[TankChain]

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone. We have been swamped with emails, calls and orders. I am working on a few things that I hope will help everyone. We have ordered more raw materials so that we wont run short of raw parts.

Our very first order was actually a FIRST team and I talked with them today and they said they would send me some video of their robot and even try to make a video talking about how they went about combining the track with the FIRST kit they started with. I am amazed with them! They might even have some competition video. But I cant promise anything.

We also are working with our injection molding company to scale up fast and get bulk order made in 3 weeks. I am not sure it is possible, but I am working on the details and hope to know specifics in the next 48 hours. They could make 10,000 parts which would be a lot of kits.

We are also working with teams to provide sprockets. We are partnered with USA Roller Chain and we get a distributor rate which we can pass on to you. Our sprockets are typically about half the price of others.

Also, while it will not help this competition, we are planning a survey / questionnaire about what products to add. Would you like to see smaller track for a #25 chain, or maybe larger track for #40? What about different widths of track? Different tread profiles?

And lastly, we are planning a contest for the design of the track assembly. We have wanted to offer a more complete track assembly with tensions, boogie wheels. We encourage teams that use our track to submit the design of how they used it to us. We will pick wining deigns which we will have fabricated and offered as complete kits. There will be prizes and thank you gifts to all who enter. I am just not sure what yet.

Thank you all for the warm welcome. I have wanted to get involved with FIRST and as we grow I hope we can sponsor a few teams down the road.

As always I am happy to answer questions and help in anyway I can.
Josh