[General] Ordering Acrylic

[Joshua Pritt]

24 x 48 1/8 inch
 On Jun 13, 2012 8:07 PM, "Joshua Pritt" <ramgarden at gmail.com> wrote:

> Put me down for some of that battle bot plastic. I have no idea how much.
> How much do you think?
> On Jun 13, 2012 5:51 PM, "John Kelly" <candleknight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone!
>> 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).
>>
>> I'm ordering from: www.estreetplastics.com
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Check out the site to see what kind of materials they have that you might
>> want to get.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I'll personally be ordering various quantities of:
>> *Clear acrylic: 1/16", 1/8", 3/16", 1/4"
>> *Transparent red, blue, and green
>> *Florescent Green
>> *Mirrored 1/8"  (can be cut/engraved and combined with a light source to
>> make really neat optical projections )
>> *Polycarbonate: 1/16", 1/8", 1/4"
>> *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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -Candleknight
>> (John Kelly)
>>
>> P.S. Take note that they also sell the styrene sheets used for the vacuum
>> forming machine.
>>
>>
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