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Originally Posted by rtfgnow
Has anyone looked at the FTC game piece. It's PVC. No FRC FIRST team has ever had trouble getting PVC.
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Ha! 2005 (Triple Play) used tetras made out of PVC pipe and fittings. Each tetra used twelve 1.5" PVC end caps, and most teams decided to build several tetras and goals.
The result? Every Home Depot, Lowe's, and Sears around us was sold out of those PVC end caps within days of the Kickoff.
This must have set off alarm bells in their computer inventory tracking systems, because about a month later these stores were overflowing with that specific end cap, but by that point teams had already made all the tetras they needed.