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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace
I think this material is more likely to be helpful for teams that do not already have significant capital into 8020.
And of course I understand the idea is to cut larger pieces down to size. I have been doing FRC (and engineering) for more than a few years!  However, I do believe that 72" would be an awkward [read: potentially wasteful] bulk length if that is the only option, for a 1" extrusion. |
The 72" length is already set. We chose it for 2 reasons 1) shipping costs for anything over 6ft are extremely high. 2) when teams build elevators, maximizing height is defiantly a factor, so we wanted the longest we could without making teams waste a bunch of money on shipping.
In the future we may offer shorter lengths, but right now we don't have the infrastructure to offer more than 1 length of material. Hopefully we will get feedback from teams who use it (or want to use it) this year and we will look at this for the future.
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Originally Posted by ttldomination
This is super intriguing. Even some of the other posts in this thread are pretty informative; I didn't know 80-20-esque solutions existed that were linear motion friendly.
I would be interested to see...
1) The final specs relative to 8020
2) The final price
3) How well this interfaces with the existing 8020 solutions.
I think (3) is of particular note. While this solution seems to "free" teams of some of the restraints of 8020, the same teams have often invested significant capital into 8020.
- Sunny G.
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This will directly interface with 80/20. All of your existing brackets and gussets will work. The only thing you might need is a washer, as most of the 80/20 profiles are designed for 1/4-20 hardware and we use just slightly smaller 10-32 hardware.