Quote:
Originally Posted by Qbot2640
We typically use screws and nuts to hold the bellypan to the frame, then woodscrews to attach stuff to the bellypan. Something inside me (not sure what) likes having the ability to remove the whole piece if necessary - so I (personally) would not use rivets - but I can see the advantage of not having screws that can come loose. For an easy, but still removable method - self tapping sheet metal screws would work too.
|
We do rivets. I don't think we've ever had to detach a belly pan, but if you do it's just a few minutes of drilling out rivets. With our setup though we have the belt inside the tube so using lots of nuts inside the frame would be a little bit annoying.
If you want to use screws with a WCD belly pan (or really anywhere in / through square / rectangle tube) rivet nuts are probably the best option. We use rivet nuts almost everywhere except where we have to tap. I don't know if this year's robot even has a regular nut on it anywhere. Definitely worth the investment and less of a pain than PEM nuts.