Re: Cutting Lexan
 

Sorry, I was thinking of acrylic and the directions I read recently on one of those cutters. Polycarb is indeed tougher. That I would not hesitate to cut with most any sharp sawblade, just don't feed it too fast or hard. And it doesn't like to be fed through a very fine jigsaw...it tends to heat up and weld itself back together. Very annoying!

Re: Cutting Lexan
 

When is comes to lexan the standard blade thatc omes with the table saw is perfectly fine to use however make sure you compensate for the 1/8th inch cutting path is creates. For acrylic i have found that a diamond blade does a pretty good job, however just to be safe you have to put tape on the acrylic while you are cutting it, 3M painters tape is teh best for this. Again when cuttign with the diamond blae make sure your compensate 1/8th of an inch for the cuttign path

Re: Cutting Lexan
 

I just ran across this Acrylic Sheet Fabrication Manual that has a lot of good info on cutting and machining Plexiglas/Acrylic.

Re: Cutting Lexan
 

I know that a lot of teams may not have this luxury, but just about all our lexan was laser-cut. :cool:

Re: Cutting Lexan
 

The size of the pieces you are cutting is limited by the size of the bed. If you were cutting a piece over three feet long you would have trouble. But I must agree, for small pieces or small parts you can't beat the 0.03" wide cutting path. Lucky guys!!! :p