Team 254 Presents: Skyfire

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by sdcantrell56

Finding 1/16" wall 2x1 extrusion in Georgia is nigh impossible. It seems all you Cali teams grab it all up out there.

Same up here as well. All we've managed to find are a few places willing to do it as a custom extrusion.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Same up here as well. All we've managed to find are a few places willing to do it as a custom extrusion.

As is also the case in Ohio.

Maybe we're overlooking the obvious thing to do - request that 254 contact their metals source and see if they can offer the material for sale to other teams?

Looking at their robot pic and the sponsors on the side, you might also be able to guess which of them are the likely sources of their metal materials.

[NickE]

We buy our 6061 from Coast Aluminum, a chain with a number of locations on the west coast.

[kaliken]

For those in the Los Angeles area,

We order from Coast Aluminum as well they have a warehouse right next to... Mcmaster-Carr!!! Totally a dangerous combination! here is the url http://www.coastaluminum.com/

Though for our 2x1x1/16th we have been using a small outfit in American International Metals in Anaheim. They have been great to the team. http://www.americaninternationalmetals.com/

For those of you out of state I do know these places will ship orders. I would suggest ordering prior to the build season. We ordered a bunch of thin tubed material prior to the season. As we typically use thin walled 1x1 or thin walled 2x1. We know eventually it will get all used!

[sdcantrell56]

Originally Posted by kaliken

For those of you out of state I do know these places will ship orders. I would suggest ordering prior to the build season. We ordered a bunch of thin tubed material prior to the season. As we typically use thin walled 1x1 or thin walled 2x1. We know eventually it will get all used!

We're going to start doing that. It seems difficult to get 6061 .062" wall 1x1 down here as well without shipping it.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by kaliken

For those in the Los Angeles area,

We order from Coast Aluminum as well they have a warehouse right next to... Mcmaster-Carr!!! Totally a dangerous combination! here is the url http://www.coastaluminum.com/

Though for our 2x1x1/16th we have been using a small outfit in American International Metals in Anaheim. They have been great to the team. http://www.americaninternationalmetals.com/

For those of you out of state I do know these places will ship orders. I would suggest ordering prior to the build season. We ordered a bunch of thin tubed material prior to the season. As we typically use thin walled 1x1 or thin walled 2x1. We know eventually it will get all used!

They also have the infamous 2x2x1/16" wall.

[Triple B]

nice

[sanddrag]

Another Coast Aluminum customer here. Difficult to get a receipt out of those folks. Insanely high prices for small orders too. But, they have what we need and deliver it to my shop floor.

Coast Aluminum for open shapes, Fry Steel for solid shapes (SO inexpensive).

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

They also have the infamous 2x2x1/16" wall.

Why is that infamous?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

Why is that infamous?

Its practically the holy grail of aluminum tube. Nearly impossibe to find.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by TheMadCADer

It appears that your video link is broken...

Hmm sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QTX_...ideo&lr=1&ob=0

Heres this.

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by Jared341

I would expect them to have something similar to 971 and 1868...a chassis lift skid to let them absolutely fly over the barrier.

Confirmed, saw it in action today.

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by Chinmay

looks like it can do a lot... can it fly?

Wow, look who was right?

[Siri]

Originally Posted by Jared341

I would expect them to have something similar to 971 and 1868...a chassis lift skid to let them absolutely fly over the barrier.

Originally Posted by Gregor01

Hmm sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QTX_...ideo&lr=1&ob=0

Heres this.

How useful are these (on 1114 or 254)? Are they actually pulling up their alliance partner? Or is it primarily a way to stay together/not tip off opposite ends of the bridge? (Or something else?)

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Siri

How useful are these (on 1114 or 254)? Are they actually pulling up their alliance partner? Or is it primarily a way to stay together/not tip off opposite ends of the bridge? (Or something else?)

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but, I believe, at least in the case of 1114's, it makes double balancing much, much easier. If you look at how it's used it essentially allows one robot to do all of the balancing work versus having two independently moving machines.