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Re: Tips on loosing weight (Not spam)

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Originally Posted by BJC View Post
.200 aluminum tubing
You're off by a decimal point, about.

We've used .035 thinwall aluminum for very high stress applications (arm in 2007), it's just really hard to weld...

I believe 469 uses something around the same thickness, in various diameters, for basically everything, with rivets holding everything together. Very very lightweight.

We've used material as thin as .050 and .063 in drivetrains, back in the days before mandatory bumpers (we had no bumpers, they lived).


As to tubular frames, how about this:http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/12949 and http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/12952 (same robot) - Chief Delphi 2000
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