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Re: Will plexi-glass work?

I don't want to repeat anything that's already been said... so I won't mention plexi-glass and the fact that it is completely horrible for use as a structural component on a robot.

But I will say something interesting: We have a cart we've been working on, which is motorized, to carry the robot around on. We gave our 12" wheels to team #1043 before we realized that we might have wanted them for the cart. (A good move, they made very good use of those wheels). However, to get to the point, we actually tried replacing those wheels with 12" roughly cut wheels of lexan instead. Ugly, but they could withstand the pressure, and weight isn't an issue for a cart. We will end up putting the pneumatic tires on, but the cart would have functioned, we expect, with the lexan.
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