RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Using a commercially available hatch as anemergency esca...

[ronleonard <ronleonard@shaw.ca>]

Use a skill saw or table saw with a saw blade made for cutting plywood
and you will have no problem...and don't cut fast.
Ron


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Quick note on using Lexan: If you plan on cutting it yourself, be
careful, 
for it shards like a glass would, not melts right through like plexi
would. 
(I built a 5" x 9" x 3' long "wet wind tunnel" (a wind tunnel, with
water 
instead of air), and found out that plexi, when cut fast, practically
melts 
itself back together, while lexan will shard off unless it is covered or

taped. It was a fun project, too) Ok, I went off-track, but you got the 
point.