Hello,
Teacher here, I’m cleaning up the classroom and organizing parts at the start of the school year. I have a bunch of these clips that I’m pretty sure are for an old version of battery. Does anyone know of any good uses for these now? If there’s some other application for them, I’ll keep them. Otherwise, I’d rather save the space and throw them out.
Thanks!
Unless those clips are vex legal and can hold newer batteries, there is not much use for them. The only scenario they would be useful in that I could think of is if they are bendy, they could be put in between 2 pieces of metal, and use it as a spring. There are probably better parts your students can use, so I’d just throw them out.
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I’d keep them, they can be used for things other than holding a battery. Maybe the support for an arm when in the closed position? Clip On/Clip off for a sheet of plastic?
I’d work on being inventive with them.
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I don’t believe they are competition legal.
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Hard to say, RECF has been busy rearranging regions and has not had the time to post the current legal parts list. I pinged @ryanosweiler to help get it posted in another thread.
The rules call out the Cortex stuff that is not allowed, but the battery clips are not in that list.
They are still available but not marked as V5RC legal.
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A lot of teams would put the old batteries in those and then wrap a rubber band around the lip to ensure that the battery doesn’t fly off. Honestly I miss those battery holders as I always found that the newer V5 battery clips tended to break very easily.
A good consideration would be to use it as a fit-in-place piece. For example, you can probably deform it slightly to hold screwdrivers, or you can use it to organize power cables below your desk.
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