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Your favorite meathod of connection
What connection method is the most vital to the success of your robot?
pick one Edit: fixed |
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This question probably needs a little (or a lot) of clarification before you'll get the answers you want.
EDIT: Okay now that this is fixed I can provide a better answer. In my opinion none of these are "better" or "more vital to the success of a robot" than any other, there are correct applications for each of these types of fastening and using each fastner appropriately is the real key. Zip-tying the entire robot is impractical as is welding on your flag holder, for each spot you need to connect two items assess the situation and choose the best method that fits within team capabilities (welding may be out for example) |
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"What connection is the most vital to the success of your robot?"
There are two: the one between the drivers brain and hands, and the one between the coaches brain and mouth. None of the other ones matter if those two don't work. -dave . |
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What about the batteries terminals connections? You can't move without power.:)
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It all really depends...
I'm not going to vote because of this. How would I attach metal to metal: Weld How would I attach wood to metal: Bolt & Loctite How would I attach wires to something: Ziptie I would obviously not say: How would I attach wires to something: very flammable epoxy and weld it How would I attach the wheels to the frame: zipties How would I attach the bumpers: small pop rivets See, this question still very vague. Please fix it. |
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Its hard to repsond to your post without being unGP. Sooooooooo thank you for your input. |
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Welds by far.
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I think you'd be amazed at the number of robots and variety of things on them held together by zip-ties. Without zip-ties, our robot last year would have had a completely non-functional arm... zip ties tensioned all of our arm chains, which sorely needed it, and served their usual purpose - keeping wires out of where they shouldn't be (like crushed between a sprocket and its chain, which happened once). Our electronics cover was also zip tied on. This year, our electronics will be zip-tied on. I have even seen zip ties used as linear bearings (which was a pretty creative use, in my opinion) on an arm. Sure, I wouldn't design to hold my chassis together with them, but I much prefer working with zip ties to drilling out rivets, worrying about messing up the aluminum's heat-treatment, finding nuts dropped on the floor/magnetically stuck to the side of a motor casing, realizing that you epoxied the part in the wrong place (<--happened this week), and whatever annoyances are associated with other fastening methods.
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Our aim high robot was held together with at least 5 pounds worth of zip ties, so I vote for them.
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