Our students christened this ball “PACMAN” after a fairly interesting failure…
On further inspection, the two halves were never properly fused - there’s areas at both ends of the “mouth” where the plastic doesn’t show any form of damage.
Has anyone else seen this? So far it’s 1 out of the 12 FUEL we’ve opened and examined.
EDIT: Note, this is after some use - it was unfused in 2 places as shipped, then
Also, my students saw this post, tried to comment, and then gave up when they needed to “register”.
Apparently I should be on Instafacetube, that’s where all the action is.
When I clicked on this topic I expected to see a line of fuel being gobbled up off the floor by your robot with appropriate background music but this is nice too.
I sometimes wonder how much more productive the team would be during build season if Instafacetube didn’t exist.
This would be much better. Someone needs to do this for a reveal video. Except the gear is like an anti-power pellet because it makes everyone chase you…
Our team bought about 200 of these things from Andymark I believe, could be wrong. Anyway I don’t believe we have had any problems with the balls themselves coming apart or anything, and we’ve been shooting them out of our robot to test the mechanism I haven’t heard word of any of them breaking. Where did you get the fuel from? The people manufacturing them might also vary the quality of the fuel.
