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[FTC]: Cascade Effect ramp material

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We just completed our plywood Cascade Effect practice ramp. What is the official match ramp/platform made of though? Is it plastic? Or metal or what? We saw one at Kickoff but didn't think to ask what it was made of...
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Re: [FTC]: Cascade Effect ramp material

The ramp is made of Plexiglas with a red or blue coating. The Tetrix wheels grip well, but it is smooth, almost slick, to the touch.

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Re: [FTC]: Cascade Effect ramp material

It's an aluminum clad plastic. I think many sign shops will carry it, but the plastic shop I was at today called it polymetal - eg http://www.nudo.com/p_polymetal.php. Same stuff the base of the center structure is made of.
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Re: [FTC]: Cascade Effect ramp material

I can confirm that the ramp I helped assemble at kickoff was aluminum-clad acrylic.
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Re: [FTC]: Cascade Effect ramp material

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I can confirm that the ramp I helped assemble at kickoff was aluminum-clad acrylic.
It is almost for sure not acrylic-that is much to fragile and also does not look or feel like the black stuff in between the aluminum. It is probably a product like this one: http://www.regalplastic.com/display-...um-clad-panels
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