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    Posted: 30 Jan 13 at 7:29am
I bought polycarbonate sheet off eBay.
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Never had a boat with flaps but.....I,d use polycarbonate and cut with a fret saw. Polycarb will last much longer. The local sign writers/engravers should have some.


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Buy the material from P&B or similar and it's cutable.  I used both scissors and a scalpel. 
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Did some gelcoating today as discussed in other thread. Whilst doing it I snapped my transom flaps which were made out of clear acrylic, about 2 mm thick.
 
Went to Wickes today to buy a sheet and have just spent the last 2 hours trying to cut the flaps out but failing. Using just a stanley knife was impossible (it's got curves), jigsaw split it, saw was the same. I had most luck heating a knife up repeatedly with a blow torch, but split them when trying to take out of the sheet.
 
So how do people cut their transom flaps?
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