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Polycarbonate=Lexan
Posted by Matt Leese at 03/13/2001 9:29 AM EST
Other on team #73, Tigerbolt, from Edison Technical HS and Alstom & Fiber Technologies & RIT.
In Reply to: Re: Lexan, the wonder material (hopefully u mean polycarbona
Posted by Travis Covington on 03/13/2001 2:58 AM EST:
No, Lexan is most definately polycarbonate with the exact same physical properties. This is from GE's web site: "LEXAN sheet, manufactured from GE Plastic's proven LEXAN polycarbonate resin". And even if your parts are well designed, polycarbonate can still break. It is not indistructable eventhough it sometimes seems as if it is. Rounding corners, etc. just makes a stronger end product. All polycarbonate is breakable given enough stressors in the right directions. I've even seen 1/16" polycarbonate (which you would assume would just bend a whole lot) break after a lot of force (okay, someone was hitting it repeatedly with a hammer).
Matt
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