Acrylic finished plastics have outstanding resistance to long-term exposure to sunlight and weathering. It has excellent optical properties and is more resistant to impact than glass. In addition, acrylic has low water absorption, good electrical resistivity, and fair tensile strength.Applications are infinite, including art installations, outdoor signs, glazing, aircraft canopies, skylights, auto tail-lights, dials, buttons, lighting applications, knobs, and machine covers. Interstate Plastics offers a wide variety of Acrylic plastics to fit your specific application. Acrylic is often preferred because of its moderate properties, easy handling and processing, and low cost, but behaves in a brittle manner when loaded, especially under an impact force. Transmits up to 92% of visible light (3 mm thickness), and gives a reflection of about 4% from each of its surfaces on account of its refractive index. It has a density of 1.17-1.20 g/cm3, which is less than half that of glass. It also has good impact strength, higher than both glass and polystyrene.
O**E
WONDERFUL! PERFECT for craft projects that need perfect clarity and protection!!
I purchased an old typesetting drawer from an antique shop, with the idea that I'd be able to use it for shelving for my huge collection of lampwork beads, sculptures and marbles. Unfortunately, with it open, people kept trying to touch them, and broke several expensive pieces, so I needed a solution.I bought a sheet of this Acrylic clear, because I needed a flexible (but not too flexible) cover, that could easily be removed to add/remove pieces. So I bought a package of mirror mounting acrylic glass clips. I screwed in 4 clips at the top of the drawer, and 4 at the bottom, peeled the plastic protectors off both sides of the acrylic, and slid it in.... and THIS is what it looks like. PERFECT!!! YAYYYYY!!!!This is not thick acrylic, it's 1/16th thick, which is perfect for crystal clarity, but still a little bit bendable. The prices are great, the cuts are accurate, and as you can see by the photo, PERFECT for crafting needs!!! I'm soooo happy with this!!That said, it's probably easily scratched, so best is for surfaces that don't get abrasion.That said, I bought a 2nd piece from them to use for decoupage on a table top. I'm going to decoupage the reverse side, then cover a table indent with it. I DO expect scratches, it's acrylic, but that's ok because it's a porch set. If it turns out well, I will add the photo. I mention this because their 'standard' sizes were not the right dimensions. I needed an 18" x 18" square. I ordered the 24" x 18" and requested they cut it. They cut it for me perfectly, at no extra charge. I'm not sure if they will always do free cutting, as they get more business, but can't hurt to ask. Their shipping took less than a week.If the table turns out well and the scratching is acceptable, I may order another piece to try my own doggy door protector. VERY happy with them!!! If you think my review helped, will you check 'helpful'? It makes me feel like I'm, well, being helpful, and encourages me to write more reviews:).
S**Y
Super happy
I was super happy with the outcome of buying this product.I accidentally broke the glass on a photo frame at a friends house, offered to replace it, and was shocked at the price at Michael's Art Supply, which has an in-house picture framing department. Was $46 to replace the glass sheet on a 14.25" x 15" frame.Had a great experience from buying the replacement plexiglass sheet from this vendor (decided better not to replace with a thin sheet of glass, since it is so easily shattered). I was confused about how to get the custom sizing completed until I talked with Andrew at the seller's phone number. He was patient and thorough with me. I paid an extra $3 to have the sheet cut to custom size. The whole thing cost me $17 and was a perfect solution. The acrylic sheet was spectacular and the cut was precise (even though they make you sign a waiver in case it isn't perfect). Super easy to replace and so much less expensive than a relatively inexpensive alternative. Yay!!!!!!!!!
N**K
Product as expected 5/5
want to say "thanks" for packing this large and thin sheet of plexiglass so well. Packaging resisted all bending (something that happened in transit and the cardboard yielded just slightly, which had me worried initially) and the result is excellent.
A**N
Perfect for a skylight cover
Not too thick, flexible, perfect and unmarked. Blue film helps prevent scratches when working with it, peels off easily. Perfect size for my skylight and fits snug with the weatherstripping and frame I made.
B**M
Cut correctly
Correct size, packaged well.
P**C
Perfect size and thickness
Perfect size and thickness
K**Z
Fragile!
I thought plexiglass wasn't supposed to break, but this stuff is so fragile! One of the sheets slipped out of my hands, fell to the floor and broke in half. Total waste of money!
R**G
Excellent customer service
Acrylic sheet cut to exact specifications. Quick shipping. Excellent experience!
Trustpilot
1 month ago
3 weeks ago