Hi Max –



I prefer glass doors or fronts these days for my reptile cages. But once upon a time, back when the very first Neodesha Plastics cages came out, the tracks for the acrylic doors were WAY undersized and the fronts wouldn’t slide. Unfortunately, I had volunteered to make a bulk purchase for members of the Chicago Herpetological Society and had all these damn unusable cages that people were expecting to receive. We ended up having to router down the edges of the acrylic to get them to work. I decided to buy my next batch of cages minus the standard acrylic and purchase Lucite SAR locally. Twenty years later those SAR sheets look WAY better than the standard acrylic. I’m not saying you can’t abrade the finish; you can. But unless an animal plastered urates against the sliding door, I used a sponge, not a scrubber, on it and they held their transparency well. SAR = super abrasion resistance. I’m sure there’s a cheaper generic equivalent to the Lucite now.



-Joan





>>Which is better? Can you make pre-drilled holes around the edges of either? Does Lexan scratch easy? This is for the front window of the cage, the doors are on top. Any advise would be helpful.

>>Thanks,

>>Max

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• Lexan vs. Plexiglass - Chamax, Thu May 15 02:46:31 2003
• RE: Lexan vs. Plexiglass - chris_harper2, Thu May 15 07:38:45 2003
• Another possibility: Lucite SAR - jfmoore, Thu May 15 17:33:27 2003
• RE: Another possibility: Lucite SAR - WhisQuila, Tue Aug 12 19:59:33 2003
• RE: Another possibility: Lucite SAR - jfmoore, Wed Aug 13 01:24:33 2003