pic: Yeah!! We finally finished making Orbit Balls!!

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by OScubed

Ours will probably be more robust than the real ones. The real ones use a cheap plastic connector that is easily broken. These are pop-riveted together for each strip. Not to say they won't break - just that they're pretty tough. We're actually concerned that these will be more robust than the real balls which is why we're not replacing the few real ones we got so that we can use those for our official "testing".

After making our balls, we wanted to do some testing with broken bands. It took many throws as hard as people could into a concrete floor to get both pop rivets to come out. The Lexan never broke. The same type of throwing quickly broke a real ball. In retrospect, it would have been easier to drill out the rivets, but throwing them was more fun.