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To anyone who has already broken one of these: can you find out what plastic material they are made of? I'm looking for an exact answer (such as acetal, PET, etc), not just something like "Its plastic, duh".
The reason I ask, is that after finding only four of them between two local Wal-Marts, the engineering and New England frugality instincts inside of me rang out. The orbit balls don't look very hard to [re]produce! Using calipers, the interior plastic material is about 1" wide by about 0.1" thick (cannot tell for sure due to felt thickness), and the material they are coated with seems to be identical to the material used on stretchable Book Socks. The plastic (depending on the actual material) should be easily source-able through McMaster, and book socks aren't that difficult to find. If someone can get me an [exact] answer within the next few days, I'll immediately place an order into McMaster to make about twenty or thirty of these balls, and then I'll raid the school supply sections of every store in the area like a loaded refrigerator. |
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They should have an engineering department you can ask right? |
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They are made of 1" polymer strips that are woven together |
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Walmart is everyones best bet.
We bought a few but the material is already coming off. I think this may be a problem |
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the other logical way to get around the problem of unobtanium balls would be to find some sort of substitute (obviously there will be complications but its worth trying) so far i have found this http://www.amazon.com/Rhino-Toys-100...pd_sim_dbs_t_3 good luck to everyone! this is gonna be a challenging season |
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I'm hoping all my concerns about the orbit balls is answered by Monday or Tuesday after corporates have a chance to respond to this increased demand. :/ |
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Thanks Pat McCarthy, team enigma was able to get those!!
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I wish FIRST supplied more of these things. Its now impossible to get some in the kc, ks area.
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To help you find orbit balls at Wal-Mart:
Go to your local Wal-Mart and ask to see an assistant manager, one over toys would be best. Ask them to please look up the UPC code or the Wal-Mart number for you in their Telxon (pronounced Tel Zon) UPC 65838282040 Wal-Mart number 784170 This will tell them if they have any in stock in their store. They can also do a search of other stores using these numbers. They can search in say a radius of say 50 miles (there are over 100 balls in stock within 40 miles of Middletown, Delaware as of tonight. They can give you the store numbers and the number of balls on hand. I then went to the Walmart web site and got a listing of the stores in the area. The store number will print out with each store. I also found that many times not all of the product is out on the shelf. They come in boxes of three so many times they are still in boxes in the back room. It should be noted that this inventory system is not perfect, but is really pretty good at finding product. I also took along a picture of the product when I went to visit the stores to buy them. It often helped the employees find the products once they could see it. |
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