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Re: The Sally Door

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Originally Posted by cj3958 View Post
WARNING!!! The sally door and the drawbridge are made out of very flexible material(slightly stiffer than 1/32-1/16th polycarb), opening them the way Ri3D did will almost certainly not work. DO NOT make those barriers out of plywood because that is nothing like what it will be on the field.
Actually both the Sally Port door and Drawbridge gate are made of two pieces of .125" polycarb sandwiched together for a total thickness of .25 inches. As noted in several threads (info from the 2016 Field Component drawings).
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