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[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

I think this material is more likely to be helpful for teams that do not already have significant capital into 8020.

And of course I understand the idea is to cut larger pieces down to size. I have been doing FRC (and engineering) for more than a few years! However, I do believe that 72" would be an awkward [read: potentially wasteful] bulk length if that is the only option, for a 1" extrusion.

The 72" length is already set. We chose it for 2 reasons 1) shipping costs for anything over 6ft are extremely high. 2) when teams build elevators, maximizing height is defiantly a factor, so we wanted the longest we could without making teams waste a bunch of money on shipping.

In the future we may offer shorter lengths, but right now we don't have the infrastructure to offer more than 1 length of material. Hopefully we will get feedback from teams who use it (or want to use it) this year and we will look at this for the future.

Originally Posted by ttldomination

This is super intriguing. Even some of the other posts in this thread are pretty informative; I didn't know 80-20-esque solutions existed that were linear motion friendly.

I would be interested to see...

1) The final specs relative to 8020
2) The final price
3) How well this interfaces with the existing 8020 solutions.

I think (3) is of particular note. While this solution seems to "free" teams of some of the restraints of 8020, the same teams have often invested significant capital into 8020.

- Sunny G.

This will directly interface with 80/20. All of your existing brackets and gussets will work. The only thing you might need is a washer, as most of the 80/20 profiles are designed for 1/4-20 hardware and we use just slightly smaller 10-32 hardware.