Answered: size on plexiglass

[scoobylover2539]

i am apart of team 1879B and my teacher asked me to post on here because we host a league on a question for the thickness of the plexiglass allowed.
we have a team that is using 1/16 inch but they use a heat gun and bend it over it’s self so it’s like 1/8 but we don’t know if that is legal because it’s like they use 1/8 but is it legal?
we kind of need to know fast because we have a match on saturday

[scoobylover2539]

and to add a little more details they bend it over itself so it’s not to pieaces but one single piece

[Karthik]

@scoobylover2539

and to add a little more details they bend it over itself so it’s not to pieaces but one single piece

We ask you to please thoroughly read the VEX Skyrise Game Manual and to please review the Q&A Usage Guidelines before posting in this forum. Specifically, please quote the rule or definition that your question is referring to.

Let’s look at rule <R7f> which addresses the use of plastics.

@VEX Skyrise Game Manual

<R7> Robots are allowed the following additional “non-VEX” components:
f. Non shattering plastic from the following list; polycarbonate, acetel monopolymer (Delrin), acetal copolymer (Acetron GP), POM (acetal), ABS, PEEK, PET, HDPE, LDPE, Nylon (all grades), Polypropylene, FEP; as cut from a single 12" x 24" sheet up to 0.070" thick.
i. Plastic can be mechanically altered by cutting, drilling or bending etc., but it cannot be chemically treated, melted or cast. Teams may heat the polycarbonate to aid in bending.

Thus, you are allowed to heat the plastic to aid with bending, and you are also allowed to bend the plastic over. However, you are not allowed to melt and fuse the plastic together to form a single thicker piece.