How cut puck board?

[skiburger]

It looks that I'll get some puck board from my local icering, but I dunno how to cut it. It will have to be straight and cleen, so what should I use??

What equipment?

What cutting disc? (donno how to say that in english)

 

[chames]

jigsaw

 

[skiburger]

And did you try it? I thing it will be hard to keep it cutting straight. Do I need some special blades for plastic?

 

[-Nick-]

i just used a regular circle saw blade and it worked fine

 

[chames]

i haven't tried it, but i will be doing it tomorow when i make a couple rails. Just draw a straight line with a marker and keep the saw right on the line. If you can't do that then you must have polio or something

 

[skiburger]

ok, and are you going to use some special blade for plastics or just some regular for cutting wood?

 

[_Joe_]

just use a regular circular saw, and as for the blade, a plastic blade would just make the cut a little bit smoother, so if you already have one, you might as well use it, but if not a wood blade will work fine, and for the line, get a chalk box and snap a line, its the best way to make sure the cut is straight, and its pretty important too, and then just follow the line when you cut and you'll be good

 

[chames]

scratch the jigsaw. I built my rails today and used a circular blace skillsaw. It worked great. You don't need a special blade, i used the same one for wood as i did the puckboard. It had like 1/2 inch or so teeth on it.