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Originally Posted by Siri
Do you have any advice or books/white papers/etc to recommend concerning designing for 1/16" tube? We're pretty much all 1/8" tube or angle for everything on our bots. I've heard great things about 1/16", but we've warped welded 1/8" chassis occasionally so there's some hesitancy.
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The chassis could use 1/8", but on stuff that doesn't need to be that thick, like the upper structure, 1/16" is usually fine. But it depends on how you design it! We like making upper stuff from 1/16" tube and riveting 1/16" sheet or angle brackets to hold it together, and attach stuff to it.
It's all in the design....