FPV Gate - Vertical Double Gate (MultiGP Style)

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Another design in my "low weight, little space, one person build" series. A big advantage of these gates is that they don't suffer from impact damage due to their gradual force degradation on impact. They're not the cheapest option but folded up they're the smallest and lightest I know of. Parts of this project can be reused for other gates as well (glass fibre rods, fabric, paracord). For building this project you'll need: - 14x M6x30mm hex bolts and wing nuts - M2-M3 steel cable and a fixing piece (alternatively 3-4mm paracord) - Glass fibre rods: 3x 1.5 meters (each consisting of 3 segments) and 1x 4 meter (8 segments for the top arc) - About 20m Paracord rope (3-4mm) for fixating the gate - 4 sturdy pegs for attaching the paracord - Some fabric for the rods for better visibility - 2x M8x200mm steel rods going into the ground to place the gate on The printed parts were printed with PLA and are pretty impact resistant due to their beefy design. Printing with semi rigid (Hard TPU) would make them tougher, but we'll see in the long term usage/test. One of the 1.5m glass fibre rods is connected with the steel wire to prevent the gate from falling apart. The rest is connected with rubber cord as usual. Assembling the gate takes 7-8 minutes for a single person, so with two or more people it's even faster. Disassembling only takes 4 minutes. How it works: The horizontal rod never gets disassembled completely, only loosened so that the segments can be folded together for compact storage. The vertical side rods are collapsed by pulling them apart (elastic rope inside). After finishing the bottom assembly, spear it onto the M8 steel rods hit into the ground before. Then wind down the gate with the paracord so that it stands upright. To insert the longest rod, loosen the wing nuts a bit so that the printed pieces can be pried apart enough to insert the endpiece. After that, tighten the wing nuts again and you're ready to go.