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

[Phil Paspalas]

We traced the clovers on old storage bin lids and cut them out on a band saw. Then we made a fixture to locate the circle on a drill press to drill 1/4" holes in 5-6 at once. We used two at a time on each end for strength. Two lids easily allowed us to make 10 tetras.

[ZZII 527]

Originally Posted by Phil Paspalas

We traced the clovers on old storage bin lids and cut them out on a band saw. Then we made a fixture to locate the circle on a drill press to drill 1/4" holes in 5-6 at once. We used two at a time on each end for strength. Two lids easily allowed us to make 10 tetras.

Yep, we cut up some Stack Attack lids as well. Works well.

[Kelly322]

We made a few out of storage bins/totes, but found that they broke fairly easily when we started handling the tetras. We ended up using some left over aluminum diamond plate cut with a bandsaw, and that worked great. You just have to make sure to file down sharp edges, or they can be a bit dangerous.

Kelly =)

[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...

[Shu Song]

We used some high density polyethelene(can't spell), and it works great. We neglected to round off the clovers so they look like Mistsubishi logos.

[Kit Gerhart]

I'm wondering what will be used at the competitions. Ours that came with the kit didn't last long at all before breaking, and the 1/8 inch lexan we made didn't do much better. We now have some thin rusty steel (~1/32 inch) which has held up OK, but gets bent and mis-shapen. If they use the same clovers at the competitions that came with the kit, I hope they have lots of spare parts and tetra "mechanics."