Floor wearing away

[Rosiebotboss]

Originally Posted by dlavery

$15 at Home Depot:



Really, just get a "team-owned" mop. If practice sessions leave any marks on the floor, clean them up yourselves and don't leave them behind for the janitorial staff. You will make friends with them, they will appreciate it, and everything should be cool. The staff at our school have been wonderful. We got them involved many years ago with what we were doing. We let them drive the robot around and promised to always clean up our messes before they would ever have to. Ever since then, they have been very accommodating of us.

-dave



.

...and it helps to feed them anytime your team hosts a pasta dinner for a fund raiser like we do. Or leave them the left over donuts......like THAT is ever gonna happen!!

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by dlavery

$15 at Home Depot:



Really, just get a "team-owned" mop. If practice sessions leave any marks on the floor, clean them up yourselves and don't leave them behind...

Oh, c'mon now Dave, we can get a little more high-tech than that.
I won't mention the Scooba since that is the obvious choice, so instead I'll default to mentioning this little 'bot!
http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/01/t...7-swiffer-bot/


Or you can always buy a Swiffer, & hear the song "baby come back" playing in the background while your old mop looks on.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by Booksy

Wasn't regolith a gel coated frp?

The gel would wear for a while before you get down to the fiberglass. Probably the texture is mostly or all gel, and the backing is fiberglass. You could carefully sand a corner of the sheet and find out quickly. It can't be any worse than working on a Corvette! (ugh)

[Cooley744]

Yupp I noticed this problem as soon as we started driving on the stuff. I've gotten figerglass in my hands multiple times already. It hurts pretty bad , not to mention the smell...and breathing it in. The main concern of FIRST will probably be the large amounts of people breathing in fiberglass dust. That CAN NOT be good.

[Carol]

Originally Posted by OScubed

Some links for FIRST Safety to peruse from the CDC:

http://www.cdc.gov/elcosh/docs/d0200...7/d000257.html

Does anyone have an MSDS for the regolith?

Attached is the only one I had found, from a supplier's website.

http://www.sbs-frp.com/products.htm

[JesseK]

The only markings left on our Regolith after testing (particularly the sideways push) were black marks. The black marks won't come off and I believe are the wear of the field. I noticed the wheels themselves had some scratches them, and had a fine powder of something on them. I cleaned them before I investigated it.

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

These spots will be very hard to replace individually because the official playing fields are made of three 8 X 50 foot rolls of this material and not individual sheets that we are using.

where did you get this information? On the field at the kickoff these sheets were exactly the same 4X8 sheets we can buy.....they were held together with what looked like a white masking tape.

[Matt C]

Originally Posted by Stephen Kowski

where did you get this information? On the field at the kickoff these sheets were exactly the same 4X8 sheets we can buy.....they were held together with what looked like a white masking tape.

http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=11095

[Kims Robot]

Originally Posted by Bob Steele

These spots will be very hard to replace individually because the official playing fields are made of three 8 X 50 foot rolls of this material and not individual sheets that we are using.

Actually I doubt it... they will probably repair it like they repaired damaged holes in the carpet... with tape! They mentioned a fiberglass tape that they would secure the sheets together with, my guess is since they feel it is good enough for that, they can use it to patch any damage to the regolith and not have to roll out new sheets. Depending on the wear, they might have to replace the sheets daily, but I doubt they would ever stop a competition for it, just throw some fiberglass tape on there.