Ingeborg Foco on tue 12 oct 99
I purchased ABS .250 x 48 x96 Haircell Black Sheets (same material that
Plasti Bats are made from) and cut out my own, With care you can drill holes
that are round.
Ingeborg
Jeff & Melanie Boock on wed 13 oct 99
Where does one procure this kind of stuff?
Jeff
jeff@boock.com
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
>I purchased ABS .250 x 48 x96 Haircell Black Sheets (same material that
>Plasti Bats are made from) and cut out my own, With care you can drill holes
>that are round.
>
>Ingeborg
Ingeborg Foco on thu 14 oct 99
Jeff,
Look in your yellow pages under plastic and call around. . At a local retail
plastic shop, the cost of one sheet was somewhere around $l34.00 &
questionable if it is worth all of the effort at that price. I purchased
mine thru a tool and die maker who had a wholesale account at a plastic
supplier. I paid $74,32 per sheet in Feb of l998. It helps to have a drill
press to drill the holes.
I looked at all of the home improvement type of stores including lumber yards
and none of them carried anything like this.Good luck
Ingeborg
Jeff Campana on fri 15 oct 99
Ingeborg,
I got a couple of questions:
1-Approximately how many bats can be made from one of these sheets?
2-when cutting these bats, is a hole required in the middle for a jig?
Anyway, I'm in school, and my the other students in my class each ordered 10
bats, all unusable(or at least not conveniently so). My professor decided to
set up a jig, which requires only a hand drill and a rat-tail file. It took me
only 5 minutes to drill all of these. The Plasti-Bats, when ordered in bulk,
undrilled cost less than 5 dollars a peice. Not bad if you ask me. The product
is high quality excluding the holes, so drilling your own is a pretty good deal.
Some freinds of mine bought plexiglass for about 30 bucks a sheet, sandblasted
and drilled it, then cut hexagonal bats, to eliminate waste, and got 6 bats per
sheet, nice, but a little brittle.
Jeff
Ingeborg Foco wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Jeff,
>
> Look in your yellow pages under plastic and call around. . At a local retail
> plastic shop, the cost of one sheet was somewhere around $l34.00 &
> questionable if it is worth all of the effort at that price. I purchased
> mine thru a tool and die maker who had a wholesale account at a plastic
> supplier. I paid $74,32 per sheet in Feb of l998. It helps to have a drill
> press to drill the holes.
>
> I looked at all of the home improvement type of stores including lumber yards
> and none of them carried anything like this.Good luck
>
> Ingeborg
Ingeborg Foco on sun 17 oct 99
Jeff,
I can't really tell you how many bats come to a sheet ---it depends on the
size bats you want. I have 24" ,l5 1/2", and 11 1/2" bats. Yes, There is a
small hole in the center - I have a drill press which helps a lot. However,
the large bats had to be hand drilled as my press is too small.
Maybe you read the posting from the fellow who doesn't even use pins. He
sounds very ingenious and maybe you could try his method.
As for using plexiglass --it works. I've used other scrap plastic given to
me and I don't even bother to sand one side--not necessary and besides they
get rough soon enough.
Ingeborg
,
| |
|
