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Originally Posted by FrankJ
This years game is very rough on bumpers. Irregardless of what the rules say (not to say don't follow the rules as well) your bumpers need to be sturdily attached to your robot. You should be able to pick up & pull your robot around by the bumpers. You are allowed to make pocket holes for bolt heads. Rather or not you should do that depends on how well the bolt heads support the bumpers. It is a judgment call.
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Yeah its gonna be rough out there. We have a whole 2x1 structure mounted to the bumpers above the chassis all the way around the robot, with lots of bolts. We solved the strength issue in other ways because I saw that it was going to be a hard hitting game, and ive seen alot of bumpers bend before.
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