[Swansea Hackspace] Anyone got any two colour laserable acrylic spare?

[Tim Clark]

The other thought is you could stick masking tape over before you cut 
it, then you could flood the paint in after to fill the letters, let it 
dry a bit and peel the tape off, then you can give it to them before the 
paint is fully dry, but dry enough.

Tim


On 19/08/2016 15:26, Nathan Hackett wrote:
> Not a bad idea Tim, thanks. This has to be ready for 10pm Saturday 
> night so I haven't left myself much time for luxuries like letting 
> paint dry! Off to B&Q to get the wood now. I guess I could make an 
> A-frame style sign just out of acrylic, but heating and putting the 
> bend in has the potential for disaster.
> Is the laser cutter working ok at the moment?
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Tim Clark <eclipse at sucs.org 
> <mailto:eclipse at sucs.org>> wrote:
>
>     You could paint something then laser the paint off?
>
>     Tim
>
>
>     On 19/08/2016 15:13, Nathan Hackett wrote:
>>     I need to make a desk sign for someone at my work who's leaving
>>     to become a teacher, it's his last shift tomorrow night so this
>>     is very last minute. If anyone has any suitable scraps, size is
>>     roughly 200mm x 60mm. This is the sort of thing-
>>
>>     http://www.snamanufacturing.co.uk/images/pic-04_5_large.jpg
>>     <http://www.snamanufacturing.co.uk/images/pic-04_5_large.jpg>
>>
>>     Or maybe it would work better to laser etch some single-color
>>     acrylic and put sugru into the letters? Any advice would be
>>     greatly appreciated... Bat signal activated. :)
>>
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