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Re: How to make your robot withstand the beating

Our chassis survived the year pretty much unscathed. We machined ours out of tube aluminum stock (which can be found on McMaster & local aluminum retailers). This provided rigidity, along with a place to safely put 2 Clippard Air Tanks & our drive train modules.
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