How To Cut Clear Ceiling Light Panel

It is lightweight and has an ergonomically designed handle that provides a firm comfortable grip.

How to cut clear ceiling light panel.

The extra 1 8 inch will allow the panel to sit in the railing. All are available for simple online purchase or pick up in our store. Ideal for precise cutting of plastic light panels. How to prepare acrylic sheet for work how to cut acrylic.

Drag the knife down until you fully cover the first side of the panel. Plastic light panels for suspension grid systems can be easily cut with the cutting tool for plastic sheets. Begin by pressing the edge of the knife to the panel until the knife has penetrated the plastic. You have options when it comes to cutting an acrylic light diffuser but one option requires no power tools or saws.

Bob shows you how you can cut acrylic lighting panels down to the size you need using simple tools available for under 40 at any large box store. How to cut acrylic sheet by hand. Place a straightedge on the marks and use c clamps to clamp the straightedge to the table. Measure the cut line with a tape measure making marks on both ends of the panel with a felt tip marker.

Following the first cut made turn to the other side of the panel until you completely remove it. Acrylic light diffuser panels soften the light emitted from fluorescent lights. Find ceiling lighting panels at eplastics. We offer a wide variety of high quality lighting panels in stock sizes oversize completely custom sizes.

How to cut acrylic sheet by hand with only hand tools. Since no two lighting fixtures are the same we can cut each and every panel to the exact size that is required. In between the edges of the masking tape cut the panel using a knife. First start by laying the plastic dimple side down flat on a work table.

I am using a circular metal cutter. Then move the panel to the edge of the table with the cutoff hanging over.