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Re: Working with Lexan
Many teams will not have access to these methods, but:
Lexan (polycarbonate) is easily cut using a water-jet. Plexiglas (acrylic) will probably shatter if you try to water-jet it.
Conversely, Plexiglas (acrylic) is easy to laser-cut, although it does create a stink. Lexan (polycarbonate) should not be laser-cut because its fumes are toxic.
My team has one sponsor with a water-jet machine and another with a laser-cutting machine. We found out about the differences above through some trial and error.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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