pic: Rivet...Rivet...Rivet

[Wayne Doenges]

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[MrForbes]

My guess is that you'll have 5499 rivets in your robot this year.

[Techgirl675]

Oh goodness...that is far too many rivets.

[lenny8]

Oh goodness...that is far too many rivets.

i think for 1501 its not enough rivets. nine more boxes then maybe :p

[gblake]

Ok, so you are going to use a robot to hold all of those rivets together? That sounds overly complicated. Just empty them into a single bigger box.

[gblake]

Once you melt all that raw metal down and cast it into robot parts, how will you connect the cast pieces together?

[DonRotolo]

...and I was expecting frogs. :D

Just beware those Harbor Freight rivets for high-strength applications; their quality is somewhat less than the name brands. (But for 90% of what we do with them, they are just fine. We just don't use so many....)

[Jason Law]

Glad to see we're not the only ones using Harbor Freight rivets... :)

[Wayne Doenges]

We have never had a rivet failed. Even when a team hit us at full speed three times (before bumpers). No rivet sheared or broke.

[Zanfardino2892]

lol. I have to say. Rivets stand alone above duct tape and zip ties for a lot of purposes

[FIRSTgirl675]

Wow...that many rivets reminds me of my team's 2007 robot. I heard we went through over a thousand rivets between 3 competitions.

[DanaRocks]

rivets are lighter then bolts

[CrashTestPilot]

So what is the weight of one of those boxes?
I went to HB but did not find any details on the weight. So there is 500 in one box?:ahh:

[Cynette]

And all those rivets sure make the robot look pretty! :]

[efoote868]

That's all one robot, or does it include the prototyping / mistakes?
Wouldn't surprise me either way.

[MrForbes]

So what is the weight of one of those boxes?

and how much of that weight is the mandrels?

[Wayne Doenges]

We are planning on building a robot to hold all the rivets together :D

[Dancin103]

We have never had a rivet failed. Even when a team hit us at full speed three times (before bumpers). No rivet sheared or broke.

hahaha those were the days. you had to build a tank basically. :)

[Racer26]

hahaha those were the days. you had to build a tank basically. :)

Bah, hardly... I competed in 2003 and 2004 with chassis made from 80/20-esque aluminum extrusion, and 1" square aluminum tube. No problems... well, we bent the 2004 chassis after a particularly hard head-on autonomous collision, and had to cut a piece out to free up the wheels again.

[Wayne Doenges]

Our 2005 machine was totally Monocoque. Which means we had NO internal structure, just bent aluminum. We took three full court, full speed hits. It bent the aluminum a little, between bulkheads, but did no appreciable damage to bot. Monocoques is STRONG.