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

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

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

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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.

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

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...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....)

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

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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.

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

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

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rivets are lighter then bolts

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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:

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

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