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Watertight Plastic Cube

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sparticus13
Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:15 pm Watertight Plastic Cube Reply with quote

Ok so I'm not sure if this can be done or not. I'm looking to make a cube shaped enclosure with 5 side and 1 exposed open side. I need it to be translucent and watertight. So I was thinking of a plastic cube with all 5 sides as one part. Instead of trying to take 5 sides and seal them together. In short just like an aquarium.

What tooling would be used in this?

Thanks
Chris

sparticus13
Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:33 am Reply with quote

I think I found my own solution. Either Polycarbonate or Polystyrene milled. I did not realize you could use the mill tool on these.
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