justin_o_guy2
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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Anybody can cut a screen down. Get some poster board & pencil & string & lay out the shape you want. A pin thru the poster into a flat piece of wood, tied to a pencil = ability to draw a radius. PIns equally spaced on each outer third higher than the central pin equals a tighter radius at the upper edges. Tape the desired design on & cut far enough from the line so you can finish & radius the edge. Keep the plastic cool with a water spray so it doesnt heat weld itself back together if necessary. Do a test cut up high, away from the edge you really want, lay tape on it &practice. The "foot" of a jigsaw will scratch it up, so, study & experiment on the part you know you want to hack off before you try to make the cut that counts. YOull be wanting someone there to help hold things, soft rags to protect your "good part", if you have clamps, youre way ahead. If you have a good, heavy saw horse & a coupla good clamps you could put rags on the saw horse & rags on the shield & lay it on the sawhorse with the part to cut off hanging off, lay a 2X4 on it & clamp that down tite to the sawhorse, pinching the shield tight. The paper outline should protect the shield from the jigsaw foot vibrating, some masking tape on that cant hurt. Dont decide you "Cant",, if you decide you cant, youll be right, If ya screw it up, youll learn a lot.
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