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Re: Where do your teams purchase your polycarbonate?

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Originally Posted by stinglikeabee View Post
You can look into Duraplex. It is an inexpensive impact-resistant acrylic alternative to Lexan/polycarbonate. It is available at Lowe's in 24"x48"x0.080" sheets for about $26.
I am not a chemist, so on a scale of plexiglass to polycarbonate, how impact resistant is duraplex actually? I'm sure there are games they can play with the chemistry, but is it anywhere close to polycarbonate level durability?

A google search seems to show people on the internet are generally not enthusiastic about its impact resistance relative to polycarb.
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