[Tom Line]

Velcro is nice, and fast. But the first, and I mean the VERY first time you have a major failure because the velcro came loose at the worst possible time, you will never use it again.

We use the nylon fasteners. It is a postive connection as opposed to the cross-your fingers with velcro. It's as fast as velcro to install the first time. We also use a product called gatorboard as our electronics board. It's foam sandwiched between two layers of heavy paper. You can poke holes in it with a screwdriver or allen wrench, and it is non-conductive and very very light.

If we didn't get it for free (yes we include it on the materials list), I'd move us to 1/4 cheeseholed lexan because it's non-conductive.

Despite out best efforts during the last invitational match we played in 2007, our chassis was carrying an intermittent 5 volt charge. We never were able to pin down where the leakage was occuring, but since then we'll never use a conductive backplane again.