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Petey
05-01-2009, 19:27
The flooring is incredibly expensive--we figured out it would cost us almost $1000 to build a practice field.

What are you doing to simulate the low friction environment?
KarlSTA
05-01-2009, 19:30
The flooring is incredibly expensive--we figured out it would cost us almost $1000 to build a practice field.

What are you doing to simulate the low friction environment?

i've heard linoleum (sp?) works well.......also the material whiteboard is made out of seems to work well
KF987
05-01-2009, 20:30
The flooring is commonly used in hotel bathrooms as a cover for walls I believe. Here in vegas many hotels are going up, so if you contact your local general contractor or construction company I'm sure they have pallets of this stuff laying around.

Keaton
scottyh2006
05-01-2009, 20:33
my team has been talking bout the throw away table clothes and we are also getting a piece of the basically what its made out of from home depot
Team1710
06-01-2009, 00:52
Yea we're using stuff from Home depot.
Petey
06-01-2009, 11:39
What stuff from Home Depot?
talltree357
06-01-2009, 11:45
Home Depot in my area sells FRP material (glasliner is a product name) for 27 bucks for a 4'x8' sheet.
Japper
06-01-2009, 12:29
The Home depot material is ~ $25 for 8 sheet around here and our local Menards has something similar for ~ $12 a sheet...

Shop around...
Petey
06-01-2009, 12:29
Home Depot in my area sells FRP material (glasliner is a product name) for 27 bucks for a 4'x8' sheet.

Weird, we got quoted $80 for that. Heading over now to check it out.
Tom Line
06-01-2009, 12:30
Be careful - even linoleum and formica give more traction than the FRP does... you may be surprised if you don't at least buy one sheet and practice sharting and stopping on it.
purduephotog
06-01-2009, 12:56
Weird, we got quoted $80 for that. Heading over now to check it out.

Check Lowes too- our HD said they didn't carry it but Lowes did.
keen101
06-01-2009, 13:10
So, if teams buy the stuff from HD or Lowes, what is the average cost for a fairly good sized driving portion?
jrdude
06-01-2009, 13:12
our lunch room at timken is what we are using it is a very slick surface...
yodameister
06-01-2009, 13:25
Seeing as we are getting another ice storm :ahh: , we will take our bot outside and run it on a sheet of ice!;)
Petey
06-01-2009, 13:25
Weird, we got quoted $80 for that. Heading over now to check it out.

We went there; they'd misquoted us and we got it for $27! Thanks crew!
nitsua60
06-01-2009, 13:36
Ice rink. Not joking.
jrdude
06-01-2009, 15:34
Ice rink. Not joking.

Ice Rink would work... but the ice might crack even if it is a rink a skating rink might be better:D :ahh:
Danny McC
06-01-2009, 16:47
We got all of the flooring for free but we have to give it back when we are done.
amariealbrecht
06-01-2009, 18:36
Some hockey rinks use this same material.
amariealbrecht
06-01-2009, 18:37
Sorry, most practice rinks or shooting areas in hockey rinks use this material..
dlavery
06-01-2009, 19:24
As noted in the January 6 update to Bill's Blog (http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/), a standard linoleum tile floor is a very good approximation of the "Regolith" flooring material. During development, we found that a waxed floor game performance characteristics that were within about 5% of the official material. That seems to be good enough for most development efforts, and should make for a very reasonable alternative for teams that don't want to purchase enough of the plastic material for an entire floor.


-dave



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Geeves
06-01-2009, 20:01
An idea we had was to go to lowes, home depot, or whatever and then contact other local teams in the area and build a collective practice field. With four or five teams sharing the cost, it will probably be easier. Still waiting for the other teams to reply to us, though.