Update: I've published an instructable for the rest of the project here. This is also entered into the hurricane lasers contest.
This is my first instructable, and my first contest entry, so if I've done anything wrong, I appologise.
This idea (and the asociated tool design) was part of a GCSE tech project (tip for anyone doing a resistant materials exam; making your own specialised tool gets marks!)
The rest of the project is documented in this instructable
On my project, I decided that I wanted to have a roller shutter, like on old roll-top desks. However, to manufacture a traditional roller shutter would have taken too long. Therefore, I came up with the idea of using corflute (or correx, corriboard, etc). This has other advantages too:
It is recyclable
It is relatively easily cut
It can, if wanted, be signwritten
It is availiable from old "For Sale" signs
The technique I used could also be used to produce a neat curve from corflute.
This is my first instructable, and my first contest entry, so if I've done anything wrong, I appologise.
This idea (and the asociated tool design) was part of a GCSE tech project (tip for anyone doing a resistant materials exam; making your own specialised tool gets marks!)
The rest of the project is documented in this instructable
On my project, I decided that I wanted to have a roller shutter, like on old roll-top desks. However, to manufacture a traditional roller shutter would have taken too long. Therefore, I came up with the idea of using corflute (or correx, corriboard, etc). This has other advantages too:
It is recyclable
It is relatively easily cut
It can, if wanted, be signwritten
It is availiable from old "For Sale" signs
The technique I used could also be used to produce a neat curve from corflute.
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The Idea:
In order to make the corflute bend, I cut every other flute out of one side of the corflute
Safety Warnings: The cutter I made for this project used 2 scalpel blades. These are sharp, so be carful with them. (I know this is obvious, but I thought I'd better be on the safe side on my first instructable)
In order to make the corflute bend, I cut every other flute out of one side of the corflute
Safety Warnings: The cutter I made for this project used 2 scalpel blades. These are sharp, so be carful with them. (I know this is obvious, but I thought I'd better be on the safe side on my first instructable)
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However, if I understand the use of your tool, you needed to line the tool up very carefully with the corriboard at the beginning of each cut. If the vertically aligned part of your tool had a tongue protruding from it, of a size to just fit inside an uncut channel of the corriboard, you could just shove it into channel with no manual precision needed at all.
I did consider this, but it would have to be mounted at the back, leading to problems getting rid of the cut corflute, so I stuck with this design. To be honest, It wasn't that hard lining it up, as the blades were 3mm apart and the flutes were about 4mm wide. Once I'd got used to it (and you get used to it pretty quickly after cutting that much corflute) It didn't take long to align.
I entered this in the hurricane lasers contest, so please vote for it!