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Ajax
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SideTrack's arena has 8 panels.
Each panel is about 2000 H x 2500 W

with 8 panels of the same size you could configure the same shape or a square.

Add 2 more panels then you have a rectangle.

Each panel uses 1 sheet of 6mm pespex and a half sheet of 5mm checker plate. Plus frame

With the robots around now, just sliding the perspex into a wood frame that is slotted. I believe that if the pespex was hit, it would flex and pop out of the slot.

The pespex will need to be bolted to the frame.

As well as wood frameing may not be ascepted by the insures.

The netting at SideTrack (please correct me if I'm wrong) is shade sail netting. there are mobs that make to suit..

For sponsors
Chat to a bunnings store. They may be interested.

I'll chat to some of my contacts.
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Get some material about the Brisbane Robowars as an example. Spockie organised a great event that had big public attendance, didn't cause the organisers any problems, got good promotion and reviews in the media and was asked back for the next Brisbane event. Thta's pure promo gold!

If you can show all that and say your event "will be just like that" then the Adelaide organisers will be more interested.
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Hummm I see

The perspecs will probably be as dear as poison Evil or Very Mad ,and I'm not sure how much the steel will be eather because we'll brobably need sh*$ loads of both,then it needs to be bolted togeher some how.

maybe if we could get a company to sponsor it we could offer to but there stickers on the panels on the bottom Question


and what sorta steel should be used? angle,RHS,ect


it would be great to have robowars in SA Very Happy Just what we need,more people wrecking other peoples things Laughing Laughing

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Worth letting you know that perspex probably aint the best idea, will shatter so easily.
Polycarbonate is needed for a proper arena,,, and is even more pricy! Laughing
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Well I'm off to get some payphone boxes polycarb+Al Twisted Evil Laughing

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Worth letting you know that perspex probably aint the best idea, will shatter so easily.
Polycarbonate is needed for a proper arena,,, and is even more pricy! Laughing


You're right, was was thinking polycarbonate but just wrote perspex.

Wrong word in my head at the wrong time.

and the silly thing is I would of got polycarbonate sheets priced.
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How is the polycarb priced? by the sheet or buy a square meter?

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I think it was around $300 per 6mm sheet (2400 x 1200 x 6) of Polycarb...
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At the moment we are treating it like a mirror and looking into it.
I have contacted the people from science week and Ajax has got a price on the polycarb.

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Just wondering if anyone would like to come down to SA for an event?

Because if we were going to look into hosting an event we would need some competitors. . . . for some reason Razz

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if you had it on a weekend id probably fly down for a day or two. although i hear SA is a pretty lame place to be Razz (jkz) heh
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yeah possiblah always good to have fresh ass to kick ;->
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wouid it be possibe to have an outside arena?

Say with those portabe fence pannels and some sort of low buffer inside of that?

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probably, but you wouldnt be able to run anything with serious power or weapons.
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do you get many small pieces of high speed shrapnal? and of course it will have a roof.

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