People Skills : 4982 Registration date : 2011-03-30 Location : south west pa
Subject: UHMW Good or Bad Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:24 pm
Has anybody messed with UHMW? does it make a strong rail system, defence system ect.
Cody 2000+ club
People Skills : 7783 Registration date : 2009-03-16
Subject: Re: UHMW Good or Bad Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:32 pm
Frisco and West Mifflin swear by it. He likes it not only cause its inexpensive but cause it doesnt always seem to give weapons bite. Some people have used it structurally in 12 and 15lb bots. I was planning on making a steel wedge with a UHMW frame. I think the stuffs kinda hit or miss. If your on a budget its great but if I had the money I would use aluminum before it
jeeves_m_d ULTRA contributor
People Skills : 6022 Registration date : 2009-04-21 Age : 30 Location : Sudbury, MA
Subject: Re: UHMW Good or Bad Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:33 pm
Frisco is definetly the expert on the stuff...
It is great as an ablative armor, meaning that it will flex/scrape before allowing an opposing robot to get a good bite on you
the only problem is that its extremely flexible, so you'll have to go alot thicker than you would with metal but the weight difference allows that too happen
Its a hell of alot easier to machine, keep in mind that you should have plenty of spare parts made because the stuff is only good for a few matches in my opinion
jakerheimer
People Skills : 4784 Registration date : 2011-03-27 Age : 28 Location : West mifflin
Subject: Re: UHMW Good or Bad Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:58 am
the last fight in this video is one of our new bots at west mifflin the whole body is made from UHMW and after those few hits in the beginning we had 2 very small anlmost unnoticable knicks.
Cody 2000+ club
People Skills : 7783 Registration date : 2009-03-16
Subject: Re: UHMW Good or Bad Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:54 pm
jakerheimer wrote:
the last fight in this video is one of our new bots at west mifflin the whole body is made from UHMW and after those few hits in the beginning we had 2 very small anlmost unnoticable knicks.
Its funny cause thats against his teams bot
jakerheimer
People Skills : 4784 Registration date : 2011-03-27 Age : 28 Location : West mifflin
Subject: Re: UHMW Good or Bad Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:21 am
the only reason i won is cause the weapon rod on theirs came out haha i got lucky with that one.
Cody wrote:
jakerheimer wrote:
the last fight in this video is one of our new bots at west mifflin the whole body is made from UHMW and after those few hits in the beginning we had 2 very small anlmost unnoticable knicks.