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Old May 12, 2007 | 03:32 PM
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Default headlight lens - what type of plastic?
as the title states, what kind of plastic does the conventional headlight use? acrylic? carbonate?

reason being, i want to make one off headlights in this fashion:
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Old May 12, 2007 | 04:04 PM
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The headlights that our cars use is made out of lexan. I don't know about other cars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexan
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Old May 12, 2007 | 05:48 PM
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ah.. damn. so it is carbonate plastic. those things are a ***** to drill into. :|

thanks for the info!
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