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Originally Posted by AustinSchuh
By railed, do you mean a classic WCD chassis? We have lots of sheet metal sponsors, and a large amount of experience working with sheet metal. We build robots that play to our strengths, and this chassis does. By building a big tube instead of 2 rails like the old AM chassis, we get a lot more structural rigidity. It is quite hard to flex one of our chassis. Our wheel tensioners are designed such that the act of tensioning the wheels locks the shaft into the frame, so it really isn't very hard to get the wheels out. The wider wheels and wider body tube lets us flip the CIMs over the wheels, which opens the belly pan up significantly.
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I meant something like
this, but I think you answered my question. I don't quite understand how the tensioners work; can you post an image of them in action? Also why not exact center to center belt?