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Re: How to make your robot withstand the beating

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Originally Posted by runneals View Post
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.
That butterfly drive is almost identical to our octocanum setup. Out of curiosity, what did you use for the traction wheel?
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