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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

A couple of our students have gotten really good at removing and replacing those. If you have a good electric nutdriver, it's not really a big problem. The only issue I see on our team's robot is all the stuff that somehow has ended up mounted to the side plates' flanges.

We attempted a "do not mount anything to the outer plates" rule, but quickly abandoned it when it became clear that there was absolutely no other feasible way to get our roller arm on our robot (it was still hard, though, because the outer flange is inexplicably not at the same height as the inner one). It's thankfully not all that difficult to remove with our current design, but it's still a pain.

Even with an electric nutdriver, it's not something I want to be doing between matches. You should not need to remove a critical structural element of your chassis to get access to the belts or the center wheel. I hope they change this next year.