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Originally Posted by yash101
I don't. However, the volunteers are amazing, efficient and know how to set up the field. They probably know how to set up the field already, so that it is just a jigsaw for them.
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Yes and no. Some of the field is pretty standard--the siderails could go together in about half an hour for the pair with a novice crew and one experienced person, faster if everybody had experience. The problem comes when you start attaching stuff to them. That's when life gets absolutely miserable. The game-specific stuff, you probably have 2-4 people who know how to set that up, and they're leading the operation.
If the AZ volunteer coordinator is reading this, I think someone just volunteered for setup or teardown or both...
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That was an example. These fields would be made much stronger than that. Maybe some sort of plexiglas or acrylic, etc. could be used. A rubber gasket could seal the walls together.
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And how do you expect the fields to be easily portable then? If you've ever been to an aquarium, their tank walls, particularly on the deeper ones, are on the order of a foot thick, with a glue-type seal around them. I could do the math on how much pressure the wall has to take for a given depth--that's not too hard--and then how thick it would need to be for an adequate safety factor--again, not too terribly difficult--but then figuring out assembly is going to be tough.
As far as distilled water goes, I'm thinking maybe de-ionized water may also be an alternative, and a more practical one at that--but that does involve getting the proper equipment to each venue, and then draining the water every now and again to get some more de-ionized water in.
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