supose to have 9000psi tinsil strength. Thinking about weld-on 45 to bond the sheets together.
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| Has anyone tried building one of these? Whats the best option for a solvent... I hear regular acetone will work. |
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Location: Okoboji | no acetone dont work, if anything it would be mek and that stuff is nasty. you can go to hub hobby and get the needle applicator and the solvent right at the store. i will get the names of the stuff i got..works sweet also look on youtube how to do it..super easy.
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