<p>Put me down for some of that battle bot plastic. I have no idea how much. How much do you think?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 13, 2012 5:51 PM, "John Kelly" <<a href="mailto:candleknight@gmail.com">candleknight@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>
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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.<br><br>
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