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Re: Is your frame tough enough for FIRST?
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Originally Posted by artdutra04
Was the "plexi" acrylic or polycabonate (Lexan)?
The reason I ask is that while they look similar, acrylic can shatter like glass, whereas polycarbonate is much stronger and normally it should never shatter (unless you spill Loctite on it). The only "downside" to polycarbonate is that it is more expensive than acrylic.
On both the teams that I mentor, acrylic is almost never used on a FIRST robot with only a few very limited exceptions, as polycarbonate is the preferred "plexi" material. |
I'm pretty sure it was polycarbonate but i'm not sure. It didn't shatter exactly but it cracked apart.
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