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Originally Posted by FenixPheonix
We'd love to use polycarbonate. Unfortunately, our manufacturing capabilities are somewhat limited in regards to plastic. As such, we're going to laser-cut several parts out of acrylic at a local machine shop, but they don't allow polycarbonate (pesky toxic fumes.) Hence the acrylic.
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If you have table saw, band saw, or scroll saw, you can cut polycarb. You can even do it with a hacksaw if you prefer not using power tools. A floor mounted belt or disk sander cleans up the edges nice, for a clean cut look.
We just got a major (more than 400 pounds of large scrap) polycarb donation, so we are building most of our robot out of it. It's easy to use, easy to cut, and strong in a planar dimension. To build the mount that our shooter is attaching to, all we have constructed so far is to make a 7 inch gusset for two sides, and an 1/8 inch aluminum tube going up, and you can push the robot around easily without it bending (yes, we are reinforcing it with more...)