crazykart
Crazy member
Are you speaking from actual experience, or spouting off an opinion? When it comes to mine or someone else's safety, I refuse to recommend something dangerous based on price. Any trip to the ER will cost several times over the price difference from halfit,versus doing it right.
Anyone else want to claim that cheap at the cost of safety is the way to go?
My name won't be attached to it.
Besides my horrible spelling thanks to my phone, I am talking from professional experience. Since I do work with both plexiglass, and lexan every day. plexiglass will shatter...so will lexan. Both shattering points are dependent on many factors. I can tell you that a 1/2" thick sheet of plexiglass can take an extreme amount of force to shatter. Not just "smash it with a hammer" amount either, it's more like "shooting a baseball at hundreds of miles per hour" amount of force.
That's one of the reasons it's used in aerospace technology, including jet cockpits/windows, and helicopter canopies. I highly doubt anything that your going to come across on a well designed (and domed! ) nose piece or body for a go kart is going to make it into a shard shooting deathtrap. I said I doubt, not that it's not possible. It's also possible with lexan! O gasp o gasp what shall we do to save us from these shards?!
In all seriousness though a properly thick, possibly domed, and isolated from shock piece of plexiglass will hold up fine, and yes for around 1/3 of the price of lexan, which also has the possibility of shattering. If you're extremely concerned about the albeit slight possibility of it shattering then there is this great film that you can apply that will help combat that possibility. It's pretty cheap too, and you can pick up a form of it (window tint) at most big stores/auto stores. Or you can order the actual film online and apply it.
Plexiglas is used in many areas in the public, private, and military sectors in situations where it is meant to hold up in high impact situations. No its not quite as good as lexan, but it has its many merits, and will hold up.
Idk about you but I've never heard of a pilot dieing from a piece of shattered plexi from a bird flying into it at a force of hundreds of miles per hour. The way you talk you make it seem like it would be a daily, if not hourly occurrence.
So now about that whole.spouting off opinions vd experience thing...
Just my 2 cents on the matter.