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Re: Bumper Attachment Design

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Originally Posted by gwin99 View Post
I'll definitely look at reversible bumpers... Does anyone know of a good guide I could look at? I'n not particularly adept at sewing. Also To the issue of bolted attachment points into the frame, would you recommend bigger bolts, more bolts per attachment point (ie 4 vs 2), or something else?
I wrote what I will describe as a really bad white paper about ours. I sew ours for our team. I can't sew. They work every year just fine.

Here is a video from 2013 for how ours work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYTiRxLw7oA

We use 1/4-20 bolts for all attachments. We built a steel bar that ran the length of the robot last year and all bolts went through that into the frame. At the front and rear, we drilled and tapped a steel bar and ran bolts through the frame into that.
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