Anyone else break their track ball?

[BrokenTrackBall]

Yeah, we're not sure how this happened... It could have been from the heater it was next to, or the stray screw that flew at it while being removed from wood... It deflated kinda quickly after it happened though. So now we're not sure if we want to climb the fence to our school's pool to find the hole, or to try to go shopping... We're waiting for a source of track balls to become available online.

Sad thing is we were just finished with our first prototype lift mechanism.

Anyone else in this predicament?

[Fab.Master]

it would seem as though all the "bladder" is, is a Core strength training ball

[Drwurm]

We spent the time after kickoff dropping the thing from about 30 feet outside the Northrop Grumman S cafe.....It's like a rock.

[Mike Schreiber]

It seems that numerous teams are in a similar predicament, because I saw another post earlier where 3 teams admitted to popping them while playing with them (because really, who can resist it's so big and blue...)

Solution = Duct tape

[XXShadowXX]

no we didn't break it, it seemed pretty tough, you guys must have really tryed to destroy it


Good Job!

[BrokenTrackBall]

30 feet? dang, ours didn't go more than like 5

[daftpunk79]

there no way to patch it??????

[XXShadowXX]

they sell these magical thing in hardware stores across amercian, its a called a tire patch.....

i think they should work fine to patch the ball bladder....

[Drwurm]

Originally Posted by BrokenTrackBall

30 feet? dang, ours didn't go more than like 5

heh, the walkway is about 20, but we chucked it about 10 feet up from there. By our professional opinions, it's solid.

[XXShadowXX]

heh, the walkway is about 20, but we chucked it about 10 feet up from there. By our professional opinions, it's solid.

you guys must have really tryed to destroy it

good job

[cicib99]

maybe you over-inflated it

i think we over inflated ours because we cant zipper the cover and we have a small hole in our cover all ready.

our bladder is fine though.

[BrokenTrackBall]

Ok, turns out it was the heater that the ball was next to for an unknown length of time that did it in. Upon taking the bladder out of the cover, two good sized holes became clear, as well as a decently sized bump. Lots of duct tape is holding the air in, but only for short bursts of time. If left alone, the ball still deflates within 10-15 minutes.

[Nuttyman54]

Ours broke after it landed on a sharp piece of metal. There's a nice little pinhole in the cover and the bladder...

[daftpunk79]

Originally Posted by BrokenTrackBall

Ok, turns out it was the heater that the ball was next to for an unknown length of time that did it in. Upon taking the bladder out of the cover, two good sized holes became clear, as well as a decently sized bump. Lots of duct tape is holding the air in, but only for short bursts of time. If left alone, the ball still deflates within 10-15 minutes.

that happened with the tubes to, will they ever give us something in this lifetime we cant destroy without trying or the first day we get it?????

[Drwurm]

Perhaps next year we'll play with diamonds. Let's see a team break those on the first day.