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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Just a note regarding the anti slip options for the paint.
We tried two different anti slip paints on the Robowars arena.
The sand type gave good grip and lasted reasonably well - a few events knocked it back to about 50% of the original grit level, but the bots ate a lot of sand and ended up with grindy sounding gearboxes pretty quick. the typical pushing burnouts and so on the bots do rips the sand loose pretty quickly.
The second attempt used a pool surround anti-slip paint with some sort of rubbery particles suspended in it. This was a major PITA to paint. the rubbery stuff tended to go on in globs and needed some serious elbow grease with the roller to spread the particles evenly. No complaints from the roboteers about grit with this paint, and pretty good grip, but it seemed to wear flat pretty quick too.
The last event was painted over the anti slip which still seemed to leave a reasonably textured surface, but with no loose particles, since whatever was left was now being held down by an extra layer of paint.
Given the amount of pushing, sliding, grinding, scraping and so on we do, its pretty tough to come up with an ideal solution.
Perhaps a thin layer of road tarmac would be good ? Find some council roadies with a slab under your arm maybe ? _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:53 pm |
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