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Originally Posted by Gray Adams
2 questions.
1) Is your 1/4" plate .25", or is it like ours and ranges from .22" to .24"? That made our gearboxes this year a little difficult to get fitting correctly (if you've seen the gearboxes, you know what I mean)
2) Besides custom gearboxes, how else do you use it in your frame? We have a lot more frame right now than I'd like, but I can't see how 1/4" plate would make it significantly better.
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Our 1/4 plate is .250 ± .001. We got it from McMaster, because we actually had to get it CNC milled by our machine shop. We hadn't tried to get a 2D sponsor before the season, but actually right after the end of build season, we got industrial Metal Supply to sponsor us, and they have a laser cutter that we will be able to use for the offseason and any future games. This is just one of the laser cutters that they have available:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k8JGL8Muq4
We use the 1/4 plate for our ground pickup, shooter hood, and elevator gearbox, which we also made custom. This helped to simplify our frame quite a bit. What I was really talking about though, is it seemed like a lot of teams have way more complicated frames than needed. I like using 1/4 plate, wherever it seems like it would be beneficial to use sheet metal, as it has a lot of similar capabilities, and it adapts to whatever you need it for very well.