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ClearGear

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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:49 pm

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Hello,
I would like to build a display case 8' high by 2' wide with shelves, all using 6mm, .236” clear acrylic. All joints would be glued together,acrylic to acrylic. I understand that acrylic expands and contracts, would a unit of this construction expand/contract to a point that it would fracture apart? The unit would be at room temperature, but slightly colder during transport to the installation site.
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:18 pm

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I doubt if it would expand that much that it will fracture apart, especially as all the acrylic will expand/contract at the same rate.

You will have to watch out for it bowing though with it being so long.

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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:01 pm

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By having 7 shelves one foot apart inside the frame, wouldn’t this prevent the unit from bowing?

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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:14 pm

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ClearGear wrote:

By having 7 shelves one foot apart inside the frame, wouldn’t this prevent the unit from bowing?

Yes, sorry my fault.

I was thinking of 8' feet long and 2' feet high.

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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:39 pm

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Great! good to hear, thanks!

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6mm sounds a bit on the thin side.

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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:40 am

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Why would you say?

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