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  • Vintage Acrylic

    Concerted rummaging in the Basement Warehouse produced some rather old acrylic sheets:

    Acrylic Stockpile
    Acrylic Stockpile

    Washing with detergent and denatured alcohol cleaned off a lot of grunge, but the yellow tint says it’s been around for a while. In fact, It Came With The House™ when we bought it three decades ago.

    One sheet was a status board in an automobile machine shop:

    Vintage Acrylic Sheet
    Vintage Acrylic Sheet

    So, yeah, that might be 70-year-old acrylic.