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Also, make sure to get POLYCARBONATE or LEXAN and not plexiglass.

Plexiglass will shatter or crack with any significant amount of impact. Polycarbonate on the other hand is designed with safety in mind, and is alot more impact resistant.

The FIRST fields used polycarbonate.
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