pic: Team 2614's Cracked Plexi

[Tom I]

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.

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!"

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by SlaminSwimster

Yeah we definitely learned our lesson about plexi. But a broken shield in exchange for winning the Pittsburgh Regional- totally worth it!!!!

Congrats on that btw. highly impressive for a rookie team to win a regional.Come to the NJ regional next year

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

Congrats on that btw. highly impressive for a rookie team to win a regional.Come to the NJ regional next year

Yes it is, congrats again from 1323

[SlaminSwimster]

Thanks 4 the congrats guys!!!

[Cuog]

We also played a fun prank on some of the freshmen on my team. I brought out two pieces of clear plastic, handed one to them and told them to try and break it, I took the other and bent and snapped it. They were all afraid of me for a little while till someone explained the different between the piece I gave them(lexan) and the piece I had(acrylic)