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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When I ran the combat robot competitions here in Huntsville, I found a local plastics supplier that had good lexan prices. It was a while ago so I don’t remember the name of the company - consider looking around locally to save on shipping.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Rick<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> general-bounces@lists.makerslocal.org [mailto:general-bounces@lists.makerslocal.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Kelly<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> general@lists.makerslocal.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [General] Ordering Acrylic<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi everyone!<br>I'm getting ready to order a crap ton of acrylic (Plexiglass) and polycarbonate (Lexan) soon. It's much cheaper both in materials cost and in shipping to order a bunch at a time, so I though I'd ask if anybody else wants to add to the order and/or split a large sheet. Ordering this way will be about 30-40% cheaper than buying at Lowes/Home Depot (factoring in shipping costs, taxes, discounts).<br><br>I'm ordering from: <a href="http://www.estreetplastics.com" target="_blank">www.estreetplastics.com</a><br><br>This stuff is super useful, and can be used to make robot parts, gears, project enclosures, mechanical mechanisms, templates for moulds, jigs for other projects, and about a 100 billion other things.<br><br>Check out the site to see what kind of materials they have that you might want to get.<br><br>Cutting it up into 8" x 12" pieces makes it fit really nicely into the laser cutter, so I'll mostly be ordering 24" x 48" sheets so that I can cut them into 12 nice even pieces for the laser cutter. <br><br>I'll personally be ordering various quantities of:<br>*Clear acrylic: 1/16", 1/8", 3/16", 1/4"<br>*Transparent red, blue, and green<br>*Florescent Green<br>*Mirrored 1/8" (can be cut/engraved and combined with a light source to make really neat optical projections )<br>*Polycarbonate: 1/16", 1/8", 1/4"<br>*And one 18" X 36" piece of 1/2" polycarbonate to cut in half to use as the door to the freeze dryer vacuum chamber<br><br>Since it's cheaper to order in bulk, I'll be ordering more than I need right now. If anyone would like to split a piece let me know. Also let me know if you'd like to add something of your own to the order to save on shipping.<br><br>-Candleknight<br>(John Kelly)<br><br>P.S. Take note that they also sell the styrene sheets used for the vacuum forming machine.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>