Dunno if John will get chance to reply as he out of UK, i know he has net but meh.

Roaming Robots can and still has the 10mm polycarb to make a FW Full spinner arena. We use some of the 10mm sheets for the big arena even instead of the 6mm that is only needed for the main events.

But it will be too much hassel for the type of shows we do at the moment and weight for a HW arena to be built from it from 10mm. Well its not the 10mm which is the problem - its the roof.

The roof has to be at least 6mm poly. Small arenas such as Robo Challenge and the Modifed Roaming Robots arena is fine and the structure can be amde to take 6mm poly +.

But when you have a bigger arena like the Roaming Robots arena and Robots Live Arena, its very hard to make a structure which is light and strong enough to take the 6mm poly. I know the Robots Live trussing rig wont hold a 6mm poly roof, and ours will only just hold it but its soo much hassel to get the poly up there in the first place

Hence why we can only have netting at the moment which is fine for Class 3 events.

Like grant said the DRG arena is small but is only main HW spinner event. If they can make it bigger- great! But also the arena is not rasised so no Pit etc? If im correct or not?

I personaly think the Robo Challenge arena is too small, is it 4m by 4m? Though Its fine and i think its the best FW arena for full combat feathers. Though i think the INNER arena walls are too low - hehe sodding flippers.

Its not the polywalls which is the problem, its the roof, and a good move was made i think to have polycarb roofs but putting 6mm polycarb roof up there for FW Spinners to allow to run at the big shows is too much hassel and takes up too much time and weight.

I dont think its the ££££ for the full spinner arenas, its the time and labour to do it for the 1 day and 2 day shows. Im sure if the RoboChallenge was twice the size, Grant and James will have kittens. LOL!

Well thats just my take on things, been in middle of alot of the chats about this area, yeah im gutted we dont get FW spinners at the Roaming Robots events main shows, but i know what the crew go through to put the roof up we have now and moving the ODD 10mm sheet we use around. 6mm Roof and 10mm walls, hmmm big big difference in time and labour to move things around. Also extra truck needed for the extra weight means extra running costs, so it dont make the big events viable sadly.

Adrian if you want to hire an extra truck and come with 5 labours your more than welcome to help us put up the Class 2 arena at all the events. hehe

Mr Stu

(Message edited by stu on May 29, 200