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Re: Our Robot weight woes.. to rebuild or not to rebuild

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Originally Posted by DominickC View Post
I laughed at that

SuperNerd has some pretty good ideas. I'd also consider swiss-cheesing your top aluminum plate, if not replacing it with polycarb/plywood. The polycarb would look wicked nice, but plywood weighs less.
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Swiss-cheese that top plate, reasonable-thickness polycarb won't support that shooter.
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