What is the best method to hide a join in lightbox?

[Shane Drew]

I dovetail the join and it is the least likely to be seen. or you could bridge it with a clear joiner, but it tends to look a bit untidy.

[f1graphics]

Thanks

Can you bridge the join with the opal acrylic as clear may show the light through at the join to much???

Also what glue would you use??

Thanks

[Shane Drew]

quote f1graphics:

Thanks

Can you bridge the join with the opal acrylic as clear may show the light through at the join to much???

Thanks

If you can get an opal bridge, sure, but an opal bridge will sho up darker, as it is effectively a double layer of opal…. if you get my drift

[Shane Drew]

you can buy (here anyway) crystal clear acrylic ‘welding glue’. Any acrylic supplier should be able to point you in the right direction

[Guy Burt-Davies]

Shane’s first response is probably the best way to go, dovetail or lap joint the panels, any bridging piece – even a clear one – could show through the opal acrylic.

[chris@lazerpics]

Hi

Try Westward Plastics 0117 935 8058, tensol is what we use for acrylic

chris

[Andy Gorman]

Are you supplying the lightbox as well? If so, you should be able to buy it with the panels already made and fitted, dovetailed and with a joining strip on the back. That’s what I do.

[Martin Pearson]

As Andy has said if you are buying the box in just get the panels supplied as well and ask for they to be overlapped, you can do it yourself with a hand router and get pretty good results but it’s far easier to buy the panels along with the box.