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We have trucks going out to these areas on a regular base. The best is to speak to our Pretoria West branch (012) 352 2000 and find out when they have a truck in the area. Normally there wont be a shipping charge if you are willing to wait when a truck is there.

What about a digital print on a sandblast efect vinyl. Then applying the vinyl to a clear Plexi.

@ TheModDoctor - The colour that you are looking for is blue 700, dark blue transparent. It is a Perspex and can be bought in small pieces and will probalbly set you back about R130.00 excl VAT. Yes we also deliver outside Pretoria. (Please specify outside Pretoria) @ senile - Bad news on that aweso...

@ Senile: What type or coulour Perspex or Plexi are you looking for? Yes, we dont sell 5m x 5m but if it is one of the standard colours, you could buy as little as 1 pcs of 100mm x 100mm. Our sheet sizes are 3m x 2m and can be sold in half sheets also. 1,5m x 2m. This applies to non standard colours...

There are a couple of companys in Gauteng that could help with supplies.

1. Delta7 in Pretoria
2. Screenmore supplies in JHB
3. Maziey - has limited stock on inks, emulsion and cleaners.

I am glad to say that we are back and will be able to assist with any questions or help needed on the Perspex / Plexi side. :hello1: I will continue my reading on the forums to see all the good work done by all you guys and girls, hopefully being able to lend a hand and one day completing a Maizey M...

Go as an Engineer, -hardhat, white coat and lots of pens.

Did you get any feedback from them?
Sorry for the questions, but I am interested in the customer service.


Your mod lookes awesome 8O .

Good work

Who did you e-mail @ maizey?

That is correct.

Stress can be released from the acrylic. After all the manufacturing (tapping, glueing, bending, etc...) the product must be heated up to the operating temperature (+80 deg C) and then kept at that temperature for a time (+/- 1 hour). The cooldown period is also extended to about 2+ hours. That shou...

Excuse my friend, he's a bit slow.

I was under the hammer (tapping) impresion.

Skidd, that is exactly what I mean. Just make sure that the groove is wider than the wall thickness of the tube. The effect that you get is a pool of glue where the tube sinks into.

Perspex is 10 times stronger than glass, but scratches easily.

What do you need to do? 8O

Thanx Grim, doing that now.

I am based in Head Office, which is located in Pretoria

All Maizey branches deliver.

DAE, sorry that we are hijacking your post.

All acrylic glues work similar. They break down the material and rebuild the acrylic to become one solid piece of acrylic.

Yes, Maizey delivers. You can phone your order in and give the salesman your delivery details.

Skidd, that will work, but make them bigger than the actual tube to allow the tube to be sunk into these blocks

Tensol 12 is a general glue, but isnt that strong.
When glueing tubes, you want your acrylic to be the same type. This means that the tube is extruded, you want to use extruded blocks for the bases and tops.
Extruded acrylic is best glued using Acryfix or Tensol 30.

Be carefull with acetone, the acrylic is extruded which puts a lot of stress on the material. Adding more stress (acetone) can cause the material to crack and start to leak. When doing a res, get thicker blocks for base and top. Cut a sicular groove into the block (size of tube) halfway into acrylic...

Thanks Grim, got the software, but didnt need it. How would one go about creating that windows disk including the SATA drivers? When I installed the Nlite software it showed a message about ???.NET, but was too quick on the draw with clicking the next button. Couldnt see what was needed. Any ideas w...

Doob,
The tubes are sized from 5mm OD & 3mm ID up to 300mm OD & 292mm ID.
Let me know what OD you require, we can guide you to the correct tube.

Check for any chemicals that might be in the cooling agent that you are using, could attack the acrylic.

Thank you Skidd. Samaya, you forgot to add the download and print button.

I have spoken to our one sister company that uses this amterial to build the Lumiled with, and hopefully we can organize some offcuts for you. They will charge you for it and you will have to fetch it in JHB. Hopefully I will have an answer by early next week. Sorry for the price shock. :oops: Do yo...