Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Using a commercially available hatch as an emergency esca...

[Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@Sun.COM>]

Hi,

I worked in a plastic fabrication shop in my starving student days. Everyone
got nervous when they had to cut lexan. Occasionally it would catch in 
a saw blade and kick back in shards. It is tougher then plexiglass but
brittle also.

Regards,
Ray


> From: DBACKIDS@aol.com
> Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 00:05:30 EDT
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Using a commercially available hatch as an 
emergency esca...
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
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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.