How do you make a marquee fit?

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With conversions, sometimes the marquee doesn't fit the cabinet it's in. What do you do about that? I've never tried cutting one. Has anyone had luck with that? I recently got a 1943 that's in a Frogger cab. It's in terrible shape and I need to replace it. Someone chipped pieces off until it fit, so not only is it faded, but its broken. Anyone know where I can get a 1943 marquee? :)
 
The cleanest way is to use a router with a bottom bearing flush trim bit. Obviously you first need to buy an original plexi marquee that is larger than the marquee area of the cabinet you're trying to convert. You clamp the marquee between two solid pieces of wood. You leave the edge you want to cut off stick out beyond the edges of the two pieces of wood (which should be parallel). You then set a fence across the top piece of wood and Clamp it down. Make sure you clamp from the top of your fence to the bottom of the bottom piece of wood. That holds everything together in a big sandwich. Then take your router, set the base on the top piece of wood, the edge of it against the fence, and zip off the offending Marquee edge. You do this on two sides or four sides or whatever you need.
 
If you order a 1943 marquee, just order a translite and get it printed to the correct size and then find a hardware store that cuts Plexi. They will cut the Plexi to the exact size you need and you can put the translite behind the Plexi
 
I use my table saw all the time to cut plexi. just have to have a 60 tooth or higher count blade. works like butter. i even cut laminate.
 
I use my table saw all the time to cut plexi. just have to have a 60 tooth or higher count blade. works like butter. i even cut laminate.

+1 on the table saw.

I've also just scored with a razor blade and snapped the excess off, I line up the score line with the edge of a table and clamp it down with a piece of wood on top along the score line then give it a whack, breaks clean off. I use a t square and clamp it down in order to make a clean score line.
 
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