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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 14:28:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz wrote:
> 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).
For some reason (ie, "I heard somewhere, at sometime"), I was thinking that
baseplates were formed by more of a continuous sheet-feed mechanism. Some
kind of vacuum-forming, but with higher precision.
Steve
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 | | Re: Cutting baseplates (Was: Green plate sizes?)
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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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