A friend has asked me to put a roundover on a piece of corian. Anything to be aware of/concerned about?
Does it rout like wood? more abrasive?
Any help would be appreciated.
Joe
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18 years ago
routing corian
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Yup. Slow down on the tip speed and feedrate if you can. Make sure you're sharp. If it is real Corian/Wilsonart/Meganite/Staron, the abrasiveness not that bad. Some of the polyester look-alikes suck canal water.
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It is much easier than you would think. I just routed a Tslot in corian; piece of cake.
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It creates a lot of static electricity on your tools. When I have routed it, I had to keep my thumb anchored on a metal part of the router to keep from getting shocked. It did the same thing to my PC belt sander. It shocked the crap out of me for weeks. I finally took it apart and blew all the dust out of it and then it was fine. Anyone else ever experience this?
Bryan
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The acrylic versions of solid surface, such as Corian, Wilsonart, Meganite and others flake off real nice when using a sharp bit. Nice micro-thin wafers that float like snowflakes in the shape of the cutting bit. If and when you're getting a lot of dust, you're no longer cutting, but grinding. Slow rotational speeds and slow feedrates will reduce the 'grinding' effects. The dust? Well, I had it analysed on two occasions. Once by the labour standards people, the second time by an outside lab at the request of a client. It is considered 'nuisance dust' no different than going down a country road in a convertible with my sweetie on a warm summer day..yessir, picnic basket, soft music...bottle of wine...*slap*..
The formulation is methyl methacrylate and aluminum tri-hydrate... dentists make capped teeth from that stuff. After it is manufactured, the dust is inert and quite heavy. Within a cpl of minutes, the air is clear. I will always recommend wearing a mask, and I do, but there's no 'booga-booga' aspect to the dust whatsoever. Dust from many wood species are way worse for your health than a totally inert substance like solid surface dust....at least the acrylic types. (As opposed to the garbage polyester ones)