Chief Delphi - chassis weight ?!

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Bduggan04

26-01-2003 14:28

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Originally posted by GregT
If your frame is under 10 pounds and made of legal material, it is not strong enough.

Greg

when I was on truck (68) last year, our frame weighed only 9 or 9.5 lbs and it was made of 1" square stock with a wall thickness of 1/8".

GregT

26-01-2003 15:50

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Originally posted by Bduggan04
when I was on truck (68) last year, our frame weighed only 9 or 9.5 lbs and it was made of 1" square stock with a wall thickness of 1/8".

I didn't say a 10 lb frame would have been ok LAST year, but this year your robot will be running into things on its own for the first 15 seconds.

ngreen

26-01-2003 16:19

Today we put our working chasis, our electronic board, pneumatic board and cyclinders, arm metal tubing, and light on a scale. We better start drilling holes, 129 lbs. Luckily that include a 6 lb plywood board we had mounted the pneumatic system on for prototyping. We think we are going to cut a lot off out the aluminum tubing from the kit that we used one the back. If all else fail, we will be a pushing bot.

Specialagentjim

26-01-2003 21:34

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Originally posted by robohyo
Today we put our working chasis, our electronic board, pneumatic board and cyclinders, arm metal tubing, and light on a scale. We better start drilling holes, 129 lbs. Luckily that include a 6 lb plywood board we had mounted the pneumatic system on for prototyping. We think we are going to cut a lot off out the aluminum tubing from the kit that we used one the back. If all else fail, we will be a pushing bot.

Oh man, the best of luck to you. Just watch your speed holes, you might end up loosing a lotta structural integrity. Com'n, post some pics and let us pick away at hte bot ;) I'm sure someone on this forum will have an idea on how you can cut down on weight.

Matthew936

27-01-2003 17:36

Re: Re: Is ours to heavy

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Originally posted by Specialagentjim
Haha, speed holes, the way of FIRST...What are you using as a material for the chassis? Got any pics we can see to help ya with reccomendations as to what we could do to cut that down?

...and again, "My bot meets Weight requiremnts on mercury"...

lead :D
j/k

we are really using Structural Aluminum Extrusion

EX-2

it is light enough and strong enough it is our other stuff that worries me, sorry Web Page team hasn't posted any pictures yet that i can link you to

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