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- From: perley@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (Don Perley)
- Subject: Re: glass vs. acrylic glazing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.145520.8419@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
- References: <1jhfseINNj3v@ua.d.umn.edu> <MACRAKIS.93Jan20131437@lakatos.osf.org> <1jlb1uINNhvi@ua.d.umn.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:55:20 GMT
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- In article <1jlb1uINNhvi@ua.d.umn.edu> dcole@ua.d.umn.edu (david cole) writes:
- >
- >OK OK. Various objections have been raised to screwing acrylic on the
- >outside. On to plan "B":
- >
- >would much prefer a single sheet. Then I could hold the thing in place with
- >the turning butterfly gizmos mentioned in another post and which I now
- >remember :)
-
- If you can't use the butterfly gizmos directly on the plastic (need an oblong
- hole?) there is another way to avoid wearing out your woodscrew holes.
- You can get metal inserts that screw into a hole in the wood and themselves
- have a machine threaded hole. Then you can insert and remove screws to
- your heart's delight without wearing out the threads. If you drill
- holes in the plastic slightly oversize, that will allow for some
- thermal expansion.
-
- -don perley
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