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Re: lexan windshield

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Subject: Re: lexan windshield
From: John Szalay <john.szalay@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 21:09:39 -0400
At 08:34 PM 4/7/03 -0700, you wrote:
>    List, Does anyone have a source for lexan windshields? Back windows
>also for that matter. Someone once told me how to heat and bend lexan
>but that was long ago.
>    Doug Odom in big ditch with a cracked windshield
>
>///


 FWIW:
  Lexan does NOT like high heats, the same heat that we used for 
plexiglas will blister and cloud/fog Lexan.
when we worked Lexan , we usually only heated BOTH sides of the 
sheet to only 120 degrees F and then move the part to a form or
pan brake and bent at that temp.
Lexan will bend cold, BUT it takes a slight overbend to allow
for springback, and it takes more pressure to that.

a slight temp increase will allow easy bending and less springback.
too much heat, and blisters and clouding/fog is a given..




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