I think the hazard with Lexan is much less "it catches fire easily" and much more "if you finally get it burning, the smoke is toxic".
If you laid the sheet flat on the lathe bed and piled it with blue hot chips you might have a fire hazard. Located vertically where the chips will bounce off, even red hot ones should be no problem. (And I doubt your lathe will be making red hot chips.) On Sun, Apr 21, 2013, at 05:53 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I bought a perfectly good 15" Dell LCD monitor off a yard sale table > several miles out in the puckerbrush a week ago, for a $20 bill. This will > fit over and behind my toy lathe just fine and will reduce my aching neck > from looking up at a 45 degree angle at the 22" tv up there. > > So I ripped the "sits on a desk" bracket off and made a hanger type for it, > and thinking about the potentially hot swarf hitting the LCD, I have gooped > a sheet of .090" Lexan to its face, top edge only so I can air hose out the > area between the lcd and the back of the sheet occasionally. > > But I'm reading hints of a fire hazard they don't really describe all that > well, even when I have read half of every hit I get out of google, seems > everyone is concerned, but no one actually describes it other than the > black cloud of fumes when it burns, are toxic. > > It will be 12 to 14" back of and above the lathe bed, so should I be > concerned that it might be ignitable by hot swarf if I have a carbide tool > charging right along? > > 800F is mentioned as some sort of a high limit on the peel off film. > > Anybody else using it for a similar purpose? > > Cheers, Gene > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! > My views > <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> > See store for details. > A pen in the hand of this president is far more > dangerous than a gun in the hands of 200 million > law-abiding citizens. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- John Kasunich [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
