Places to buy acrylic?
- Thread starter Len
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Look in the yellow pages under - Plastic - Sheet, Rod, Tube, Film or something similar.
I found a company in my area that is called Acme Plastics. They carry a decent stock, but their prices are kind of high. If you live in a larger area, you may find better pricing due to the competition.
Fergy preaches that only domestic cast should be used in our applications. The only domestic products available are Spartech Polycast, Cyro Acrolite GP, and Atofina PlexiGlass-G.
Louey
I found a company in my area that is called Acme Plastics. They carry a decent stock, but their prices are kind of high. If you live in a larger area, you may find better pricing due to the competition.
Fergy preaches that only domestic cast should be used in our applications. The only domestic products available are Spartech Polycast, Cyro Acrolite GP, and Atofina PlexiGlass-G.
Louey
aawwe, how sweet 
Mayhaps another business to start up eh?
Freight does become an issue as it can negate any savings one may get from an online vendor. USPlastics does sell Cyro sheet but AFAIK their site does not say whether it's cast or extruded sheet. My *guess* is that it's extruded as most folks who sell cast tend to brag about it, and they do make this differentiation on tube. Their pricing is reasonable I suppose, they're making a good profit but then again they have to invest a bunch of $$ to get it so I guess it's deserved.
Most distributors (Laird, GE Polymershapes, Port, Etc.,) will ship via UPS.
Also, as insofar as tube goes, one of the problems comes down to breakage. In the larger diameter tubes (8"+), the odds of the tube coming in cracked run right around 50% due to boxes being improperly packaged (they don't come packaged well from the factory either) then dropped by the carrier, which simply makes it a PITA for the vendor selling it so they mark their prices way up to accommodate for this issue.
HTH,
James
Mayhaps another business to start up eh?
Freight does become an issue as it can negate any savings one may get from an online vendor. USPlastics does sell Cyro sheet but AFAIK their site does not say whether it's cast or extruded sheet. My *guess* is that it's extruded as most folks who sell cast tend to brag about it, and they do make this differentiation on tube. Their pricing is reasonable I suppose, they're making a good profit but then again they have to invest a bunch of $$ to get it so I guess it's deserved.
Most distributors (Laird, GE Polymershapes, Port, Etc.,) will ship via UPS.
Also, as insofar as tube goes, one of the problems comes down to breakage. In the larger diameter tubes (8"+), the odds of the tube coming in cracked run right around 50% due to boxes being improperly packaged (they don't come packaged well from the factory either) then dropped by the carrier, which simply makes it a PITA for the vendor selling it so they mark their prices way up to accommodate for this issue.
HTH,
James
Bah! - I don't see why you couldn't compete with online vendors.. - Heck, they gotta ship too right?
FWIW, I have a family member in the shipping biz. - Don't know if he gets many runs going up and down the coast, but he does spend time in Portland (more family there) and dips into SoCal every now and then from what I hear.. I'll check and see if he gets much for W coast runs and if he might be able to squeeze an extra pallet on. (Most of what he gets from Portland are quick dashes to Maryland though..)
Yeah buddy, free shipping for me!
FWIW, I have a family member in the shipping biz. - Don't know if he gets many runs going up and down the coast, but he does spend time in Portland (more family there) and dips into SoCal every now and then from what I hear.. I'll check and see if he gets much for W coast runs and if he might be able to squeeze an extra pallet on. (Most of what he gets from Portland are quick dashes to Maryland though..)
Yeah buddy, free shipping for me!
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