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What is the Material put on the top of most boxes?

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tprizz399
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What is the Material put on the top of most boxes? Im building a box and neew to find out?
Oct 12 2006 6:28PM
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lyndon
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hockey board material
Oct 12 2006 6:30PM
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Ryno
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Lexan is popular (its clear).

The coloured shit is the same stuff that they use for hockey rink boards. I dunno what they are called though.
Oct 12 2006 6:31PM
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Ryanvdonk
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yep, it's called puckboard.
Oct 12 2006 6:34PM
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Smed193
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use search bar to check

but pretty sure u just use high density polyethelene
can buy here
http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/default.asp

Oct 12 2006 7:55PM
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kabozo101
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lexan or HDPE
Oct 12 2006 8:43PM
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skidemon22
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yea, its ususally some sort of uber high density material, like HDPE
Oct 12 2006 9:28PM
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Enzo
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hdpe works wonders. thats what i made mine out of
Oct 12 2006 10:08PM
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396222687862
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not really, get a 4x2 from www.usplastics.com

cut in half and you got an 8 foot x 1 foot box.
Oct 29 2006 2:11PM
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Riley.
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At Sunday River in Maine they use this stuff they refer to as plood...its a plastic and wood composite that you can find at your hardware store. It works very well. Try is out.
Oct 29 2006 2:47PM
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