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Re: The age old question - bumper mounting

Team 3467 used angle brackets, with holes on both sides, bolted onto the robot frame with T-nuts pressed into our wood bumper backing. We attached the bumpers by running bolts through the holes in the angle brackets and bolted through the T-nuts into the wood. This idea was great besides the fact the T-nuts would come out of the wood at competition.

We also had one solid bumper on the robot. No individual pieces. This idea was great in theory but after our two regionals, the seams between the sides began to tear.