Quote:
Originally Posted by Tem1514 Mentor
The kitbot with a nicely mounted set of bumpers will take and yes give hits  as it comes out of the box.
Add good solid belly pans is the best place to start. We used 1/4 inch plywood.
But don't do what one of drivers did was to lose control in the school hallway and crash at full speed into a brick wall  without the bumpers installed. That took a hour of body work to get the bent frame straighten out. |
So our 3/4" plywood belly pan, and the 1/2" Alum. bar stock (real bumpers beneath bumpers), actually we needed to extend the frame a half inch in front to get a chain sprocket for the collector just inside the frame perimeter on 1 end, and something much stronger on the other to mount the launching catapult upright to, so we spanned the inside frame rails w/ 1/2" stock there, and built a tank to protect the other tanks inside, (add a blade and eyes on the front, instead of tusks....(or is that the rear?)....it would remind you of lil' Blue "Dozer"), across both front and rear of the kit bot frame should fare OK this weekend? (Who said it should be a really low center of gravity game this year anyway? We did!)
It made us switch from chain and sprocket, to belt and pully for the very 1st time ever. Hope it was the right move.