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Originally Posted by Francis-134
While I'm not an expert on plastics, I have found that the only advantage to plexi over Lexan is cost (a cursory inspection of Wikipedia confirms this). Plexi tends to cost much less than Lexan.
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Yeah my team tried weighing this benifit against the disadvantages in the 2007 build season. we needed 3 large shields for our robot sides, so we decided that we would go with 1/8" Acrylic to make them for cost benifits. Luckily we were able to fix this mistake before ship, when the shields started cracking while simply practicing! We replaced them with 1/8" Lexan, and we never had a problem durring the season.
Our team has a motto... although it is not true, it is still funny... "Lexan NEVER breaks!"