Team Thrifty /Fifty Build Diary for Bitza

**harry hills** · 30th June 2011, 21:24

or 1mm POLYCARBONATE?

**Mouldy** · 30th June 2011, 21:26

1mm carbon fibre

i use it on featherweights.

**PJ-27** · 30th June 2011, 21:31

Lexan is just a brand name for PolyCarb, didn't want to write the whole name, but here I am....

Can you bend Carbon Fibre?

I need to make a box shape, figured Lexan would be easy.

**razerdave** · 30th June 2011, 21:34

You can't bend carbon fibre in its bought sheet form, but you can buy matting and mould that to the required shape. Josh Valman does mine.

**jonny** · 30th June 2011, 22:24

how bout 1mm makralon

**Team Invade** · 1st July 2011, 20:07

HDPE seems to work well on any type of robot, from AW to HW

And it deflects blows quite nicely

**PJ-27** · 2nd July 2011, 12:46

I'm currently overweight though, I just need an excuse of a cover really. I think HPDE (as much as I like it) will be too heavy.

**RogueTwoRobots** · 2nd July 2011, 12:51

You got access to a laminating machine at all? If so, just run one of the laminating pouches through it and you'll get the flexible plasticy sheet out as a result. It will be far from impenetrable but if it's just an excuse of a cover you need, it could be suitable. Pretty cheap too if someone else has already bought the laminating pouches