I have 2 teams building Swish and I’m finding some parts aren’t available outside of ordering the entire kit. They don’t seem to be available in the spare parts list. Am I dense and am simply overlooking the item or do they not exist outside of the entire kit order?
The 2 parts we’ve come across so far (there could be more):
228-2500-1258 Quad 2x Wide, 2x2 Corner Connector
the triangle that seems to not even be on the official Swish list I found on another post. It’s in the assembly instructions but not the list. I really don’t want to order an entire kit just for a few triangles
These parts are on the Vex Website, you just need to buy “packs” for many of the pieces. But for the Quad 2x Wide connector piece, I also could not find any of those on the Vex Website. From what I have seen, no robots actually use all 4 sides of the connector. You could probably make do buying this pack
The parts I mentioned are NOT included in any of the "Add-On Pack"s. There’s also the 2 x [odd number] parts. Only 2 x [even number] parts are included in the Add-On Packs.
It’s very odd VEX is selling kits with parts that can’t be replaced outside of ordering an entire kit.
Make this the engineering part of the challenge, what parts can you sub in for the missing parts.
The triangle is harder, it was a field element part a few years ago, a local team may have some of those you can borrow. I’ve given about 2 dozen away from my sets