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General => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: babybear on December 28, 2015, 05:14:14 AM

Title: Corrugated Plastic Sheets
Post by: babybear on December 28, 2015, 05:14:14 AM

Other than HolidayCoro has anyone made 12 x 12 Corrugated Plastic boxes , lit them up with RGB. It looks like my Home dumpster has 4mm 48 x 96 sheets for 15 bucks each. They have white in stock or would I need clear.  The cutter I also can get off of Amazon for another 15. Im thinking I can get 6 boxes per sheet.  with plywood bottoms. Then 8 or 16 RGB 3 led tall per box in a circle.  A 200 pack and a 36 channel DMX RGB controller would do a total of 12 boxes. Then stack and arrange them around my mega tree. I thinking total cost of 175. 

Title: Re: Corrugated Plastic Sheets
Post by: MrChristmas2000 on December 28, 2015, 05:22:16 AM

Sounds like a plan to me. I have some packages around my Santa Scene that I may end up replacing with something like that because they have become very faded.

If it does not work you can always re-purpose the lights for something else.

Title: Re: Corrugated Plastic Sheets
Post by: Gilrock on December 28, 2015, 10:24:07 AM

It should be free if its in the dumpster.

Title: Re: Corrugated Plastic Sheets
Post by: babybear on December 28, 2015, 02:49:03 PM

instead of the Corrugated Plastic has anyone used glass. I work in a window and door shop as an engineer Walking in the shop I see obscure glass. Maybe 4 sides and top then silicone the corners together. Ill give it a try and make one tonight. any good Ill post a pic.   

Title: Re: Corrugated Plastic Sheets
Post by: MrChristmas2000 on December 28, 2015, 03:01:10 PM

i would be afraid of glass. If something falls or someone throws something at it you would end up with glass everwhere.

Title: Re: Corrugated Plastic Sheets
Post by: Gilrock on December 28, 2015, 03:27:56 PM

I've seen a lot of present box designs from Coro that didn't come from Holiday Coro.  Just checkout the Coro subforum on the auschristmaslighting forum.

Title: Corrugated Plastic Sheets
Post by: logandc99 on December 28, 2015, 03:49:07 PM

I just did mine with white corflute for the sides and strips of black corflute stuck on the look like ribbon on them. One has left over strip and the others left over nodes). 
(They are at the base of the megatree in the pic).
(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/12/28/eb635d9cfe9f7466a9aae9f21204e735.jpg)


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Title: Re: Corrugated Plastic Sheets
Post by: babybear on December 28, 2015, 04:52:25 PM

I made one quick out of obscure glass the light was spotty as it was not defused in the box. Where the white of the coro bounces the light all over and look like a nice glow. Just trying to keep the cost down as low as I can.

Title: Re: Corrugated Plastic Sheets
Post by: flyinverted on December 28, 2015, 05:15:57 PM

There will be plenty of free coroplast chunks out soon that say VOTE FOR ME. After election day, take as many as you want.