08-29-2005 02:27 AM

sanddrag

Re: pic: Capital Clash Trophies

Looks good. Were those gears bought? If so, that must have cost something. If not, how were they made and what are they made from?

08-29-2005 02:39 AM

Wetzel

Re: pic: Capital Clash Trophies

From just looking at them, the gears seem to be a solid metal. That said, I don't really know anything other then I was told that 422 made them. Perhaps they could shed some light...

Wetzel

08-29-2005 08:43 AM

robotstoo

Re: pic: Capital Clash Trophies

I can shed some light on this one. 422 did indeed make the trophies for us. The gears and lexan were donated by New Market Corporation, one of their sponsors. New Market makes petroleum additives, and the gears came from test components. They are real and they are heavy. The team had a great assembly line going in the garage of their lead mentors, the Taylors. Cut the lexan, drill the holes, and bend the lexan on one line. The gears were soaked in buckets on noxious chemicals to clean them, then dried, hung up with bent wire coathangers and painted. Then both those lines merged to the assembly portion.

And thanks to everyone who didn't mention that I dated the trophies wrong. My remaining brain synapse had just melted down right before I picked up the plaques.

Many thanks for mentioning the trophies. 422 did an amazing job with them.

08-29-2005 11:40 AM

RoboMom

Re: pic: Capital Clash Trophies

OMGoodness, Dee is posting!!!!
The trophies were so appreciated. They were also a source of conversation for all those button down, chemical ?engineer? types who were wandering through, taking a break from their convention.
Dee and I pooling our brain cells almost make a full deck...

08-29-2005 12:12 PM

tiffany34990

Re: pic: Capital Clash Trophies

Wow! Those are really sharp looking trophies... I think the FIRST folks can make it in the trophy business.. they are great!!

Congrats to all the Winners.. those will look nice in the trophy cases...

08-29-2005 12:15 PM

Joe Matt

Re: pic: Capital Clash Trophies

Those trophies look sweet!