Building Practice Field

[MasterRobot]

ya we just went to home depot and bought some 1" and 1/2" PVC piping....
if you put some hard effort into it, you can kinda get an idea of the lengths you need. i hafta admit though, it was hard to get all the lengths right. The instructions weren't made for people building with PVC.

it isn't rocket science... but it can be confusing

[robotrobot2]

So people are using a lot of PVC pipe to simulate the metal overpass?

[fabalafae]

In essence, yes. It's cheaper and easier to work with.

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by robotrobot2

So people are using a lot of PVC pipe to simulate the metal overpass?

We used iron inside PVC, I believe. Works pretty well, but if it gets hit with a ball the whole thing makes a pretty sweet approximation of a sine wave...

[Jeff Waegelin]

We recycled a bunch of steel pipe and Kee Klamp fittings from old practice fields to build our Overpass. FIRST used to love the stuff for field structures, so we've got several years' worth of it lying around in our building.

[MasterRobot]

a little update on PVC...
we used 1" PVC, and it isn't very strong...
it can barley keep up its own weight, the iron inside sounds good, but we don't have the money. Instead we're going to try putting some sort of rope/cord through the PVC to make it stronger, making it have a high tension to strengthen the PVC