{"id":119,"date":"2006-10-17T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/17\/polycarbonate-ahoy\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T19:07:43","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T18:07:43","slug":"polycarbonate-ahoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/17\/polycarbonate-ahoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Polycarbonate ahoy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahoy me harties! I knows you be reading this now, but back when this all happened, it was around September 19th, which all good scurvey dogs knows, be national talk like a pirate day!<\/p>\n<p>I quote yee from the ships logs of the talk that led me to bountiful lands of polycarbonate<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To: UK Pinball Yahoo Group<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone tried this to make their own replacement plastics?<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;d like to give it a try. Anyone know a good place to get<br \/>\n0.040&#8243; thick Polycarbonate sheet other than dodgy people on ebay?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nJames.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>From: Roger<\/p>\n<p>Aharr, here be polycarbonate;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casupply.co.uk\/acatalog\/solid_polycarbonate.html\"><font color=\"#9136ad\">http:\/\/www.casupply.co.uk\/acatalog\/solid_polycarbonate.html<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.. I went online and completly mis-read the prices&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To: UK Pinball Yahoo Group<\/p>\n<p>Those scurvey dogs be tickling my parrot if they think I be handing<br \/>\nout 90 gold pieces for one A4 sheet!<\/p>\n<p>Splice the main brace, Raise the anchor and set sail for eBay!<\/p>\n<p>Avast!, Bountiful lands be sighted off the starboard bow!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.ebay.co.uk\/search\/search.dll?satitle=2mm+polycarbonate\"><font color=\"#247cd4\">http:\/\/search.ebay.co.uk\/search\/search.dll?satitle=2mm+polycarbonate<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nCapin&#8217; James.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>To: UK Pinball Yahoo Group<\/p>\n<p>ha-har, me eye patch be blockin&#8217; me counting eye! That be 90 gold<br \/>\npieces for a 3m x 2m sheet!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we does business with the land lubbers after all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nDeck Swabber James<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>From: Andrew<\/p>\n<p>Hay, are you a real pirate?<br \/>\nIf so, I can&#8217;t wait to tell my 4 year old son.<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nAndrew<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>To: Andrew<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I be slightly land locked here in the port of ..err.. Surrey. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about as authentic as Capn&#8217; Crimson here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weebls-stuff.com\/toons\/capn'+crimson\/\"><font color=\"#247cd4\">http:\/\/www.weebls-stuff.com\/toons\/capn%27+crimson\/<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>James.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now to sticks me printouts to me polycarbonate!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Stuck down\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/2006-10-17-stuck-down.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image117\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Stuck down\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/2006-10-17-stuck-down.thumbnail.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this pic the\u00a0polycarbonate still has the while film stuck to the back to stop it getting scratched.<\/p>\n<p>Next I sprayed a thin layer of white onto the decals to protect them. The white layer will later be the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Next step, wait for it to dry and\u00a0cut them out! Watch this space \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahoy me harties! I knows you be reading this now, but back when this all happened, it was around September 19th, which all good scurvey dogs knows, be national talk like a pirate day! I quote yee from the ships logs of the talk that led me to bountiful lands of polycarbonate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}