Whats Easier To Cut

[customrig]

Acrylic or Lexon???

 

[Dissolved]

Acrylic should be easyier seeing its not made that good. but you wouldnt tell the difference if u were useing a jigsaw.

 

[Iron Hawk]

Agree with Dissolved.

If you are using a powered saw you shouldnt see a difference. If you are scratching away at it with a tooth pick you will probably want to go with Acrylic.

if you are making a case out of it use Lexon because it will be a little more durable. Acrylic should be fine for windows though.

 

[Leeua]

does anyone know how difficult it is to cut lucite?? This material is stronger than glass (saw it at home depot). Does any here have experience cutting this material?

 

[KingB]

Just cut a piece last night. It wasn't too bad either. Make sure you score the piece really well if you are going to use the score and snap method of cutting.

I also found that a jig saw worked well too. I would recomend that you use a fine toothed blade and a variable speed saw. If you get the blade moving too fast, the lucite will start to melt. ( i tested a scrap peice to see how easy it is to melt and it didn't take all that much).

 

[BinarySuperman]

i swear no joke i couldn't even crack my 12x4 piece of lexan, i cant believe its so tuff, its rubber glass btw do jigsaws cut lexan well??

 

[Iron Hawk]

i swear no joke i couldn't even crack my 12x4 piece of lexan, i cant believe its so tuff, its rubber glass btw do jigsaws cut lexan well??

I believe so, but I have never done it myself. Keep the speeds down to prevent melting.

 

[Leeua]

what does it mean when you "score" it?? Can you also explain the score and snap trick?

 

[Sony]

i swear no joke i couldn't even crack my 12x4 piece of lexan, i cant believe its so tuff, its rubber glass btw do jigsaws cut lexan well??

I do believe Lexan over 1 inch thick is qualified to be "bulletproof" and can withstand a magnum from point blank range. I'm not sure though don't quote me on that.

 

[Robbiem01]

score & snap:

You run a knife over the path you want the glass / plexiglass or whatever to break in (must be straight line.) Go over it many times (10 or so for plexi) then set the "scorred" part on the edge of a table, workbench or whatever then slowly push the part thats not on the table down. Soon it will just snap (hopefully along the line you scorred.) This works b/c the part you scorred is weaker then any other spot so if it has to break somewhere it will be there. Hope this helps.

 

[CrystalMethod]

I do believe Lexan over 1 inch thick is qualified to be "bulletproof" and can withstand a magnum from point blank range. I'm not sure though don't quote me on that.

That's about right. Althougth I think it's less than 1 inch. My father was showing us the propreties of lexan a few years back and threw a 3mm thick piece on the ground, gave my brother a pick-axe, and told him "put a hole in it...". My brother is 6'2" , 230Lbs. Not a small guy. It took him 20 mins of pounding to break through the stuff. It does however strech like saran-wrap when you hit it with a pick-axe.

 

[knight1976]

LOL i can actually get a visual of you and your Dad sitting there drinking a cold one while your brother tires himself out trying to break this lexan!!! LOL Did you at least like offer him a beer too for swinign the axe?

 

[Tbird man]

It dosent streach when you shoot it beacuse of the high veloicty of the projectile. lexan is one of the strongest transparent materals in the world. plexi is quite a bit weaker. but also cheaper. as to cutting plexi is easier to cut by scoring but lexan is not too bad with proper tools