Tinted Lexan (polycarbonate) is available. Lexan is very tough, it
will stop a bullet. It's also quite expensive compared to
plexiglass.

Joe

--- In Doepfer_a100@y..., "flamey101" <flame101@p...> wrote:
> Hello Florian,
>
> according to one of the plastic-suppliers plexiglass are acryllic
> plates. But you have indeed other, stronger types of plastics, that
> are to be used as burglar-proof windows, called Lexan (quite nice to
> drill holes in I think).
> The thing is that I can only get plexiglass coloured (hopefully
> also "frosted" ,looks nice with blue) .
> The other thing is that I'm not going to make module panels from it,
> just the case. The only mod I maybe want to do on my doepfers is
> replace the knobs for AS ones (and in time the mini jacks for metal
> ones )..
>
> --- In Doepfer_a100@y..., Florian Anwander <Florian.Anwander@c...>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > > I've found a plexiglass supplier here,
> > Think it over. Plexiglass is very delicate regarding scratches. I
> know a
> > guy who had a Formant with plexiglass panels. Every jack that
> didn't hit
> > the plug maid a scratch on the panels, so it looked wuite ugly
> after some
> > time. I would prefer acrylic, but I do not have any experience
with
> it.
> >
> > Florian
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