Re: Will plexi-glass work?
 

as everyone else has mentioned, plexi has a tendency to break..well, more like shatter. If someone so much as touches the stuff...Id' hate to be you guys if you had a match in less than a few hours

Re: Will plexi-glass work?
 

Our entire base was constructed of lexan. With this we managed to hold up against anyone who tried to push us off the ramp.

This year our robot used lexan plating on an aluminum frame. We decided to play king of the hill on the chin-up platform. The lexan on our robot is merely scratched. You dont have to worry about it breaking in this competition.

Re: Will plexi-glass work?
 

I don't want to repeat anything that's already been said... so I won't mention plexi-glass and the fact that it is completely horrible for use as a structural component on a robot.

But I will say something interesting: We have a cart we've been working on, which is motorized, to carry the robot around on. We gave our 12" wheels to team #1043 before we realized that we might have wanted them for the cart. (A good move, they made very good use of those wheels). However, to get to the point, we actually tried replacing those wheels with 12" roughly cut wheels of lexan instead. Ugly, but they could withstand the pressure, and weight isn't an issue for a cart. We will end up putting the pneumatic tires on, but the cart would have functioned, we expect, with the lexan.

Re: Will plexi-glass work?
 

For many years, we used laser cut lexan wheels on the robot. They gave us limited slip on the carpet and allowed some side turning for tank drive. We never had one break but they did wear down.