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Originally Posted by AlecMataloni
Although 1/8" material is pretty hefty, you're missing an opportunity to add essentially "free" stiffness to your frame members by only using L shaped metal pieces instead of "C" shapes.
I would recommend that you add a continuous bottom flange to every piece of sheet you have in this photo.
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Originally it was a C frame that was .09, it was changed later in order to give the frame a bit more ground clearance (the location of the module pivot was determined by geometry, which ended up a bit too low to fit a bend on the bottom of the frame and still have acceptable clearance).
We have found this particular frame style to be more than strong enough for anything we will run into for frc.