How to get rid of acrylic?

Dou you have a whole saw or grinder to cut around it?

 

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I could probably cut around it, but I think the next step will be running it over.

 

Honestly, the running over seems like a good idea. Unless you cut a tire. I would opt for the localized sledge hammer treatment. Localized hits with a 12 pnd sledge will do a lot of damage.
Just my 2 cents.

 

You'd have to break it into pieces, have a tight fire such as in a "rocket stove" type setup prob built with bricks, steel mesh above the flames, and then it would all melt down into the fire while leaving the coins further up .. a tad charred though.
Or it might not work at all.

that's one perplexing problem. It's like those coins in those toilet lids/seats. And people who make entire floors out of coins using acrylic.

yikes.

 

You could have driven a truck over a panel lying flat on an evenly distribution surface, as compacted soil.

I suggest you remove 2 blocks from each side of support system which will reduce the horizontal vector, after sawing each length side at the middle (~1 inch in from panel edge on each side).

Sawing the side frame on the coin vision side at the length center where you've made the 1 inch cuts will help reduce frame strength.

The panel needs to be turned over so the coins are facing down when applying the force to the diagonal surface.

I apologize for what appears to be my poor suggestion.

THE "BREAKING FORCE" MUST BE APPLIED AT THE PANEL CENTER WHEN IT IS ANGLED!!

A simple/safe solution is to use a 1 block height support for the diagonal panel, and drive over with a tire at the length center which should be, if panel is installed as suggested, having a 1" gap under the believed ~32 inch long panel.

Rather be safe than sorry, as we're talking a considerable amount of energy. Please apply the OSHA safety suggestion.

JMHO

 

Flip it over so the coins face down.
Run it thru a planer a few times removing a decent amount of the wooden structural support. Do it enough times without the planer blades going into the acrylic, only the wood.

This will give you a good starting point to get to work on the acrylic.

 

Let us know what you're hourly rate ends up being.

Just sounds like a huge hassle, especially if you you have trouble separating the acrylic from the coin surfaces. Also, I think if you try heating the mess, you're just going to end up with organic residue stuck to the coins (just speculation).

Best of luck. Looks like you'll need it

 

I get it. At this point it becomes a mission and the coins WILL be removed from the acrylic……. I will likely meet my maker when someone suggests a difficult task that I can’t possibly accomplish….. “Oh yeah, watch” will likely be my famous last words!

 

I definitely underestimated the amount of force that would’ve been needed to break the boards. I assumed that after 10-15 bricks, that I would have achieved the amount of force needed. The board is indeed angled, it just doesn’t show that way.

Brilliant idea. I had access to a planar before I moved, but now I do not. So I’ll have to go another route.

100% this. These coins are coming out one way or another, haha!

 

Having a little fun with the efforts. Progress!

 

And how much was that tire again?

 

'bout $90 .. hopefully with a warranty.

I thought he had a Monster Truck with those Monster Truck tires !!

 

Sigh.....

 

I read somewhere if you freeze it ( in a deep freezer for a few days) the acrylic becomes very brittle.
Try it with a small section, let us know the results.

 

If the tire was properly inflated as it appears, I would bet the tire hadn't been damaged! Is that correct?

 

I am picturing your wife laughing her a$$ off. watching thru the front window.

 

I had a similar situation with a coffee table shadow box that had agates in it. What some have mentioned already in this thread will work, but it's dangerous. Put on plenty of PPE and start whacking the heck out of it with a hammer.

 

I'd forgotten, but I believe that's what I did when I was experimenting -- freeze, then smash. Again, you get dangerously sharp shrapnel, and I got bent coins.