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Re: Cutting baseplates (Was: Green plate sizes?)
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:14:52 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> In lugnet.general, Will Hess writes:
> > > I must admit that I have cut a few straight road plates in half. How have • you
> > > done it? I used an exacto knife, but had trouble cutting in a straight • line
> > > despite using a ruler. Also, Do you cut from the top side or the bottom?
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> > Patience. Clamp the plate and ruler together and make many (MANY!) light
> > cuts along the surface of the plate (1). This takes a while but it works!
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> I haven't tried, but you should be able to get a nice clean edge by scoring
> with a knife (one pass) and then snapping. If done right, you don't break
> either piece. You also shouldn't feel bad about cutting base plates. In just a
> brief look at my baseplates, I find an 8x16 baseplate which TLC has cut to
> size, and a 16x24. The 16x16 and 16x32 baseplates appear to not be cut so I
> would guess that TLC has molds for 16x16, 16x32, 32x32, and 48x48 flat
> baseplates (plus of course all the raised baseplates).
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> Frank
Has anyone tried using a big paper cutter? You might need to clamp it down
somehow to prevent it from pulling to the side but it may work pretty well.
John
member #388
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| (...) I haven't tried, but you should be able to get a nice clean edge by scoring with a knife (one pass) and then snapping. If done right, you don't break either piece. You also shouldn't feel bad about cutting base plates. In just a brief look at (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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