Gracious Professionalism at your local hardware store

[dhitchco]

As discussed elsewhere in this forum, if you're still struggling to find PVC endcaps for the practice field tetras or goals, here's a couple of hints.....especially for the goal units.

1) Use plastic tie-wraps to hold together the corners of the goals. Just drill holes through both ends of all six (6) goal pieces and "thread" the tie-wrap through three poles at each corner. leave the tie wraps loose until the goal is assembled, then "cinch" them up.

2) If you have the PVC end caps but not enough "clovers" to hold the corners together, go look for "pipe strap" in the plumbing section. It is soft metal, comes in a roll and is perforated every 1/2" or so. Just cut into short segments and bolt through three pieces of the pipe strap, connecting each corner of the goal. Bend down the sharp ends too.

[CJO]

If (like us) you are in a rural area, try irrigation supply places, home depot was nearly out, the local irrigation place had like 300 in stock.

[Twstdkittie]

Originally Posted by Alex Salomonsky

This is why I'm glad my teams to only team in Virginia Beach

Yeah, Richmond's got like a thousand teams to compete with. And one of them has managed to swipe a bunch of the materials because there are only so many Lowes' in the area!

[james]

Dudes you dont go to a hardware store for plumbing supplies DUH..

[sciguy125]

We went to home depot for supplies to build vision targets yesterday. We ended up getting the last can of flourecent green paint. I suspect that other teams paid them a visit before us - who else would use it? And to any teams planning to visit the Cupertino, CA Home Depot some time soon...sorry.

[[527]phil]

we'll at home depot it went like this:

Steve: "do you have any 1 and 1/4 inch PVC end caps"

salesman: "your from robotics aren't you?"

Steve: "uhhh, yeah"

salesman: "nope no more end caps, the last team cleared me out"

i don't know how our mentor got some but the next day we had 2 boxes of them lying on the workbench