I am planning on buying some lexan glass for my car I was wondering if anyone on here was going to get some also? Grimmspeed I know you stated an interest i this. -Chris
Lexan (LEXAN) is a registered trademark for SABIC Innovative Plastics' (formerly General Electric Plastics) brand of highly durable polycarbonate resin thermoplastic intended to replace glass where the need for strength justifies its higher cost. It is a polycarbonate polymer produced by reacting Bisphenol A with carbonyl chloride, also known as phosgene. Lexan is the brand name for polycarbonate sheet in thicknesses from 0.75 mm (0.03 in) to 12 mm (0.48 in). Applications are mainly in three domains — building (glazing and domes), industry (machine protection and fabricated parts) and communication and signage.
Lexan is a name brand of polycarbonate used for everything from safety glasses to CD's and everything else. Just keep in mind that Lexan scratches very easily unless it has a thin layer of actual glass on it, which is available. Race cars need not apply.
i've been thinking about just making my own pc windows. the glass transition temp on pc isn't ridiculously high so heat forming them wouldn't be too hard. pc also machines well so cutting them would be simple
If it's that bendable, one could make a form/mold out of a real piece of glass and stuff that's in the ballpark.
I think laying a sheet of PC over a normal glass window and then using a heat gun to bring it up to the glass transition temp and letting it droop to the curve of the window would work well if you could keep it from getting too hot. maintaining a temp right at Tg is probably the hard part
Lay something on the glass to keep it from sticking? The rear window wouldn't be a huge deal since you could make up for variances with a little more urethane. Door glass would be tough if you still wanted it to move.I'll stick with a glass laminated windshield just for the pure fact that glass is very strong and is an integral part of the engineers' design of the structure, unless I had a nice cage.
glad you guys are interested in this as well as we will be doing this soon. I actually found a good company(hopefully) today. http://www.percyshp.com/ I may be talking with them about sponsoring but i could also talk tothem about doing a group buy with us.
If people give me some sizes of what they realistically want I can talk to some people. Are people planning on cutting it themselves? Just let me know as soon as you can.
