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Originally Posted by BigJack
Very well built robot this year. I just have one question. For your wings/catcher, is that bent square aluminum tubing? If so, how did you bend it? Thanks.
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Hi, just completed and survived our first comp day at the Hawaii Regional. Yes, the wings are bent square aluminum tubing 1" x 1", 1/16" thick. We used a tubing bender from Probender.com its a nice air over hydraulic unit and has a manual pump as well. There are many high quality units from different companies such as JD squared. What we like about the probender is that its on wheels, and doesn't need to be bolted to the ground to work. They have dies for all sorts of tubing and has a large capacity. If you get the bender, you will want to look at the Bendtech software which tells you how to layout the tubing and where to place it from the end before bending to make complex shapes. It takes into account the bending radius and springback. I highly recommend them. If we didn't have the bender, we would have welded the tubing at 90 degrees. Saves time. We had to use 6063 tubing as 6061-T6 would snap (we tried). Anyway, sorry we didn't respond sooner. We were prepping for the Hawaii Regional.
Alan Ing
mentor for Team 368