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

[sporkytherobot]

We used frisbee's but they started to crack, so we are using the tops to 5 gallon tubs. they are working out fine. They save us a lot of money.

[Pin Man]

we bought more... enough for 20 tetras... like 15 bucks a piece or set or something... in the end about 1000 bucks we are wasting for 20 tetras...

[FIRSTnameisJay]

the best stuff to use is just some 1/8'' lexan that you can buy at home depot or lowes the stuff is fairly cheap and fairly nice to cut

[EOC]

We used the plastic from surplus cafeteria chairs. It worked surprisingly well.

[artic_raven]

we use lexan that has been cut out with a bansaw.

[DDRAngelKurumi]

We bought some rubbermaid tupaware ((spelling?)) and cut them.

[Rickertsen2]

some sort of 3/16" grey plastic sheet. Anybody have any idea what kind of plastic this might be? We have no idea where it comes from. Sheets of it keep magically apearing in one of our closets.

[663.keith]

we had some people mold some of the clovers out of the same stuff as the ones in the kit (LDPE if memory serves me correct), and we should hopefully have them today or tomorrow.

[thoughtful]

Our teacher, Mr.Catania tried thin lexine, thick lexine and finally aluminium. He is a craftsman! . He and his guys made great aluminum clovers and they work super too.

[justbobdanish]

we used a freshman....to cut our 1/8'' aluminum....they work fine I guess....

Here at 639, we use 25 layers of stapled construction paper.

[663.keith]

Originally Posted by plutonium83

Here at 639, we use 25 layers of stapled construction paper.

how did you get a staple through 25 pieces of construction paper?

[akshar]

we used a cutting board from the dollar store and its holding up pretty well

[xFlashbacksx]

Our team used like the rubber car mats..those worked really well and we just had two or three of them together.

[jmatocha]

I got a rotary cutting mat in Wal-Mart's craft section. It's a June Tailor brand and purple. I cut it on the band saw, but you could probably use heavy scissors or tin snips.

I started with the kit ones as a template, but found it to be sturdier if I did not cut so deeply between the lobes... I wondered if a triangle would work and be lots easier to cut.