Team Standards Design

[Elgin Clock]

What are you folks using for the actual vertical & horizontal poles to meet the 1/2" OD criteria?

No PVC pipe is exactly 1/2". The closest I found was very flimsy hot water tank material. (Pex).

I think I've finally come to the conclusion that we should resort to using 1/2" OD wooden dowels to meet all FIRST criteria.

Am I missing something or am I heading in the right direction??

[billbo911]

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

What are you folks using for the actual vertical & horizontal poles to meet the 1/2" OD criteria?

No PVC pipe is exactly 1/2". The closest I found was very flimsy hot water tank material. (Pex).

I think I've finally come to the conclusion that we should resort to using 1/2" OD wooden dowels to meet all FIRST criteria.

Am I missing something or am I heading in the right direction??

I drilled a thru hole for 1/2" PVC schedule 40 pipe last night and 13/16" was a snug fit - pipe is measured based on inside diameter.

I suspect we'll see either be 1/2" dowel or 1/2" OD aluminum tubing from a lot of teams.

[bmire3206]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

What are you folks using for the actual vertical & horizontal poles to meet the 1/2" OD criteria?

mcmaster.com has a whole bunch of 1/2 in OD material you can look through including pvc.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by bmire3206

mcmaster.com has a whole bunch of 1/2 in OD material you can look through including pvc.

Not sure where you are stumbling across those.
Even pvc pipe named 1/4" is coming up with a .540" OD dimension.

I just bought some Oak 1/2" Wooden Dowels for use on ours, and we'll make a custom fitting to attach the 3 poles (2 horizontal & 1 vertical) together with our EXOCYCLE 3D printer we received last year through the FIRST linked donation.

I cringe every time I see the Standard criteria drawing since there really is no fitting to link 3 poles together like the way shown in the "sample".

I also think a lot of teams will (mistakenly) be making their standard out of "1/2in." PVC pipe not realizing it's the ID dimension, and not the required OD dimension.

We shall see...

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

I also think a lot of teams will (mistakenly) be making their standard out of "1/2in." PVC pipe not realizing it's the ID dimension, and not the required OD dimension.

We shall see...

The good news is that if the ID is at least 1/2 inch, there's an easy fix by using a 1/2" dowel and possibly a few wraps of tape.

[Sqrgz]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5n...ew?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5n...ew?usp=sharing

This is our team's design. The gray area at the bottom will be chainmail.

[GMeyer]

Our team designed this double-sided standard, with these dimensions. Also, just so Starwarsguy2 (and others) know, I've already started a thread similar to this one.

[jordannlove]

Here's our team standard this year; we have different shapes for the front and back as part of our design. I'm happy with how ours turned out and how others are looking! They'll definitely be an exciting visual implement for the game this year.

[DictatorMarin]

This is the crest-like image I designed for my team's standard. Everyone keeps saying it reminds them of the communist hammer and sickle, which was unintentional, albeit still a cool comparsion. The omega is a symbol we commonly use, as we are Team Resistance, and the roman numerals add up to our team number, 86.