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On 22-Oct-2003, reg (Gfretwell) wrote:

Corian is really pretty tough stuff, I can't imagine how you would break
it.

It almost takes a sledge hammer.


Corian is basically an acrylic without any reinforcement, it is strong in
itself but in the machining it can develop minute cracks that will propogate
almost like glass, if it hasn't been machined correctly.

I'd respectfully disagree. I've sawed it on band and table saw, routed
it with every kind of router bit, drilled it, glued it, sanded it,
polished it, and even put it through a planer. In my experience Corian
and like materials, called "solid surface materials," don't crack.
They *will* break at glue joints if struck with a hammer.

Here's a little thing I did with corian that you might be interested
in. http://www.heuring.org/WhitePlate.jpg For the geeks among us, its
shape is approximately described as the linear sum of five catenaries,
truncated.

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