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Old 04-05-2013, 07:03 PM   #270 (permalink)
RedDevil
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I just wonder what happens if you hit a reindeer.
I've been to Finland and almost got stampeded by a herd of those, luckily I had already slowed down a lot so it was a miss. Just half a kilometer after that the first and only 'Beware of reindeer' sign I've seen those 2 weeks.
2 mm seems very thin. The hardware stores over here don't sell it that thin. A 4 mm PC windscreen of about 1 square meter would weigh just under 5 kilo, wouldn't skip safety for a few kilos less than that.
I've seen at least 500 'Beware of moose' signs and 0 moose. You'd need at least 1 cm of thickness for those, I guess.

Getting the PC to bend in shape, that's another story. You'd need to cure it at almost 200 C. You need a really big oven.
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