Lostariel Telrunya
08-05-2014, 06:18 PM
Hey! So, I've probably posted four threads and it's only the middle of the afternoon for me, but I had a pretty weird run-in. So, last year, my art teacher had pieces of polycarbonate and plexiglass in the art room, and, long story short, I asked him if I could take some, and he let me. I was going to use it for a fluke in my tail. I grabbed what I thought was a good sized piece of lexan(it had 'Lexan' on it in big letters and had 'polycarbonate' in smaller letters), but when I tested the flexibility of it in my bathtub, it shattered like plexiglass. Okay, fastforward to this afternoon, and I was out getting groceries when I see my art teacher in the lineup! I say hey, he says hey, all that jazz, and then he remembered that I had taken some lexan/plexiglass during the year. Turns out, he lives about a block away, and told me he had some more left over from the end of the year that I could take if I wanted it. <note> Now is about the time when I clarify that he is not a creep that just wanted me to go to his house so he could kidnap me or something. He knows my dad, and has been at our house as well</note>. So, he took all of the plexiglass and lexan that he had and brought it over to my backyard, and I put it in my furnace room.
Now I have the task of figuring out which is polycarbonate and which is plexiglass. Quite frankly, I can use both of them, the plexiglass for my art, and the polycarbonate for a new fluke. Right now I have a giant pile of clear plastic-looking stuff and I don't know how to use it!
I found a sheet that was big enough for a new fluke, and the internet said to whack it with a hammer, and if it shatters, it's polycarbonate. I whacked it, and it didn't break, and I can bend it pretty much into a tube and it won't break. I just don't want to make a fluke, go swimming in it, and have it shatter in the water.
Does anyone know how to tell the difference between the two?
P.S.
It doesn't matter if the plexiglass breaks, I use it for a sort-of stained glass project type thing, and I will break it anyway.
Ooh! And, on a side-note, I was going to paint the polycarbonate for the fluke, for an effect at the end of the tail. Can I use acrylic paint, or no???
Now I have the task of figuring out which is polycarbonate and which is plexiglass. Quite frankly, I can use both of them, the plexiglass for my art, and the polycarbonate for a new fluke. Right now I have a giant pile of clear plastic-looking stuff and I don't know how to use it!
I found a sheet that was big enough for a new fluke, and the internet said to whack it with a hammer, and if it shatters, it's polycarbonate. I whacked it, and it didn't break, and I can bend it pretty much into a tube and it won't break. I just don't want to make a fluke, go swimming in it, and have it shatter in the water.
Does anyone know how to tell the difference between the two?
P.S.
It doesn't matter if the plexiglass breaks, I use it for a sort-of stained glass project type thing, and I will break it anyway.
Ooh! And, on a side-note, I was going to paint the polycarbonate for the fluke, for an effect at the end of the tail. Can I use acrylic paint, or no???