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What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
I'm just curious...we only got a few of the clover connecters in our kit, so we needed to make some more. We made some temporary ones out of cardboard and duct-tape
 , but only until we could find something better.Does anyone have any other ideas for what we can effectively make them out of? 
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15-01-2005, 20:44
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
I meant besides lexan...
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15-01-2005, 20:48
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
Our team used aluminum, they work very good.
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15-01-2005, 21:00
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
using a thin cutting board is what the kit uses and it works. you could also use thin aluminum or lexan
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15-01-2005, 21:22
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
We cut up a piece of vinyl siding to make a bunch. It was cheap and is working well to help visualize the actual sizes of the tetras, but it is not going to hold up once the bot starts handling them. We'll have to make some more later from lexan or aluminum.
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15-01-2005, 21:22
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
yeah we're using like 1/8 lexan and one of our mentors used this metal sheets --just cut everything w/ snips and it works.
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15-01-2005, 21:30
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
We got a plastic Mud Flap from a tractor trail from our advisors shop. Tough, easy to manipulate, cheap. any local Truck Shop should have it. Make sure its plastic though ans not rubber.
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15-01-2005, 21:53
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
We used the sheet of HDPE from the 03 & 04 fields. The stuff works great and we have plenty of it.
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15-01-2005, 22:24
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
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15-01-2005, 23:06
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
We used Lexan, and heated it up with a heat gun after making the tetra so it didn't crack and break.
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15-01-2005, 23:42
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
We used Wal Mart. We found small cutting boards for 89 cents, bought most of the stock and brought em back. They were just big enough to cut two clovers out of. so $1.78 plus tax for 4 clovers, bot bad. The only problem was they wrre thick, so we had to use a heat gun (actually I lie, it was a blowtoarch) to melt them. Felt kinda funny after they caught on fire a few times.
-Tony K
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16-01-2005, 14:31
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
My team used .032 aluminum sheeting. It worked great. Thin enough to bend and strong enough to hold the structure together. Cheap and easy to do.
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16-01-2005, 16:46
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Re: What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?
We used some cheap flexible plastic, unfortunately our robot has been making quick work of the connectors, duck tape has become a new favorite.
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