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Re: What materials do you most commonly use on your robots?
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Originally Posted by MichaelBick
How is it possible to make more mistakes with 8020 if you build in a very similar way, however without gussets?
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If you only use 80/20 in this way, you get none of the added utility when prototyping.
The problem, in my experience, has always been the transition from prototype to final mechanism with 80/20 construction. It is very easy for sloppiness from the prototype to bleed through, and it causes failures. Switching to tube/gusset construction forces you to not make these mistakes. There is utility in this.
I think we may have to accept that we're at an impasse, because we're dragging this thread off-topic and drowning out the other discussion.
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