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Re: pic: What about this???
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Originally Posted by Nazir Laureano View Post
Our is made of alluminium, but I don't know the size of this. Please, Help us!!!
Is better we stop of this plan and start other one??? And what about the weight of this
By the looks of it, it appears you are using 1/4" aluminum plate (I may be wrong).

With the height of the drive base, the amount of plates, and lack of pocketing to save weight, this will be a very heavy drive base. You can fix this by making the drive base shorter, switching to a thinner wall aluminum plate and adding standoffs, or pocketing the drive plates so they weigh less.

I would talk with your team about weight budgets, and try to give yourselves a weight estimate for each subsystem and see if your current configuration will fit into the drivebase's weight allotment.

Also as a sidenote, this is in CAD so you should be able to get a weight estimate right in the CAD software to let you know approximately how heavy it will be.

Good luck, feel free to ask any other questions you may have, I'm sure many others can help as well.

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