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by Inihduma.aymar
March 11th, 2019, 5:04 pm
Forum: Boomilever B/C
Topic: Boomilever B/C
Replies: 370
Views: 111230

Re: Boomilever B/C



If it does it’s almost negligible. We tested identical towers last year, heat gunning one and not the other, and they both held roughly the same weight (note that there were about 2 minutes between heat gunning and actually testing)

Did you use gorilla glue to build the towers?

I used ...
by Inihduma.aymar
March 10th, 2019, 12:23 pm
Forum: Boomilever B/C
Topic: Boomilever B/C
Replies: 370
Views: 111230

Re: Boomilever B/C



You can achieve a similar effect to baking a boomi by heat gunning it in the seconds before it’s weighed at competition. This evaporates some of the water in the boomi, but it regains most of its weight pretty slowly. We did this for towers last year and shaved off like .2 grams (which helps a ...
by Inihduma.aymar
March 7th, 2019, 4:54 pm
Forum: Boomilever B/C
Topic: Glue
Replies: 13
Views: 7457

Re: Glue

Just wondering, if you use old gorilla glue (like at least a year since opening), do you know how much the strength will be weakened? Will strength even be weakened at all? (I may or may not be asking from experience :P )
I've been using old glue for a while, seems to be fine. I haven't had a base ...
by Inihduma.aymar
February 28th, 2019, 8:14 pm
Forum: 2019 Invitationals
Topic: West Liberty/Salem
Replies: 37
Views: 16635

Re: West Liberty/Salem



I'm confused......no one ever told me that Solon sends their schedules to other teams :?:
Solon's schedules are typically public on their website. I don't know for sure whether this is still the case.
Not anymore. They stopped doing the table of results and schedules under the “our team” page ...

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