What does your team use to make the clovers for tetras?

[Anchi]

1/4th" lexan and a heat gun

[Jeff Pahl]

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.

[Bcahn836]

We also did ours out of vinyl siding but we didn't have enough so we used the linoleum flooring stuff, works very well and is easy to manipulate

[Bcahn836]

Originally Posted by Bcahn836

We also did ours out of vinyl siding but we didn't have enough so we used the linoleum flooring stuff, works very well and is easy to manipulate

So far the linoleum has held up and hasn't broke. the vinyl siding we were using did break even though we used about 3 layers of the stuff.

[cire]

We wasted money and bought the ones from IF, And we managed to break 5/6 tetra's the night we made them. Thanks for all the idea's, I dont think we want to buy any more of them

[Eria4044]

Our team uses only the most cutting edge technology in it's tetras. Mainly bolts and glue. It works surprisingly well.

[JakeGallagher]

We used the flanging that plumbers use to hang pipes from ceilings, I don't know what you would call it, but here's a link:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...t=cheap+tetras
I posted some pictures in there.

[Winged Wonder]

wow, there are a lot of creative ideas for tetra-making. we made clovers out of lexan and aluminum... it it seems like regardless of what they're made out of, they always end up getting broken. i think i've broken two goals, and at least 10 tetras... (well.. i keep breaking the same tetras, even though they fix them differently every time) i think we eventually had to resort to creatively used zip ties once...

i wonder how many tetra casualties there will be at competitions...

[tiffany34990]

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.

[PVCMike]

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.

[Joe Menassa]

We used the sheet of HDPE from the 03 & 04 fields. The stuff works great and we have plenty of it.

[Andrew Schuetze]

Originally Posted by JoeM121

We used the sheet of HDPE from the 03 & 04 fields. The stuff works great and we have plenty of it.

I'll ditto that. I think we began using that last year as scrap for projects and we pulled some pieces out of the junk bin and it works great. In fact, they almost have the same qualities as the kit clovers.

[KTorak]

We used Lexan, and heated it up with a heat gun after making the tetra so it didn't crack and break.

[Anthony Kesich]

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

[RoboCat05]

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.