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Let's just say, there is a really good reason you use polycarbonate and not acrylic on robots.
We used some acrylic on one side of our mast in 2005 until we got lexan ready. Davis rolls around, and a team was particularly obnoxious in defending us in a couple of rounds (until we started lifting them by way of a tetra, then let them escape--but I digress). One round, they went up our (1/4"+ lexan) defensive wedges and hit the acrylic. The acrylic broke and we switched to lexan as soon as we could. Acrylic isn't a good idea if there's any chance it'll get hit with even moderate force. I don't think we've used acrylic since.
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