Frictional Discrepancies

[Paul Copioli]

Tristan,

As far as the gel coat is concerned, both the pebbled and smooth are gel coated. the premium smooth finish has a thicker layer of gell coat. The gel coat is necessary so the fibers don't start poking out of the plastic after the molding. I am certain the pebbled finish is what we want.

[paulcd2000]

i would trust the manual numbers, because andy-mark is talking about "plastic" whereas the manual specifically refers to fiberglass. also, just by looking at the demo robots, i think mu is way lower than .5 otherwise, the robots wouldn't slid the way they did.