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Originally Posted by MattC9
Do y'all have them on your 2011 robot because I would love to see how y'all did that.
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Yes, so you should be able to see them at Anderson next month.
I don't have any pictures available. I've asked the teacher if he does. It isn't hard to imagine though. A small angled bracket is attached to the bumper and the cleco is put in the special pliers and inserted through the bracket and into the C channel and released. Use 3 per side and it is remarkably stable.
The other clamping system we've played with recently is the pin and cam style fastener. We used this two years ago to hold down the back end of our carbon fiber top (hood). The pins attached to the C channel and the cam was attached to the CF top (the front end of this hood was hinged). Getting at the internals was as quick as two twists of a hex driver and lift up of the top.
I've been trying to figure out an efficient way to use the pins and cams for bumper attachment, but the clecos do too well to displace them.