Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

Same up here as well. All we've managed to find are a few places willing to do it as a custom extrusion.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

As is also the case in Ohio.

Maybe we're overlooking the obvious thing to do - request that 254 contact their metals source and see if they can offer the material for sale to other teams?

Looking at their robot pic and the sponsors on the side, you might also be able to guess which of them are the likely sources of their metal materials. ;)

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

We buy our 6061 from Coast Aluminum, a chain with a number of locations on the west coast.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

For those in the Los Angeles area,

We order from Coast Aluminum as well they have a warehouse right next to... Mcmaster-Carr!!! Totally a dangerous combination! here is the url http://www.coastaluminum.com/

Though for our 2x1x1/16th we have been using a small outfit in American International Metals in Anaheim. They have been great to the team. http://www.americaninternationalmetals.com/

For those of you out of state I do know these places will ship orders. I would suggest ordering prior to the build season. We ordered a bunch of thin tubed material prior to the season. As we typically use thin walled 1x1 or thin walled 2x1. We know eventually it will get all used!

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

We're going to start doing that. It seems difficult to get 6061 .062" wall 1x1 down here as well without shipping it.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

They also have the infamous 2x2x1/16" wall.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

nice

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

Another Coast Aluminum customer here. Difficult to get a receipt out of those folks. Insanely high prices for small orders too. But, they have what we need and deliver it to my shop floor.

Coast Aluminum for open shapes, Fry Steel for solid shapes (SO inexpensive).

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

Why is that infamous?

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

Its practically the holy grail of aluminum tube. Nearly impossibe to find.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

Hmm sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QTX_...ideo&lr=1&ob=0

Heres this.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

Confirmed, saw it in action today.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

Wow, look who was right? ;)

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

How useful are these (on 1114 or 254)? Are they actually pulling up their alliance partner? Or is it primarily a way to stay together/not tip off opposite ends of the bridge? (Or something else?)

Re: Team 254 Presents: Skyfire
 

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but, I believe, at least in the case of 1114's, it makes double balancing much, much easier. If you look at how it's used it essentially allows one robot to do all of the balancing work versus having two independently moving machines.