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Originally Posted by ksafin
Thanks for the quick replies guys, I'll forward all of this to our Mechanical Captain.
While I'm one of the more mechanically savvy guys on the team, the final call is to the captain 
Also, another question/concern. With 80/20, we had the flexibility of just putting a drivetrain together with the parts, and then when we needed to change something or add something, it was a matter off adding a connector or taking this off or adding this. Very simple, with little modification.
I imagine that by using aluminum sq tubing w/ gussets and all, we'll have to plan our drivetrain out much more thoroughly than we did with 80/20 (unless we plan to have a lot of random holes from taking gussets off and on xD)
Is this correct, and how do you cope w/ this? |
CAD, CAD, CAD. As you can tell I'm a CADder. In all seriousness though, the best way to get better really quickly is to start CADding. It allows you to build robots quicker and cheaper. Also in response to not having access to a waterjet, I reccomend that you find a waterjetting sponsor. Any 2d work is really easy to find a sponsor willing to do work for you, because the time commitment is a lot less for them that of a full blown machine shop.