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Originally Posted by Electronica1
What thickness sheet metal are you using? Also, do you need the outer wheels to be live axle, or would dead axle work?
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Most of the sheet metal is 1/8" with the exception of the cylinder mounting brackets and the bracket between the inner flanged sheets and the front/back 1x2" tubing (.090"). The outer wheels could be dead axle, we actually did so for the earlier version of this design (which we built:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...readid=131485).
I'm thinking keeping the axle type consistent would be preferable for machining purposes, but that does mean a bit more mass is being directly driven by the transmissions.