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Originally Posted by toramo
Also, we want to simulate the plexiglass on the driver's station but actual plexiglass seems prohibitively expensive. What are your plans there?
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You don't want Plexiglass anyway -- it's not hard to shatter it with a sharp impact. The material used for the Alliance Station "glass" is polycarbonate (e.g. Lexan), not acrylic. It's used as bulletproof glass.
Polycarbonate is even more expensive than acrylic, so you probably don't want it ether. Our old practice field ten years ago used something I think is called hardware cloth. It was a metal mesh with wide square openings, on the order of 3/4". I don't recall whether it was welded at the intersections or not.